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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, returns to face an ancient, Medusa-like curse in her twenty-sixth adventure. Fans of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice will delight in this series by Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton.

'I've never read a writer with a more fertile imagination' Diana Gabaldon

My name is Anita Blake, U.S. marshal and vampire hunter. But this time, there's a monster that even I don't know how to fight . . .

A remote Florida island is the perfect destination for my best friend Edward's wedding, and a much-needed getaway for me and wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel. But it's not all fun, games and bachelor parties. Micah has unearthed a horrific new form of lycanthropy down here - a Medusa-like curse that turns its victims into a mass of snakes.

The last thing I need is more drama, but when women start disappearing in this tropical paradise, my own friends and lovers become the prime suspects. I can't fight this one alone and am ready to accept help from even the deadliest of places - help I know I will regret.

If I survive at all.

Readers love the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, series:

'Anita Blake novels are my addiction'

'Fantastic! Unexpected! Intriguing! Full of love, relationships, action and adventure'

'Vampires, zombies and guns, oh my!'

'I couldn't love Anita and her adventures with the supernatural community any more'

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'Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field' - Charlaine Harris

'Anita Blake is one of the most fascinating fictional heroines since Scarlett O'Hara' - Publishers Weekly

'What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel' - USA Today

'A hardcore guilty pleasure' - The Times --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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'Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field' - Charlaine Harris

'Anita Blake is one of the most fascinating fictional heroines since Scarlett O'Hara' - Publishers Weekly

'What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel' - USA Today

'A hardcore guilty pleasure' - The Times --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Publisher : Headline (7 August 2018)
Print Length : 498 pages
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Another story set in my favourite vampire hunter's world

Reviewed in Australia on 8 September 2018

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I'm not proud of it but sometimes, not always, but sometimes, two characters in a story will come together that just make me shake my head and say no - just no!
Edward and Donna were such a couple for me, mainly because I'm a huge fan of Edward's and really didn't think that Donna was near good enough for him.
So it was that when I sat down to read Serpentine I thought that I would going to end up depressed and kind of bitter but as I read along, I began to see what Edward gets and needs from Donna and just how much he loves his family.
So it was that at the end of the book, I just found myself wanting more.
I have loved every single book in this amazing series, have fallen in love and lust with many characters and desperately hope that there will be more, many more stories to come in this delightfully addictive series.

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A great read

Reviewed in Australia on 29 August 2018

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4 Stars
My personal rating system

1 Star Couldn't finish the book
2 Stars Didn't really like the book, but was interested enough in the story to finish (Skipping great chunks)
3 Stars The book was okay, finished it and will consider reading more from the author
4 Stars Really enjoyed the book, will check out others by this author
4 1/2 Stars Loved the book, will immediately check out others by author, if asked will recommend book
5 Stars LOVED the book, will immediately check out all others by author, will pre-emptively recommend book to ALL my book friends

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will be checking out the authors other books looking for more of the same. A little too much relationship, and a bit too little action to be a 5 star, but still very enjoyable.

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Serpentine did not stretch to the plot line

Reviewed in Australia on 31 December 2018

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I loved that the characters are evolving. That every time you pick up an Anita Blake book, the people have grown h ave changed some for better others for worse. Its not like they have e nothing better to do then wait around on the author to develop their personality. Its not a static universe.
People talk about authors and how some are great at world building. But no one ever talks about world building and characters progressing together. I love that there was limited sex and more story.
I enjoyed reading about Donna and how very human she became in this book.
The book was title Serpentine I would have liked to see some more plot twist. Towards the end with Chloe it seemed a bit obvious.

But then again it just might be that I recently re read the entire series and so was better able to prempt the author.

I like how the other characters are working on themselves esp M.A.N. Micha Anita and Nathaniel and Nicky.

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Christine

Finally the next book!

Reviewed in Australia on 18 January 2019

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Feels like an eternity since the last book, couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this was out. Thankfully there was not just porn most of the way through, but Anita working with the other marshalls. im looking forward to when Anita and Jean Claude get married, hope it doesn't take years.

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SammyB

Speechless

Reviewed in Australia on 6 September 2018

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I loved serpentine and I love the series, if this is your fist look at Anita Blake, please read from book one, the journey is amazing and you will appreciate this book so much more.
Congrats Laurell on another amazing book!!!!!!!!!!

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Same style and subjects as LKH’s last 10+ books

Reviewed in Australia on 12 October 2018

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If you like her previous books, you’ll like this one

Lots of violence, sex and drama. And introspection.

Five stars because if you’ve read this far into the series this book is still the same style, and you’ll read it too.

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Colleen Westaway

Awesome!

Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2018

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What can I say. Anita and the gang, love them. I have read and enjoyed every book in the series and have never been disappointed! Waiting to impatiently for the next in the series!

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Great series to read

Reviewed in Australia on 27 April 2019

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I have read all the Anita Blake series it’s amazing how she can get better with each new book great read

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gaeilicgal

Filler, repetition of themes and character descriptions...so much filler.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2018

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When I started this book I had such high hopes. The set up with Micah helping a cursed family and the backdrop of Edward's wedding seemed to be revving things up for a great story. After Crimson Death and Dead Ice both showed hints that the series was going to include more mystery/thriller and crime/procedural elements again I had begun to hope I could return to this series with a happy heart....alas it was not to be. The beginning and the very rushed end, where Hamilton realized in the last dozen pages that she needed to resolve things, felt like a massive info dump followed by an uninspired "action" scene. If you read the start and the end and skipped everything in between you would be getting the best of the book. The repetitive, word count bumping, descriptions of the same characters physical descriptions were back with a vengeance. Some repetition is needed for new readers or to remind those of us, like myself, who dip in and out of the series, yet this book is excessively filled with it. Furthermore, Anita's interpersonal relationships once again swamped the story. Characters who are supposedly adults, acting like children or poor imitations of 2D characters from the worst of the Jerry Springer show, ate up page after page with hysterical high school-esque drama and the same arguments we have been hearing book after book. There was actually a line which referenced Anita and Nathaniel thanking God for therapy as though they had had some great off page emotional and character growth...um, no.

Nathaniel's behaviour was tedious and the dialogue of a lot of characters felt stilted. What was meant to be in depth conversations about their relationships with Anita, whether it was Donna, Edward, Nathaniel or Micah, came off as yet more filler or repetitions of conversations and personal problems we have sen in multiple books before.

Even the return of a well loved frenemy in the series could not save this book. The character in question had little impact beyond the surprise of their arrival. Thereafter, their presence was underwhelming...and don't even get me started on the tacky pet names they ended up having for each other at the end.

The set up was great, Greek myths, a terrible disease, a wedding backdrop, an amoral cop with a strong psychic talent and then a murder and kidnapping followed by a show down with a big bad. That list of elements has all the ingredients for a great story. Pity about the poor execution and the filler.

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Wow how did an editor let that pass ? spoiler alert if you can call it that.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 September 2018

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I have thought long and hard about leaving a review. This is not Anita Blake as we knew her. LH has gone off on a jolly, at a tangent, off piste completely. How the story got passed for publication as good enough I don't understand- as to me it reads like a first draft with so much wrong with it where do you start? As for the big scary Otto - what a story line missed and thrown away !! Anita leaves him alone with a child 2 mins after meeting him...then further in the 'four horsemen' torture a witness with no build up to say that she is a conspirator and the main event wrapped up super quick.... I can put up with repetition as long as the story line is there Christene Feehan is formulaic and Nora Roberts but they are good - Illona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Kelly Armstong brilliant - Nalini Singh, Faith Hunter , Elizabeth Hunter, Karen Chance, Ann Bishop, Tanya Huff, Charlaine Harris, JK Ward, Rachael Vincent, Dannika Dark, Gaiil Carriger, Stacia Kane all have interesting characters / worlds and page turning voices ....
I read others reviews of this book - did not buy it when it came out (as is usually pre ordered) - paid the exorbitant price 13.99 kindle edition ! - and was so disappointed. I may be getting more selective as I am older ? But I don't think so this book is a stinker sad to say. 31% of my kindle and Anita was still debating how to integrate the new guards ...........?!?!?!? I am really sorry to leave a bad review as I am a huge fan of the series but I must agree with other people that LH has lost her way with this series.

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penance

Yet more utter useless drivel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2018

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Every page is like the page before it, there is no originality. The dialogue is the same, the same issues, the same phrases, each book is exactly like the last, only the locations are different. Totally predictable, poor writing, no imagination at all. Boring tepid unimaginative drivel. How could a writer be so inane that the reader is finishing their sentences and those of the characters? The horror and metaphysic elements of this series was great in the beginning. Now it's all just so very very poor. A true waste of money and time, again. I've learnt my lesson, never again will this crap lazy unimaginative writer and her toxic capitalist publisher get anymore of my hard earned money.

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That’s it, I’m done....

Reviewed in the United States on 11 August 2018

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I used to absolutely love this series. I discovered Laurel around the time of Blue Moon and she quickly became my favorite author as I read that novel and her previous offerings. I had always anxiously awaited all of her new books with child-like glee, but lately that glee has turned to apprehension.

It seem lately like I’m struggling to even get through her books. I don’t feel the connection with my long beloved characters that always made it such a treat to throw myself into the latest story.

The novels have become redundant, and frankly, boring. Most of the pages are spent on the mechanics of living a “poly” lifestyle and so few are left to the actual plot that it’s a difficult slog to move forward in the story. I’d long ago accepted that I had to wade through numerous “by the numbers” sex scenes to actually progress in the storyline, but I’ve found I’m unwilling to do that with so little payoff anymore.

The plot lines and action seem to have almost disappeared from this series and I don’t even recognize the characters anymore. It’s become frustrating to force myself to read through the boring cliche “poly relationship” talking to death to get to a short part that is remotely interesting.

The last several books have just been rehashing the same things over and over and it’s gotten so cliche that I kind of want to make a drinking game out of it. Anita has a problem with a security guard because they don’t see her as being as dangerous as her bodyguards? DRINK. Hearing about how Anita likes to go down on men when they are “soft”? DRINK. References to “our shared boy? DRINK TWO! (At one point I literally rolled my eyes alone in my bedroom after reading another uttering of that phrase). How about “our sweeties”. Ughhhh. DRINK. Someone is pissed off at Anita because she doesn’t pay enough attention to them? DRINK. Some girl is jealous of Anita? DRINK. You’d probably have alcohol poisoning at this point, so I should stop.

Everyone has their breaking point and apparently this is mine. I won’t be purchasing any future books from Ms. Hamilton. I’d hoped she could listen to her fans and get back to what made her series so successful in the first place, but it doesn’t appear that it is going to happen.

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K. Watson

Dull, dull, dull....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2018

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My least favourite of this series so far. I found it lacked the usual page turning plot, drama and any form of sensuality. Considering how much i usually enjoy these books and have read the series more than one, this book will not be on my read again or recommend to a friend list. Lots of very repetitive descriptions of the physical attributes of the characters which we have heard in all the other books, the only character development seemed to be Nathanial becoming less attractive by the minute. There was so little story that I do not think it would be a problem to skip this book entirely and hope the next is back on target.

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