Affliction

An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis

Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Micah’s estranged father lies dying, rotting away inside from some strange ailment that has his doctors whispering about “zombie disease".

Anita Blake makes her living off of zombies - but these aren’t the kind she knows so well. These creatures hunt in daylight, and are as fast and strong as vampires. If they bite you, you become just like them. And round and round it goes...Where will it stop? Even Anita Blake doesn’t know.

©2013 Laurell K. Hamilton (P)2013 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“Long before Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series and Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, [there was] sexy, strong-willed vampire hunter Anita Blake.” (USA Today)

“Laurell K. Hamilton is the reigning queen of the urban fantasy world.” (Midwest Book Review)

“Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.” (Charlaine Harris)

love it

I love this book series LKH is an awesome author with an incredible mind. I love all of her books.

Favorite

This is one of my favorite books. I love when I've been to a place where the story takes place. It makes it much more enjoyable thank you for having such a wonderful series

absolutely loved

As with the rest of the books in this series I absolutely love this book and it is one of the longer ones however there is not dead time in this book as with much of her writing Almost everything counts

Missing Cynthia Holloway

To me Cynthia Holloway (sp?) is the voice of Anita Blake the new reader is ok but nowhere near as good as Cynthia. I don't know why they have added music and sound effects to the book but it detracts from the story. I found it annoying to have the noise competing with the readers voice. I get it's supposed to add drama and intrigue but all it does is annoy especially since the readers voice is not strong.

Much better than the last ione I thought.

What did you love best about Affliction?

That we got to know Micah better although it still seems to me Micah and Nathaniel have more love going on than Anita and Micah.

What other book might you compare Affliction to and why?

Any of her previous way back novels when she didn't always know who it was causing the problem and exactly what to do about it.

Which scene was your favorite?

Any scene with Wicked and Truth sorry they are just like the Vampire pair to dream about lol.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Not really an extreme reaction but I am kind of thinking she needs to calm down on the BDSM play because she doesn't really make it sound like she knows what she is talking about in that area, or perhaps she has not figured out how to explain the feelings very well of pain turning into pleasure but it just strikes me as very book learned.

Any additional comments?

Well with her being sick all the time I kind of thought they were going to try and have her become pregnant. Hey I know she could go on Maury for who's your baby daddy lol. Seriously though I am a true fan and will be waiting for the next book, really hate these shadow characters and hope we don't have whole stories written around Jade and Dev there are to many people in this series and I really don't care about adding two more to memory.

the Narrator got a lot of the voices mixed up as to who she was supposed to be a lot and I could hear a bit of background noise. Could tell when she took a break and came back. It just wasn't very smooth this time.

greay

loved it. love laurels. love Anita. love all the characters. thank you.

BEST OF THE SERIES!

This is the absolute BEST of the Anita Blake stories. It has love, action, killer-zombies and really takes the time to dig deeper into many of the major characters. This book has real feelings and a new understanding of everyone's relationship status, surrounding our favorite Necromancer/Leopard Queen/Vampire Hunter. Romantic surprises are around every corner, so are the bad guys, too. Very, very enjoyable!!!!

good

I really enjoyed the narrator. She has a wonderful voice but all the random sound effects made it hard to hear the actual story at times

Better than expected!!

Any additional comments?

I had begun to fall out of love with this series, but Affliction has renewed my love!! At times the narrator's voice would completely change tone, sounding as if it had been dubbed in and it sounded terribly strange. It was an editing issue and not the narrator herself that caused this problem though! However, as great as she is at the 100 or however many different character voices, there was times that one character's voice would be used for another character's part, usually when they were having a conversation together. Also, one thing I noticed with Ted/ Edward was that his accent would fade in and out. Which is normal for him usually. Except this was within the same sentence!! The first time I noticed it was when he first joined the story, which I won't go into so as not to spoil anything too much. But even with all of these small annoyances throughout the book, the worst to me being Nathaniel and Nicky's voices, this book was well worth the credit!! I'm just mad at myself for waiting so long to listen to it! I got it very soon after it was released I think, but I'm just now listening to it. And I did a marathon listen too!! I listened to about 16 or 17 hours yesterday, finishing it up the last 2.5 hours today. But now I have to wait oh so long for book 23 to find out what happens next, in the personal and professional life of Anita Blake!!!

Another great book.

A great continuation of the story line. Kept my interest thru the entire story, which is sometimes difficult with a series that this involved. Looking forward to more.