Friday, May 16, 2003
AUTHOR Hamilton, Laurell K.
TITLE Cerulean sins / Laurell K. Hamilton.
IMPRINT New York : Berkley Books, 2003.
DESCRIPT 376 p. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Blake, Anita (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Vampires -- Fiction.
Horror fiction.
ISBN 0425188361.
From Booklist
The eleventh Anita Blake yarn finds Anita up to her ears in men and vampire politics. When Anita's lover, Jean-Claude, the master vampire of St. Louis, receives word that Bella Morte, the originator of his vampire line, will be sending the sadistic Musette as a representative to his lair, he is none too pleased. Musette arrives a month early, and immediately sets her sights on Asher, a scarred vampire whom Bella once took pleasure in tormenting. Anita defies Musette and, by proxy, Bella, by taking Asher to bed, enraging the two vampire women. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer plagues St. Louis, and it is clear from the gruesome crime scenes that the murderer is some sort of shape shifter. To say Anita has her hands full is an understatement, and the vampire plot ends up taking precedence over the serial killer hunt, leaving the resolution of the latter feeling somewhat rushed. Nonetheless, Hamilton's complex, enthralling world is utterly absorbing, and Anita's many fans will be thrilled to see her back in action. Kristine Huntley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
TITLE Cerulean sins / Laurell K. Hamilton.
IMPRINT New York : Berkley Books, 2003.
DESCRIPT 376 p. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Blake, Anita (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Vampires -- Fiction.
Horror fiction.
ISBN 0425188361.
From Booklist
The eleventh Anita Blake yarn finds Anita up to her ears in men and vampire politics. When Anita's lover, Jean-Claude, the master vampire of St. Louis, receives word that Bella Morte, the originator of his vampire line, will be sending the sadistic Musette as a representative to his lair, he is none too pleased. Musette arrives a month early, and immediately sets her sights on Asher, a scarred vampire whom Bella once took pleasure in tormenting. Anita defies Musette and, by proxy, Bella, by taking Asher to bed, enraging the two vampire women. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer plagues St. Louis, and it is clear from the gruesome crime scenes that the murderer is some sort of shape shifter. To say Anita has her hands full is an understatement, and the vampire plot ends up taking precedence over the serial killer hunt, leaving the resolution of the latter feeling somewhat rushed. Nonetheless, Hamilton's complex, enthralling world is utterly absorbing, and Anita's many fans will be thrilled to see her back in action. Kristine Huntley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Budapest (Hungary) -- Fiction
Jewish fiction.
ISBN 0810110490
0810110245
Novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Winner
Back Cover Copy
Fateless is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy?s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone. George's response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic - that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed: when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural." Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate: rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."
Budapest (Hungary) -- Fiction
Jewish fiction.
ISBN 0810110490
0810110245
Novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Winner
Back Cover Copy
Fateless is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy?s experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone. George's response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic - that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed: when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural." Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate: rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."
