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Editorial Review:
Anita is pushed to her limits-both professionally and passionately-when she is called in on what appears to be a case involving a vampire serial killer preying on strippers.
Description of Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 12):
As Incubus Dreams opens, Anita Blake may be America's most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it's no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading Incubus Dreams for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However, Incubus Dreams is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor, Cerulean Sins, and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita's complicated love life. --Cynthia Ward
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Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 12) Reviews:
Meh. 
2009-12-11 - Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams (Berkley, 2004)
Here we are in the twelfth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter book. It's been quite a while since Anita Blake did all that much vampire hunting (and what she's been doing with vampires recently has very little to do with hunting). Perhaps it's time to get back to some vampire hunting?
In this one, Anita juggles boyfriends, emotes, kind of makes up with Richard after meeting his new girlfriend, and, oh, investigates a handful of murders along the way. And that's what's been bugging me about the last few novels in the series; the mystery angle is an afterthought. It's not so much that the series has turned into a soap opera, but that it's turned into a soap opera that's still trying to keep its original readership by still including a few pages (I'd say 5% of the book's six hundred fifty) devoted to the original premise of the series, preternatural crimes.
Still, for all that, I can't be too incensed with Hamilton, because I'm still reading them, and I'm still interested in the soap opera. I just wish the mystery angle didn't seem so obviously like it was tacked on at the end. ***
Very exciting. 
2009-10-18 - This was a great book. A lot happening with romance and action. Anita has to find herself and come to terms with the life she has. Very exciting and a very enjoyable read.
Incubus Dreams
2009-10-17 - It did take much longer than expected to receive the book , bit t came in good condition.
Turning point in the AB series 
2009-09-22 - Incubus Dreams was the turning point in the Anita Blake series for me. It was when the series started going downhill and Anita just became a Mary Sue. If there is any doubt about Anita Blake being a Mary Sue, just look at the book cover. The woman on the cover whom I presume to be Anita very much resembles LKH herself albeit a thinner and younger version of course.
I also felt like a more appropriate title should have been "Succubus Dreams" since it was all about Anita feeding on sex, talking about sex, whining about sex. Sex, sex and more sex. Very tiresome. Second worst book in the series right after Danse Macabre (which is the worst book ever).
death by sex
2009-09-15 - I am loyal Anita Blake fan. But this book might be the show killer for me. It is not the fact that she's doing menage a tois, we all wouldn't be this far into the series if it bothered us. Or having "sex" with 5 different guys in less than 24 hours. The beastiality portion was a bit too much, and I liked her better when she "didn't do furry." Especially when an hour later she has an official threesome. But I am tired of how the sex scenes that she is not comfortable with are a life or death, the future of St. Louis depends on it situation. Every problem is solved with either metaphysical sex, partial sex or just plain sex. She saves lives by feeding the ardeur which makes her or someone else more powerful, and basically by having an orgasm. Where's the Anita Blake that kicked Raina's and the old Master of the City's [...]??? With all her new powers, these books have so much potential. But instead she's saving the world through sex. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with sex, but at least beef up the plot around it. I skipped so many pages. There's also a lot of screaming during the sex scenes. Screaming is good, but the scene doesn't work up to what I would warrant the need for a scream. Some of the sex scenes are outstanding, but some are down right disappointing.
