Product Description

MICAH: Phone calls at half-past dawn are never a good omen for Anita Blake. This time she must fly within hours to Philadelphia, her task - to raise a witness from the dead for his testimony. Yet she could be her own worst enemy on this particular job. Accompanied only by her lover Micah, will he be enough to feed the ardeur, the lust-hunger that afflicts her? And, for the first time, they will be truly alone together - with all her fears and emotional doubts. STRANGE CANDY: Both sweet and spicy, these fantastical fairy tales are treats that will leave you craving more ...From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, readers will revel in these unique, at times surreal, visions. This is Laurell K. Hamilton's first short story collection - including an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #150534 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
'Death and gore galore ... Hamilton writes with ease and vigour ... Great fun' SHIVERS 'I was enthralled - a departure from the usual type of vampire tale which will have a wide appeal to any reader hunting for both chills and fun' Andre Norton 'The fights are fast and furious, with guns roaring, claws rending and wisecracks by the dozen.' OUTLAND

About the Author
Laurell K. Hamilton lives in St. Louis, County Missouri with her husband, daughter, two pug and two part pug dogs and an ever-fluctuating number of fish.

Customer Reviews

What a cheat
I LOVE the Anita Blake series, but I am beginning to see a trend. Authors are cheating because they are not writing fast enough. They are re-releasing old books together with other snippets and call it new. I mean it makes great revenue sense, but my gosh what a betrayal to her fans.

I already read Micah and when I read this one I was boiling mad - Micah was great reading but old news (because I already got the original), the other unwritten Anita Blake story is also old news in that it was referred to throughout the series so you already know what it was about. It's not really a story per se but a snippet of a moment in an event. Very disappointing. The rest, well they are one pagers of .... something. A story to me has to have a beginning, a middle and an end. These other short stories, well they have a flash but no beginning, middle or end.

Hence my term .... what a cheat, a cob out, a sell out.

Having said that, if you haven't read Micah or have the original book, then this is as good a buy as any.

Ms Hamilton, can you not join the other authors and do re-releases of old books in this way please? And if you are please clearly state. Calling it new stuff was just so misleading!! I had my hope totally dashed as I thought you had written another Anita story.

Well here's waiting .... waiting .... waiting .... waiting for the next one in the series after Harlequin

Originally released as separate titles
So if you read Micah the first time around when it was published in the USA this is the UK release with a combined with another title. Strange Candy, the other book in this title, is a collection of short stories which also was previously published separately.

Micah and strange candy
BUYER BEWARE.!!!!

Well I suppose I should start by saying that I Am a Avid fan of the Anita Blake books as a whole, and in fairness I should have taken the time to check if there were any written reviews....Having said that... I was Truly Disappointed.

This Is Not A New Book, the Main Story is an Edited version of Micah.

so if you have not read it yet Buy it on its own. I think Amazon and the Publisher should start marking books as Republished or New...Clearly.

After all they make enough money from us without resorting to this form

of cheating.