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Title: What happened?
Review: I have to agree with so many of the other reviews of this book. If you go back to the beginning of the Anita Blake series, when the world was being created, there were interesting plotlines, interesting foils, interesting characters. Danse Macabre, along with Cerulean Sins and Incubus Dreams, leaves all of that behind so that the main character can "struggle" with the "relationships" in her life (under the influence of the new "monster" the ardeur). There is no struggle here except for the one where the author is attempting to keep Anita "tough" and failing to realize that over the time period of the series, she should have grown up a lot more than she has. Just as Anita is "tired" of having the same old arguments, the readers are tired of the same old problem - a writer can't seem to figure out what she wants to do with her character, but in order to continue to make more money is unwilling to make a change.
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