Bite

by Angela Knight, Laurell K. Hamilton, MaryJanice Davidson, et al.

Book Overview

The bite is back in vampire fiction as five of today's most provocative authors cast their irresistible spells on you... Follow a vampire hunter who can be as deadly as her prey. Meet a down-home... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 051513970X
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 0.8" x 4.1"

Customer Reviews

Recollecting the series

I'm recollecting my favorite series of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and decided to get the anthologies too. I read this one a long time ago but love them. It gives another layer to the story we may not have had otherwise.

A book with real teeth!

I seldom give 5 stars to an anthology, however I enjoyed each one of these stories. Laurell Hamilton: Anita Blake comes face to face with tempation in this short story. Just one small incidence in her interesting life. Charlaine Harris: Sookie Stackhouse has an interesting interview with an entity sent by the Queen of the Vampires. Sometimes it's just a matter of choice, but whose choice is it? MaryJanice Davidson: Someone is triffling with the emotions of young girls. They are committing suicide for love. The local vampiress must contact the new Queen of the Vampires, Betsy, for some help. Angela Knight: A new magae has a vision. A vision of herself and Galahad fighting evil vamps. It's hard enough to go to someone like Galahad and tell him he has to help her destroy a bunch of vamps. She has had no training so how is she to do her part to protect this hero as well as herself? Vickie Taylor: The Queen of the Vamps keeps everyone under control by controlling the supply of blood. In other words, she decides who gets to feed. Daniel is a researcher who has perfected a new blood substitute. She won't allow anyone to control the blood supply but herself. HOw can a human and one lone vampire overcome the might and power of the Queen.?

Bite

If you like "Vampire Books" then this is a book for you. I love Laurell K. Hamilton, and because of this book I am now an avid reader of Charlaine Harris and her character "Sookie Stackhouse". I assure you that you will not be disappointed in this book.

5 terrific stories

Other then Vicky Taylor, I've been a long time fan of all these authors. I really enjoyed all the stories. The Girl Who was Infatuated with Death by Laurell K Hamilton is a short story (too short!) set in the time period between Blue Moon and Obsidian Butterfly when Anita was taking a break from 'the boys' :-) It's an interlude between her and Jean-Claude as she's working to save a young girl from becoming a vampire. I really enjoyed this story. It fits very well between the two books and it was wonderful to have a new LKH story in an anthology, as previous ones have been excerpts from her other books. One Word Answer by Charlaine Harris: I've only read the first book in her Sookie Stackhouse series (and loved it), now I'm going to read the ones I've missed. Sookie receives an inheritance from her cousin and helps to solve the mystery of her death. It was funny, also a bit on the short side and featured Sookie's friend Bubba who is actually Elvis and very funny. Biting in Plain Sight by MaryJanice Davidson is connected to her Undead and Unwed series. I really enjoyed this story of a small town Veterinarian, who is also a vampire and a man from her town who has finally decided to take matters into his own hands and tell her he loves. They are trying to stop a vampire serial killer with the help of Betsy and Eric from Undead and Unwed. Touching and funny too. Galahad by Angela Knight was excellent. It's a story in Angela's wonderful series that joins Arthurian legend with vampire lore. Caroline is a former English teacher who has only recently become a Magea (a witch) and was heartbroken by the vampire who turned her. Then she has a vision about someone making evil vamps and her and a handsome vamp getting rid of them, and she goes in search of the good guy vamp who turns out to be Galahad. It's another wonderful, yet stand alone, story in Ms. Knights incredible new series, funny and very steamy. Blood Lust by Vickie Taylor: Daniel is a scientist who has been working to come up with an alternative to blood. The man he works for turns on him, takes away everything and Daniel wants revenge. He meets Deadre a vampire who he wants to help him. Together they find the bad guy and love.

Five views of of the vampire life

The five short stories/novellas in this book are all well done. Each represents a different set of expectations concerning vampire lore, and all are entertaining. The only author I was unfamiliar with was Vickie Taylor, whose story "Blood Lust" is a romance set to vampire music. This is a boy loses wrong girl to bad guy, finds right girl, gets right girl, i.e. romance. The only thing I found disconcerting was when the characters uttered typical oaths like "good god" they clearly got a negative physical reaction which implied that they were dammed creatures. The story moved quickly and was funny. Angela Knight, who writes erotic romances for Red Sage Publishing, has written a cute story set in Arthurian times, with interesting relationships between witches and vampires. Another romance, "Galahad" has a right male vampire and right female witch team, at odds with each other, defeat the bad vampires and unite in spite of mischevious witches and dragons. Cute, fast reading, and lots of graphic sex. MaryJanice Davidson"s "Biting in Plain Sight" stars a vampire vetrinarian who lives in a small town with a don't ask, don't tell policy. After the death of her long-time human companion, she falls into a relationship with Liam, another mortal who has loved her from a distance for a number of years. She seeks out assistance in stoppping a rogue vampire and Liam goes along with her. We also get another opportunity to see the Vampire Majesties, Betsy Taylor and Eric Sinclair, who first came to our attention in Davidson's 2002 novel Undead and Unwed. This novella is a worth addition to Davidson's vampire writings. Charlaine Harris gives us another visit with Sookie Stackhouse in "One Word Answer." First brought to us in "Dead Until Dark" and staring in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, Sookie has the mystery of a dead vampire cousin's death to explain. With snappy dialogue and a few puns, the story moves quickly, and ends well. A well written story. Finally, Laurell K. Hamilton's "The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death" is from an earlier period in the Anita Blake series. This strong story, which helps bridge the period between Blue Moon and Obsidian Butterfly, helps us understand the fascination that Anita has for Jean Claude, her vampire lover. The story is about a girl with a fatal illness who wants to become a vampire rather than suffer amputation, and the mother who doesn't want this to happen. Mother hires Anita to find the daughter and stop the process. What the story helps us see is the growing moral ambivalence that Anita has over having a vampire lover, and serves as a good lead to Obsidian Butterfly. A marvelous story, well developed, too short. Over all, this is an excellent collection of stories, worth every spare reading moment.

Great vampire anthology

"The Girl who was Infatuated with Death" by Laurell K. Hamilton. Ms. Rhonda Mackenzie wants vampire executioner Anita Blake to find the vampire that has bitten her daughter two times and kill. If she is bitten three times she will become a vampire which is what she wants because she will lose one leg, perhaps two if she doedn't changes over. Anita asks the master of the city, Jean-Claude if he will help her find the vampire. After not seeing him for a long time because she was learning to control her powers, Anita realizes her feelings for him have not changed. "One Word Answer" by Charlaine Harris. Telepath Sookie Stackhouse of Bon Temps Louisiana is visited by Mr. Cataliades and Waldo the vampire to inform Sookie that her cousin, a vampire who was staked, left her estate to her cousin. Mr. Cataliades informs Sookie that Waldo killed her because she was the favorite of the queen of New Orleans and he wants Sookie to stake the vampire Sookie doesn't want to but Waldo makes sure that he will not be returned to his queen to be tortured. "Biting in Plain Sight" by Mary Janice Davidson: In the town of Embarrass, everyone knows that the vet Dr. Sophie Tourneau is a vampire but they ignore that fact because she takes great care of their animals. Liam is in love with her and when she goes out hunting a serial vampire killer, he insists on accompanying her. He tells her how he feels and she takes him to bed and drinks his blood. She cares about him but she's not sure if she is better off without any emotional ties to a mortal. When they go after the vampire killer, Liam impresses Sophie with his actions and his commitment to her. "Galahad" by Angela Knight. Caroline was turned by a vampire into a witch with magical powers and immortality. She lives in Avalon in the mageverse where vampires and witches form a symbiotic relationship. Witches need their blood drained every few days to lower their blood pressure and vampires have a willing blood source. Caroline has a vision about humans drinking from a cup and turning into vampires who are the antithesis of the undead in the mageverse. Galahad, pure of heart and a vampire is assigned by Morgana Le Fey to work with Caroline to find the threecups and destroy the evil vampires. Along the way fall in love but Galahad fears Caroline won't want him once she learns all the ugly things he had to do to defeat the bad guys. "Blood lust" by Vickie Taylor. Garth funded Daniel Hart's research into making synthetic blood but stole the formula, Daniel's girlfriend and his house before revealing himself as a vampire. Daniel asks vampire Deadre Blue to turn him a vampire so he can kill Garth, his girlfriend who is now a vampire and then himself. Deadre doesn't want to do it but when he is accidentally killed, she feeds him her blood and he turns into a vampire. Deadre has fallen in love with Daniel and goes with him to fight Garth the enforcer to the High Matron. The synthetic blood make Daniel Garth