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Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I've rated this as a start class article. IMHO, the article needs:

Info for other releases
Condense plot summary to the bullet point style used for later novels
More detailed description of characters
Links to any verifiable reviews
An overall check for any other items missing from the template

I know that we don't normally edit other's text, but please feel free to add or strike items above and add a note below regarding any amendments. TheronJ 15:52, 6 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Wrong Plot

Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This is the wrong plot. The plot listed is for a different Anita Blake novel. 2601:444:382:92B0:591E:8324:433:74BD (talk) 00:57, 6 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

I agree the plot is not the plot of this novel. Trouble is, I don't think it is the plot of any Anita Blake novel, I think somebody wrote it from memory, too long after reading several of the books. It includes several ideas (Dance of the Dead, the Maestro, The Shadow...) which I do not remember from any Anita Blake book (having read up to book 27), at least one (the Dark Mother = Marmee Noir) who appears in a later book but is not in this one, even mentions "the vampire Edward Forrester" which is a mistake for Edward who is human... and so on. But it does mention some characters who die in this book, so it is not the plot of a later book either.

I am tempted to replace the plot entirely, but even though I have recently read the book, that would take time. But having looked at other Anita Blake novels, none of them have a "bullet point style" as suggested in this Talk (above), some have medium to long plot descriptions but several have extremely short entries with no plot at all - while the Lunatic Cafe (book 3) just redirects to the author, which is even less helpful. Is there anybody going around trying to delete these articles? I don't want to do work and then find it has disappeared. What I am feeling would be most achievable is a short summary of the major plot-elements.

Finding "user reviews" is of course now easy, there are 1,600 of them on goodreads. Should we now refer to goodreads? Or does Reception need reviews from professional reviewers? ISFDB refers to 3, though the reviews themselves do not seem to be online. Alan-24 (talk) 19:53, 9 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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