Guilty Pleasures
- 272
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Our view
What makes “Guilty Pleasures” worth reading is Anita Blake herself, vampire hunter and necromancer. Hamilton crosses supernatural horror with hard-boiled detective fiction in a first volume that moves fast. The plot seems disjointed to some readers and the prose weak in places; some note that romance plays only a small part in it.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Guilty Pleasures is a horror and mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton. It is the first book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Guilty Pleasures introduces the character of Anita Blake, a vampire hunter and necromancer, who works in an alternate universe where magic, vampires, werewolves and other supernatural elements exist. The novel blends elements of supernatural and hardboiled detective fiction.
Reading order · Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Full order & progress →- Guilty PleasuresThis book
7.37.3 / 10 - The Laughing Corpse
7.57.5 / 10 - Circus of the Damned
7.87.8 / 10 - The Lunatic Cafe
7.77.7 / 10 - Bloody Bones
7.57.5 / 10 - The Killing Dance
7.77.7 / 10 - Burnt Offerings
7.37.3 / 10 - Blue Moon
7.37.3 / 10 - Obsidian Butterfly
7.57.5 / 10 - Narcissus in Chains
7.27.2 / 10 - Cerulean Sins
7.17.1 / 10 - Incubus Dreams
7.17.1 / 10 - Micah
6.96.9 / 10 - Danse Macabre
7.27.2 / 10 - The Harlequin
7.27.2 / 10 - Blood Noir
7.17.1 / 10 - Skin Trade
7.37.3 / 10 - Flirt
7.17.1 / 10 - Bullet
7.27.2 / 10 - Hit List
7.37.3 / 10 - Kiss the Dead
–Not ranked yet - Affliction
–Not ranked yet - Jason
–Not ranked yet - Dead Ice
–Not ranked yet - Crimson Death
–Not ranked yet - Serpentine
–Not ranked yet - Sucker Punch
7.27.2 / 10 - Rafael
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 282 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 66% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 19 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 263 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is Guilty Pleasures?
It has 272 pages — shorter than 82% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Horror — with scores between 7.3 and 7.8, closest to this book.
