The Harlequin
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Our view
“The Harlequin” is a fifteenth Anita Blake novel mixing horror, mystery and erotica, and one for readers already deep in the series. Some readers find a better balance here between the investigation, the characters and the sex scenes than in the previous volume, though they are put off by passages where the plot stops for moral lecturing; others feel the final chapters pull hard. Newcomers should start the series from its first book.
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
The Harlequin is the fifteenth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of horror/mystery/erotica novels by Laurell K. Hamilton; it was released June 5, 2007.
Reading order · Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Full order & progress →- Guilty PleasuresStart here
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 HarlequinThis book
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 6.5 across 67 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 31% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.5 | 67 | 100% |
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