#72 in Horror
The Killing Dance
- 322
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Killing Dance” gives Anita Blake’s readers what they come for by this stage: mystery, action, horror and erotic tension in good balance. Laurell K. Hamilton lets her characters change gradually from book to book, and some readers find the strained triangle of Anita, Richard and Jean-Claude convincing here. Others look back on this sixth volume as the point where the series turns more lurid, a turn some of them welcome.
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 Killing Dance is a horror/mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton, the sixth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series.
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 DanceThis book
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 7.5 across 152 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 51% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 10 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 142 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Killing Dance?
It has 322 pages — shorter than 90% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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