Book 17, 2018
Feb. 20th, 2018 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeAt lunch today, I finished the book I'd taken to work with me. It was Bled Dry, which is the third book in Erin McCarthy's "Vegas Vampires" series.
After a one-night stand with a vampire, Brittany Baldizzi finds herself pregnant. The father is Corbin Atelier, an old vampire who is doing research in an effort to reverse vampirism for those of his kind, like himself, that wish to have their mortality restored. Because Brittany's father was also a vampire, their child will be unique--an immortal with no need to drink blood to survive. Corbin fears for the baby's safety, and he tries to stay away from Brittany so as not to give away the child's parentage. Brittany, however, isn't having it. Unfortunately, Corbin's fears are proved to be well-founded when Brittany is abducted by an unscrupulous vampire who wishes to do some genetic work of his own with her baby.
I don't read paranormal romance like I used to. The story was okay--sort of paranormal lite, if you will. It was rather predictable. I didn't like how the author bounced from one character's pov to another. It was all in third person pov, which is fine, but stick to one character, please. She even doodled off to follow a subplot involving a different vampire and his main squeeze. Just, no.
Favorite line: She figured an easy seventy-five percent of what a man said needed to be dismissed if his penis was erect at the time of speaking.
Premise was trite, characterizations were flat, the mortal peril was dealt with so easily it was yawn-worthy, and the narrative bounced around too much. Blah. Two stars:
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After a one-night stand with a vampire, Brittany Baldizzi finds herself pregnant. The father is Corbin Atelier, an old vampire who is doing research in an effort to reverse vampirism for those of his kind, like himself, that wish to have their mortality restored. Because Brittany's father was also a vampire, their child will be unique--an immortal with no need to drink blood to survive. Corbin fears for the baby's safety, and he tries to stay away from Brittany so as not to give away the child's parentage. Brittany, however, isn't having it. Unfortunately, Corbin's fears are proved to be well-founded when Brittany is abducted by an unscrupulous vampire who wishes to do some genetic work of his own with her baby.
I don't read paranormal romance like I used to. The story was okay--sort of paranormal lite, if you will. It was rather predictable. I didn't like how the author bounced from one character's pov to another. It was all in third person pov, which is fine, but stick to one character, please. She even doodled off to follow a subplot involving a different vampire and his main squeeze. Just, no.
Favorite line: She figured an easy seventy-five percent of what a man said needed to be dismissed if his penis was erect at the time of speaking.
Premise was trite, characterizations were flat, the mortal peril was dealt with so easily it was yawn-worthy, and the narrative bounced around too much. Blah. Two stars:
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