Book 83, 2020

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Your Coffin or Mine? by Kimberly Raye

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I finished reading my work book at lunch yesterday. It was Your Coffin or Mine? by Kimberly Raye, and it's the third installment in the "Dead End Dating" series of lite, paranormal romance. I have read the first two, but it's been quite some time ago. Story is told in first person point of view by the main character, hot and fabulous vampire Lil Marchette.

As the owner of Dead End Dating, a matchmaking service for supernaturals, Lil is looking to diversify and add humans to the mix. She signs on for Manhattan's Most Wanted, which is a local show a la The Bachelor. Lil has no interest in the eligible bachelor; she's looking to add all those eligible women to her list of clients. Unfortunately for Lil, she keeps progressing through the ranks of women on her way to the finale. Trouble is, Lil isn't interested in the human hottie. She's still trying to get over her amazing one-night stand with vampire Ty Bonner. They have a mental connection, and through it, Lil senses that Ty has landed himself in danger. Complicating things, she's trying to assist her (very human) soon to be sister-in-law with wedding arrangements, all while trying to fend off her mother who has no use for a human daughter-in-law and wants Lil to match her brother up with a nice vampire girl. The last thing Lil needs to add to the mix is a half-starved alley cat, but that's what she ends up taking home with her. Now all she needs to do is find Ty, avoid her mother, get eliminated from MMW, and train Killer to use the litterbox...all while wearing the latest fashion.

This book was a hoot! I really did laugh out loud several times while reading it. Not only is Lil witty, but the scrapes she gets herself into are beyond funny. I enjoyed the other characters, too, from her crazy family to her wacky employee, Evie. Through it all, Lil never misses an opportunity to hand out business cards to bring in more clients. Although there was a lot going on, including several plot lines, everything flowed and came together smoothly.

Favorite lines:
♦ "You turn into a hermit, invest in a couple dozen cats. They find you one day, facedown in the kitty litter. Dead. Alone."
♦ "You can't just stay here, pooping and starving."
♦ The urge to go home and plunge face-first into the kitty litter was pretty strong.
♦ The one thing I needed even less than an old, snotty cat was an old, snotty, psychotic cat and smelly furniture.
♦ "I just know we'll make fab babies together and every year we'll celebrate our wedding anniversary with a sentimental stampede through Central Park."

This book was everything that romance a la paranormal lite is meant to be. Five stars!