Book 71, 2025
Jul. 13th, 2025 02:32 pm
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Last night I finished reading American Vampire by JR Rain. This is the third book in the “Vampire for Hire” series, starring newbie vampire, Samantha Moon.
Samantha is living life as best as she can, dealing with her vampirism while still being the best mother she can to her children and working as a private investigator. After years of exchanging candid IMs with someone she knows only as “Fang”, Sam gets the chance to meet him. He’s not what she expected, and the fact that he’s someone she already knew has knocked her for a loop. Sam does not have time to dwell on it, because she receives a mysterious phone call from a young child named Maddie—a girl who has been missing for months. Samantha is determined to find her before it’s too late. On top of everything else, her own child, Anthony, grows terribly sick. Sam fears he’s dying, and she’s faced with a terrible choice.
Nothing in this was predictable, which was both vexing and refreshing. I really felt for Sam, pulled in so many different directions and growing ever more desperate to save both Maddie and Anthony. Along the way, she taps known allies and makes some new ones. Action was fast and furious with barely any down time for Samantha. It made it difficult to set this aside.
Favorite lines:
♦ A relationship should add to your life, not take away from it.
♦ His toes, I saw, were extraordinarily long and hairy, too. He wiggled them at me when he saw me looking at them. They looked like ten frightened mice.
♦ “The guy you found dead in the meth house was murdered.” // “I’m shocked and outraged.”
Exciting and fast-paced. I wasn’t onboard with Fang’s real identity, nor his backstory, and I didn’t like the sad subplot of Anthony’s terminal illness. Nevertheless, a good read. Four stars.