Sex and the Single Vampire
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If Allie doesn't find a ghost soon, her short career as a "Summoner" with United Psychical Research Association will be a thing of the past, so naturally she is delighted to find what she thinks is the tortured spirit of a gorgeous, naked, wounded man. But the cranky spirit, who looks exactly like the dishy man who has been haunting Allie's dreams, doesn't need her help since he isn't a ghost, but rather Christian Dante, best-selling author of vampire romances and Moravian Dark One. Of course, Allie wants some answers from the arrogant and domineering Christian, but he is more interested in working out the exact nature of their relationship, since fate has chosen Allie as his "Beloved." First met in MacAlister's A Girl's Guide to Vampires, Christian, along with several other characters, returns to find his true love as the always entertaining MacAlister continues her delectable contemporary paranormal series with another sinfully sexy, fabulously fun tale of love, vampires, ghosts, and demons. --John Charles
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From the back cover:
Allegra's Dictionary of the Paranormal
Dark One n. [Origin: Czech, also known as vampires] A Moravian Dark One is doomed to spend his liftime cruising the singles' scene in search of the one woman who can redeem his soul. You think dating is hard? Try it when you're nine hundred years old and you've used every pick-up line in the book. Forming a lasting relationship is even more difficult when the woman who makes your heart sing sees dead people and likes to play with demons.
Summoner n. [Origin English] Someone who summons ghosts, poltergeists, and demon lords. Summoners tend to hang around cities like London that are filled with portals to Hell, haunted inns, and other locations dishy vampires might be found lurking. Most Summoners are female, which makes for difficulties when it comes to explaining to the man who haunts your dreams and fills your soul with love why your pet ghosts can be found hovering around even the most romantic of circumstances.
List of books in Katie MacAlister's Dark One series:
1. A Girl's Guide to Vampires (November 2003)
2. Sex and the Single Vampire (March 2004)
3. Sex, Lies, and Vampires (February 2005)
4. Even Vampires Get the Blues (May 2006)
5. Bring Out Your Dead (in the Just One Sip anthology, September 2006)
6. The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires (April 2007)
If Allie doesn't find a ghost soon, her short career as a "Summoner" with United Psychical Research Association will be a thing of the past, so naturally she is delighted to find what she thinks is the tortured spirit of a gorgeous, naked, wounded man. But the cranky spirit, who looks exactly like the dishy man who has been haunting Allie's dreams, doesn't need her help since he isn't a ghost, but rather Christian Dante, best-selling author of vampire romances and Moravian Dark One. Of course, Allie wants some answers from the arrogant and domineering Christian, but he is more interested in working out the exact nature of their relationship, since fate has chosen Allie as his "Beloved." First met in MacAlister's A Girl's Guide to Vampires, Christian, along with several other characters, returns to find his true love as the always entertaining MacAlister continues her delectable contemporary paranormal series with another sinfully sexy, fabulously fun tale of love, vampires, ghosts, and demons. --John Charles
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
From the back cover:
Allegra's Dictionary of the Paranormal
Dark One n. [Origin: Czech, also known as vampires] A Moravian Dark One is doomed to spend his liftime cruising the singles' scene in search of the one woman who can redeem his soul. You think dating is hard? Try it when you're nine hundred years old and you've used every pick-up line in the book. Forming a lasting relationship is even more difficult when the woman who makes your heart sing sees dead people and likes to play with demons.
Summoner n. [Origin English] Someone who summons ghosts, poltergeists, and demon lords. Summoners tend to hang around cities like London that are filled with portals to Hell, haunted inns, and other locations dishy vampires might be found lurking. Most Summoners are female, which makes for difficulties when it comes to explaining to the man who haunts your dreams and fills your soul with love why your pet ghosts can be found hovering around even the most romantic of circumstances.
List of books in Katie MacAlister's Dark One series:
1. A Girl's Guide to Vampires (November 2003)
2. Sex and the Single Vampire (March 2004)
3. Sex, Lies, and Vampires (February 2005)
4. Even Vampires Get the Blues (May 2006)
5. Bring Out Your Dead (in the Just One Sip anthology, September 2006)
6. The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires (April 2007)
Journal Entry 2 by CandyDarling from Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Thursday, February 8, 2007
The second installment in Katie MacAlister's vampire series was definitely better than the first. Set in London, this story still suffers from some of MacAlister's trademark problems (no sense of location, annoying sidekicks) but the author is also starting to show some of that magic that makes her later books so good.
Allie is a terrific protagonist, as she is not an annoying bimbo, like Joy and Roxy in the previous book (who by the way, are minor characters in this book). Allie might even have been a heroine in a Charlaine Harris book, which is saying a lot, because at least in my opinion Charlaine Harris is a far better writer than Katie MacAlister. Allie's determination to overcome her past and establish herself as a summoner make her likeable and interesting.
This book definitely had a stronger plot than A Girls' Guide To Vampires. We get acquainted with the otherworld, and people who are in touch with it, like Summoners and Guardians. It is obvious that Katie MacAlister's vision of the world, which she developed further in the Aisling Grey series, began in this book. Actually, reading Sex and the Single Vampire after having read the Aisling Grey series can be a bit disconcerting, as there will be some déjà vu-experiences. (Or déjà lu, in this case.)
The ghost troupe served as the annoying sidekicks in this book. I don't really see why they had to be included, as they weren't very funny. Other than that, Sex and the Single Vampire was actually a pretty good, if somewhat fluffy, vampire romance. A strong plot with good characters, and the first glimpse into the otherworld as created by Katie MacAlister, this book was definitely worth my time.
Allie is a terrific protagonist, as she is not an annoying bimbo, like Joy and Roxy in the previous book (who by the way, are minor characters in this book). Allie might even have been a heroine in a Charlaine Harris book, which is saying a lot, because at least in my opinion Charlaine Harris is a far better writer than Katie MacAlister. Allie's determination to overcome her past and establish herself as a summoner make her likeable and interesting.
This book definitely had a stronger plot than A Girls' Guide To Vampires. We get acquainted with the otherworld, and people who are in touch with it, like Summoners and Guardians. It is obvious that Katie MacAlister's vision of the world, which she developed further in the Aisling Grey series, began in this book. Actually, reading Sex and the Single Vampire after having read the Aisling Grey series can be a bit disconcerting, as there will be some déjà vu-experiences. (Or déjà lu, in this case.)
The ghost troupe served as the annoying sidekicks in this book. I don't really see why they had to be included, as they weren't very funny. Other than that, Sex and the Single Vampire was actually a pretty good, if somewhat fluffy, vampire romance. A strong plot with good characters, and the first glimpse into the otherworld as created by Katie MacAlister, this book was definitely worth my time.
Journal Entry 3 by CandyDarling at -- Somewhere in Helsinki / Jossain päin kaupunkia in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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