Undead And Unwed

by MaryJanice Davidson | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0749936452 Global Overview for this book
Registered by minx2012 on 8/24/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by minx2012 on Friday, August 24, 2007
The back blurb:
"Betsy Taylor has just woken up in a morgue to discover she's a vampire. On the plus side, being undead beats the alternative. She now has superhuman strength and an unnatural effect on the opposite sex. What Betsy can't handle is her new liquid diet.
"And whilst her mother is relieved to find out that being dead doesn't mean Betsy can't visit, her new 'night-time friends' have the ridiculous notion that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and the scrumptious Sinclair and his cohorts want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries. Frankly Betsy couldn't care less about vampire politics. But Sinclair and his followers have powerful methods of persuasion, not least of which is unlimited access to Manolo Blahnik's spring collection..."

That's better!
I figured I'd probably missed a trick by not reading this, the first Undead book, before Unemployed, and I was right.
I could forgive the writing for trying to make everything seem chaotic for Betsy in this volume, because waking up dead - in a morgue, in bad clothes - is a lot to take in. But she just isn't very good at dealing with things, is she? Any excuse to fly into an "it's so unfair" snit and she takes it, despite the fact that she shows herself to be more than capable of processing Big Ideas and acting on them in an intelligent fashion. Methinks Betsy likes the attention her apparent inability to cope brings her.
Considering the importance of the fight with Nostro, and her subsequent dalliance with Sinclair, I was also very disappointed with how little page-space they merited. Let the girl moan about her shoes, clothes, inability to eat chocolate ever again (hang on, maybe she does have a reason to be grumpy after all...), but Gods forbid she should spend any more time than absolutely necessary on the two most significant events in the book!

Despite that, this series is enjoyable enough, and I'm sure the pages are impregnated with something slightly addictive. I have more than enough books to read, and some I know are much better than this series, but I get the feeling I'll be sneaking a look for the third when I get a chance.

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