There's a new breed of soccer mom in town-with fangs.
Does drinking blood make me a bad mother? That's the question single mom Jessica M... read full description
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Apr 08, 2011
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There's a new breed of soccer mom in town-with fangs.
Does drinking blood make me a bad mother? That's the question single mom Jessica Matthews faces when she wakes from a savage attack sucking on the thigh of Patrick O'Halloran, a super-hot Irish vampire who'd generously offered his femoral artery to save her from death...only to make her one of the undead.
Jessica can't rest until the beast that did this to More...
There's a new breed of soccer mom in town-with fangs.
Does drinking blood make me a bad mother? That's the question single mom Jessica Matthews faces when she wakes from a savage attack sucking on the thigh of Patrick O'Halloran, a super-hot Irish vampire who'd generously offered his femoral artery to save her from death...only to make her one of the undead.
Jessica can't rest until the beast that did this to More...
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Aug 23, 2008
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Story centers around a suburban mom (Jessica Matthews) who gets mauled by a hairy creature as she takes out the trash. She wakes up later to find that the creature nearly killed her and so she had to be Turned into a vampire. Thusly she discovers a whole world she didn't know existed that has vampires, wolf shapshifters, and humans working together, but they also have enemies. Starts off interesting, but about third or halfway through begins feel repetitive. Lots of mom jokes and snarking off at
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Nov 24, 2011
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*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*
I’m the Vampire, That’s Why, is an incredibly fun introduction to a new paranormal world. In it, Jessica Matthews is violently awakened to the truth of the world around her when she is attacked and murdered by The Lorcan. Fortunately for Jessica, 4,000 year-old vampire Patrick O’Halloran is around to save her. Patrick is a direct descendant of Ruadan the First and one of only a few powerful enough to save Jessica and th More...
*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*
I’m the Vampire, That’s Why, is an incredibly fun introduction to a new paranormal world. In it, Jessica Matthews is violently awakened to the truth of the world around her when she is attacked and murdered by The Lorcan. Fortunately for Jessica, 4,000 year-old vampire Patrick O’Halloran is around to save her. Patrick is a direct descendant of Ruadan the First and one of only a few powerful enough to save Jessica and th More...
Oct 26, 2011
Traci
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I started this book thinking it was going to be a fun, light, sassy read. I really wanted to like it. But after a little over 100 pages I had to stop. Reasons for doing so:
It was very inconsistent – So many things contradicted each other. In one scene she burst through the roof of an RV, a handful of pages later, it was noted that the van had such strong walls/roof/floor that not even vampire strength could dent it. Umm ok???
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It was very inconsistent – So many things contradicted each other. In one scene she burst through the roof of an RV, a handful of pages later, it was noted that the van had such strong walls/roof/floor that not even vampire strength could dent it. Umm ok???
Just like when she woke the first night she noticed her More...
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Sep 24, 2011
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Sep 13, 2011
t'irla ~aka s'layer~
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I went into this book as a filler, waiting to receive the next book in a series I was reading not really expecting much. It was a single book I had hanging around and I didn't have any of the rest of the series so I thought I was "safe". Well!! Imagine my surprise when I fell head over heels for Jessica and Patrick.
Jessica is your normal everyday single Mom. Patrick is your millennium + old Vampire. Patrick and his group decide Broken Heart, Oklahoma is a good place to s More...
Jessica is your normal everyday single Mom. Patrick is your millennium + old Vampire. Patrick and his group decide Broken Heart, Oklahoma is a good place to s More...
Aug 01, 2011
Mlle.
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Go ahead and add I'm the Vampire, That's Why to the growing list of lackluster paranormals that are clogging up bookshelves around the nation. This book is like vampire paranormal goulash - Bardsley just threw plot elements from other vampire series into the pot, and waited to see what would happen.
Bardsley gallups through the setup, where we learn about her alternate reality and her main characters. She's so busy getting to the good stuff she devotes no more than a paragraph to any o More...
Bardsley gallups through the setup, where we learn about her alternate reality and her main characters. She's so busy getting to the good stuff she devotes no more than a paragraph to any o More...
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Apr 23, 2011
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Why oh why is this series not in ebook!?!?!?!? It is just wrong I tell you! This book was so much fun!
I loved the author's and the main character's snarky sence of humor. This book had me laughing out loud.
Our main character is a single mom of two who gets attacked on the way to take out the garbage. Her son's chore by the way. Many of the situations/interactions took a little leap of faith on my part as a reader, but hey...it's a world with vampires. Let's suspend More...
I loved the author's and the main character's snarky sence of humor. This book had me laughing out loud.
Our main character is a single mom of two who gets attacked on the way to take out the garbage. Her son's chore by the way. Many of the situations/interactions took a little leap of faith on my part as a reader, but hey...it's a world with vampires. Let's suspend More...
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Jan 28, 2012
Felicia
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Actually more like a 3.5 for the rating :)
What I Loved: This was a very fun, well-paced, and super cute read. It was fun just watching the characters interact whether is was loving, fighting, snarking, crying, giving, learning, or wanting!
What I Liked: This was an all around good read. It was entertaining and made me giggle more than once. It wasn't too serious but it did deliver the romance.
Why I gave it a 3.5: This was a fun, quick read that hit the romantic fun p More...
What I Loved: This was a very fun, well-paced, and super cute read. It was fun just watching the characters interact whether is was loving, fighting, snarking, crying, giving, learning, or wanting!
What I Liked: This was an all around good read. It was entertaining and made me giggle more than once. It wasn't too serious but it did deliver the romance.
Why I gave it a 3.5: This was a fun, quick read that hit the romantic fun p More...
May 28, 2010
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This was an adorable book. My friend Suzan told me I’d like them but I didn’t jump on into reading them until now, and I quite simply must read them all! The writing is delightful; I laughed so hard!
The Setting — is Broken Heart, Oklahoma, where the population is primarily single parents, most of whom are nursing broken hearts, thus the tiny town is quite aptly named.
The Characters — are quirky and funny. I really liked the main character, Jessica, and her struggle to More...
The Setting — is Broken Heart, Oklahoma, where the population is primarily single parents, most of whom are nursing broken hearts, thus the tiny town is quite aptly named.
The Characters — are quirky and funny. I really liked the main character, Jessica, and her struggle to More...
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Jun 08, 2010
Alice
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Jessica Matthews is a typical single mother who finds her self turned into a vampire one night after taking out the garbage.
I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley is a cute, sharp-witted paranormal romantic comedy with a full cast of quirky, fun characters.
When a handful of single parents, included her ex-husbands mistress, all turn vampire, Jessica Matthews finds her world turned upside down as she stresses about having to drink blood, dealing with vampire laws More...
I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley is a cute, sharp-witted paranormal romantic comedy with a full cast of quirky, fun characters.
When a handful of single parents, included her ex-husbands mistress, all turn vampire, Jessica Matthews finds her world turned upside down as she stresses about having to drink blood, dealing with vampire laws More...
Feb 21, 2011
Clare
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There's a difference between fun, lighthearted vampire fiction and the ridiculous. This one was ridiculous. It had too many elements:
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* Jessica, a bitter ex-wife who's now an ex-widow, she's also the descendent of some Irish magic. Her ancestor's curse means no one in her town of Broken Heart, Oklahoma will ever find love. She is attacked by a monster, and then saved by the Irish non-monster version of the same person. Very confusing.
*Her husband's girlfriend has a change
Jan 25, 2011
Paranormal
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Jessica Matthews is a single mother of two who was unable to out run the bad luck of the town. Jessica lives in broken heart
Oklahoma and just like the name suggests the town is filled with
broken hearts, with the highest Rate of divorce and single parents in
the whole state.
Just a normal day in the life of Jessica Matthews, yelling at her
teenage son who failed to take out the trash, taking the trash out herself, just what she expected every day. But what she’d More...
Oklahoma and just like the name suggests the town is filled with
broken hearts, with the highest Rate of divorce and single parents in
the whole state.
Just a normal day in the life of Jessica Matthews, yelling at her
teenage son who failed to take out the trash, taking the trash out herself, just what she expected every day. But what she’d More...
Jan 01, 2009
Jessica
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Michele Bardsley is an absolute delight and a breath of fresh air! Her characters jump to life on the pages with witty come-backs, sarcasm in abundance, and the trials that all parents face - except her characters have to face them as vampires. And you thought you had it bad! Try raising teenagers when your body becomes dead to the world whenever the sun rises!
I'm the Vampire, That's Why made me laugh, made me want to throttle a character or two, but most of all - it made me wish the More...
I'm the Vampire, That's Why made me laugh, made me want to throttle a character or two, but most of all - it made me wish the More...
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Oct 11, 2011
Magda
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2.5 stars. Guess the author is a big Mary Janice Davidson fan, apart from mentioning her in the book she also tried to copy her writing style without the same result.
This book definitely had its funny moments but it also had some WTF moments, too.
Don't know if I liked it enough to continue reading the series.
This book definitely had its funny moments but it also had some WTF moments, too.
Don't know if I liked it enough to continue reading the series.
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Dec 04, 2008
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Single mom Jessica Matthews was simply taking out the garbage, since her lazy son forgot to do it, when her whole world was turned upside down. Attacked by a werewolf, she awakens to find herself sucking on the thigh of the incredible sexy Patrick O’Halloran. He has turned her to save her life and she is not very happy about it. Jessica definitely has issues with men as her late husband cheated on her and then had the nerve to die before she could divorce him...
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Oct 28, 2010
Sasha
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The first chapter was laugh out loud funny and then it went downhill from there. I was expecting to see how she dealt with motherhood and being a vampire, how the family relationships were altered etc. But all I got was a glossing over of the problems and sex with the resident vamp hottie. I wanted more susbstance and all I got was fluff. But once I understood that that was what the series was about, I enjoyed the other books much more.
I went all the way up to book 3 and then quit beca More...
I went all the way up to book 3 and then quit beca More...
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Jun 21, 2010
Bookwatcher
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Ok, one paragraph to convince you that this book is funny and hot:
"When I woke, I wasn't standing at the pearly gates of heaven. Well, not unless the religious definition of "pearly gates" was way, way off base.
I was latched on the velvet inside of a muscular male thigh, my teeth embedded in flesh near his groin..."
Oh yes... Jessica and Patrick first scene together is hot.
It's a great book full of not so normal aspects (she is a mother of 2 kids More...
"When I woke, I wasn't standing at the pearly gates of heaven. Well, not unless the religious definition of "pearly gates" was way, way off base.
I was latched on the velvet inside of a muscular male thigh, my teeth embedded in flesh near his groin..."
Oh yes... Jessica and Patrick first scene together is hot.
It's a great book full of not so normal aspects (she is a mother of 2 kids More...
Jun 30, 2011
Shawna
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Okay so I honestly did not think this would be a book that I would enjoy when I picked it up. Actually my friend picked up the first 7 books of the series at a used book drive for charity. The set, she only paid $2 for. She couldn't get into the first so she handed them off to me. I read the back and was like umm...I don't know about this. However I love to read and thought I would give it a go. To my surprise I really enjoyed the book.
My first reaction was this is going to be diff More...
My first reaction was this is going to be diff More...
Mar 12, 2011
Amanda
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Favorite things about the book: All of the characters (except their children) are adult., Jessica is a single mother, and has a great snarky sense of humor. There are vampires, fae, and shapeshifters.
Completely Unbelievable: (and yes I understand that the whole book should be unbelievable b/c it's about vampires...) Jessica learns her fighting skills by having it "downloaded," simply put, Patrick (her love interest) touches her forehead and downloads everything she needs to know More...
Completely Unbelievable: (and yes I understand that the whole book should be unbelievable b/c it's about vampires...) Jessica learns her fighting skills by having it "downloaded," simply put, Patrick (her love interest) touches her forehead and downloads everything she needs to know More...
Jun 06, 2010
Sarah
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I would like to say that I enjoyed this book from cover to cover, but I must confess it somewhat had me draggin my eyes from page to page. (And not in the good way, mind you.) Overall it was a tad bit too pornographic for me, but that came part of the guaranteed bargain as it's a "lady book." (Duh.)
However, it was quite unique as opposed to the usual romance books that I never really enjoy and can never read more than a page without bursting into peals of laughter at the mention More...
However, it was quite unique as opposed to the usual romance books that I never really enjoy and can never read more than a page without bursting into peals of laughter at the mention More...
Mar 04, 2010
Mem
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# 1 Broken Heart Vampires
There's a new breed of soccer mom in town-with fangs.
Does drinking blood make me a bad mother? That's the question single mom Jessica Matthews faces when she wakes from a savage attack sucking on the thigh of Patrick O'Halloran, a super-hot Irish vampire who'd generously offered his femoral artery to save her from death...only to make her one of the undead.
Jessica can't rest until the beast that did this to her is caught. Meanwhile, she's ha More...
Jan 15, 2009
Shannon
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I thought this would be a fun book to read, and it was, if somewhat annoying also.
It is about a single mother in the small town of Broken Heart, Oklahoma who, while taking out the garbage, is attacked and killed, but wakes up to find that she has been turned into a vampire. She also finds out that the same has happened to ten other people in Broken Heart. Most of the book is spent with her trying to figure out how to be a vampire and still raise her two children, all while falling More...
It is about a single mother in the small town of Broken Heart, Oklahoma who, while taking out the garbage, is attacked and killed, but wakes up to find that she has been turned into a vampire. She also finds out that the same has happened to ten other people in Broken Heart. Most of the book is spent with her trying to figure out how to be a vampire and still raise her two children, all while falling More...
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Oct 01, 2007
Didn't care for this one at all. Not well written, very shallow, and not engaging in spite of the flaws... :op
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Jan 09, 2011
Kathy
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While this book follows a common theme in these para-normal books (woman gets turned into vampire/werewolf/discovers super powers and meets hottie male), the humor of the main character and the addition of Irish Sidhe folklore made this a really fun read. Yes, there was the usual "no one tells me the new rules" and "stop being so possessive of me, hottie dude" that seems to be in a lot of para-normal romances. But, the author gives us lots of "wink, wink, I know this i
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Dec 01, 2010
Daffodil
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Quick, light-hearted read. The characters are funny and engaging, the romance is believable. It wasn't quite what I expected though. The title and blurb made me think that the plot would center around Jessica adjusting to life as a vampire mom. It doesn't; the kids barely make an appearance. The main focus is on Jessica learning to use her vampire abilities, Jessica dealing with issues from her failed marriage, the realationship between Jessica and Patrick and the struggle between two vampi
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Jun 26, 2010
Jan
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This is a favorite book of mine and this was a reread just for the fun of it. I don't know about you, but I have a few I keep around just to reread because they are so funny.
Broken Heart, Oklahoma is a small town that's on the edge of death until one night a creature gets out and turns several of the townspeople into Vampires. Jessica Matthews, divorced, mother of two wonders what is going on when she wakes up after taking out the trash sucking on a good looking vampire's thigh. More...
Broken Heart, Oklahoma is a small town that's on the edge of death until one night a creature gets out and turns several of the townspeople into Vampires. Jessica Matthews, divorced, mother of two wonders what is going on when she wakes up after taking out the trash sucking on a good looking vampire's thigh. More...
Aug 31, 2009
Krista
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This is the first book in the Broken Heart Vampires series and I liked it enough that I'll read the second book. There were parts that had me laughing out loud with the snappy dialogue. It wasn't all doom and gloom as some vampire stories can be.
Beware though that there are quite a few pretty explicit sex scenes. I know that's pretty typical for this genre, but the cover looks so benign. I mean it's a suburban housewife that the story centers around. Sheesh. Some readers might More...
Beware though that there are quite a few pretty explicit sex scenes. I know that's pretty typical for this genre, but the cover looks so benign. I mean it's a suburban housewife that the story centers around. Sheesh. Some readers might More...
Apr 29, 2011
Shahd
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Hilarious! Reminded me of MaryJanice Davidson!
Honestly my favorite paragraph is in her acknowledgments
"My husband, Dean, deserves a paid vacation to Tahiti. He took care of everything so I could finish this book. He bought me Starbucks Peppermint Mochas. He brought me chocolate. He bought me hugs. He listened to me whine and made me take much-needed breaks when my eyes glazed over and my fingers went numb. Every writer needs a Dean. (But you can't have mine. Go find yo More...
Honestly my favorite paragraph is in her acknowledgments
"My husband, Dean, deserves a paid vacation to Tahiti. He took care of everything so I could finish this book. He bought me Starbucks Peppermint Mochas. He brought me chocolate. He bought me hugs. He listened to me whine and made me take much-needed breaks when my eyes glazed over and my fingers went numb. Every writer needs a Dean. (But you can't have mine. Go find yo More...
