I'm the Vampire, That's Why (Broken Heart Vampires, #1)

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I'm the Vampire, That's Why (Broken Heart Vampires #1)

by Michele Bardsley (Goodreads Author)

3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 · rating details · 4,920 ratings · 307 reviews

Broken Heart is the city with the highest rate of divorce and highest percentage of single parents in Oklahoma. And I, Jessica Matthews, have been a member of that club ever since my husband dumped me for his twentysomething secretary and then had the gall to die in a car accident.

Now I’m not just a single mother trying to make ends meet in this crazy world....I’m also a v...more

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Published September 5th 2006 by Signet Eclipse

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Apr 07, 2011 Archer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal-romance

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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 her is caught. Meanwhile, she's havin...more

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Aug 23, 2008 Janice (Janicu) rated it 3 of 5 stars

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...more

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Jun 11, 2013 Plutomeisje rated it 1 of 5 stars

Het was al een tijdje geleden dat ik aan dit boek begonnen was om het uiteindelijk, nog geen vierde ver, weg te leggen en op zoek te gaan naar iets beters. Ik had het daar wellicht beter laten liggen, want hoe hoopvol ik ook was, de rest van het boek werd er niet beter op. Het verhaal op zich is nog niet zo slecht, er zit potentieel in, maar het is gewoon niet goed geschreven.

Het hoofdpersonage vindt zichzelf vooral hilarisch en gevat, terwijl ze dit helaas niet is (eerder dom en irrationeel)....more

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Mar 30, 2013 Jemma Gutierrez rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: funny-heroine, magic, surprise-surprise, swoon-and-sigh, vampire, not-favorite-but-worth-noting-for, hilarious, fave-series-but-not-fave-books

Truth to be told, I was not sure I’d like this book when I first downloaded it to my trustee calibre. Some of the chick-lits that are supposed to be funny are either really funny or annoying. I am glad to say this is a satisfying and fun read.

The heroines voice, was thank goodness not annoying and whiny; though it reminds me of an amusing, teenager with a sarcastic and snarky humour. It gets irritating and rubs me off the wrong way every now and then because she keeps acting more like a child t...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Noodle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal-romance, vampires

This was a lot of fun. I just felt like a humorous read and couldn't have chosen better.

Jessica Matthews is a single mother with a bit of baggage who gets caught up in a vampire/lycanthrope invasion into her home town of Broken Heart. Through her hilarious outlook on life, quick wit and penchant for embarrassing situations, this was one happy little page turner.

Definitely not to be considered if you are after a book you can get your teeth into, but if - like me - you feel like a little light-we...more

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Nov 24, 2011 Myvampfiction added it

Reviewed by SarahBella

*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 the ten other Broken H...more

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Oct 26, 2011 Traci rated it 1 of 5 stars

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???
Just like when she woke the first night she noticed her heart wasn’t b...more 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???
Just like when she woke the first night she noticed her heart wasn’t beating (along with not breathing, but I’ll get to that later) then a couple paragraphs later her heart was pounding, then it was noted that if her heart beat it would’ve trembled, then it went back to she had no heart beat, back to heart hammering. I never knew what the hell was going on the author changed her own “rules” so often. It was very irritating, if you are going to write your supernaturals one way, then by god keep them that way, or at least give a reason why everything changes and is so sporadic. I hate when authors are too lazy to keep up with their own stories, and contradicting yourself in your book is bad enough but when it happens in the same chapter! Shit that’s just bad business.
At one point she was so “hungry” her fangs popped out of her gums twice in a small amount of time, then she went forever without feeding, at least another whole day. Like a lot of other things in this story, something would come up, made a point of and then forgotten. Like her constantly wishing she could breathe, the author brought up Numerous times she couldn’t breathe even if she tried, yet she could speak, and how can you even speak without any breath, that doesn’t make any sense. If she just didn’t have to breathe, and only did so occasionally to talk or dramatically sigh, ok I would understand that, but it was pointed out so many times that she couldn’t, at all. But somehow other vampires were able to sigh when they were irratated. It was very annoying.

It also had one of the fastest insta-love/jealosy whatever it is - ever. I mean good lord, I know authors have gotten a little lazy with romance, and a lot of stories lately have “insta-love” but shit, this couple was hands down one of the fastest. In the very beginning before anything at all had really even happened between the h/h, she broken a couple fingers on another woman’s hand for literally just putting her hand on the heroes arm, and this was only 24 hours after the heroine had met him, and most of those hours she was asleep or turning! (at least 20 of those hrs) That is CRAZY!
‘I crawled onto the bed and debated whether or not I should use the last vestiges of willpower to undress. Nope. Not gonna happen. If I was lucky, Patrick would join me, de-clothe me, and… well… keep his mitts off me. I didn't need to have sex with him. But I wanted to.’ This quote is from her 2nd night of her “re-birth” or whatever, she has only known him for roughly 24-36 hrs!!!

And then the hero a 4,000 year old vampire, give me a break. That just wasn’t believable given what we knew about him. 400 maybe but 4,000, just no. That was just pushing it to far for me. And she was suppose to be 36. She acted more like a 16 yr old.
‘I caused the people in my life no amount of frustration because I was, as my mother said, "one who mulled too much." I liked to roll things around in my head before I made a decision.’
Bullshit, this woman thought 90% of the time about the hero. She seemed pretty impulsive to me, doing what she wanted when she wanted with no thought process at all. And she flitted around from one thought to the next with out really ever dwelling on anything, including her kids, maybe especially her kids before her thoughts would circle back to lusting after Patrick. In one part of the book, and this is where I actually stopped because I could no longer take it, her daughter who had just seen her for the 1st time in 3 days happened upon her in the garage/basement and seen her eyes glowing red with a pair of swords and fangs, so the little girl runs to her brothers room in hysterics, when Jessica (the mom/heroine) gets there and is trying to talk to her kids about what is going on and her “sickness” when Patrick slips into her mind to try and help her with what to tell her kids, and right in the middle she gets ‘A sensual thrill zipped up my spine.’ and that’s a direct line from the book! Literally right in the middle of seeing her “babies” for the 1st time in days, and having a monumental conversation with them to tell them she’s a vampire, and her panties are getting wet! Ew I just couldn’t take it anymore. And I am not one to DNF.

I’m sure there are plenty of people who loved this book, but I just couldn’t for the life of me finish or enjoy it. If I knew it was going to get better or improve I would've just kept on, but I just couldn't see that happening. It actually makes me a little sad, because I wanted so much to like this book, but I am forever grateful I didn't spend any money for this, and only borrowed the 1st in this series.
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Sep 24, 2011 Starry rated it 5 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Jessica gets killed by patricks crazy brother(his brother killed her by accident because he was so hungry) and so jessica of course, wakes up to be sucking on the thigh of patrick.
Patrick tells jessica afterwards about the ring that she wears.there is a legen around saying that whoever wears that ring(which was once patricks) is patricks mate.
Jessica has other issues to deal with also, like who was going to take care of her two chiildren bryan and jenny, and jessica has more in her plate when sh...more

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Sep 13, 2011 t'irla ~The BookSlayer~ rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who enjoys humor and vamps

Shelves: michele-bardsley, owned

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 set up offices since their...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Madame X rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: awful-do-not-read, paranormal-urban-fantasy, vampires

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 of the foll...more 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 of the following things: (1) The narrator finding out that vampires exist (2) The narrator finding out that she's dead (3) The narrator finding out that she's a vampire (4) The narrator coming to grips with the drinking of blood. The sum total of the narrator's reaction to these things is: Pretty crazy, huh?

Seriously, I don't care about the rules of her alternate reality if I'm not discovering it with the narrator, feeling it with the narrator, really getting involved in the STORY.

Her vampires are basically just superheroes with fangs. They have a laundry list of supernatural powers, they wake up from their Turning extra-gorgeous, and they don't seem to have any kind of noticeable personality change from their earlier, human selves - bloodlust is mild, no hunting instincts. So vampires either volunteer blood to one another, or else they feed off of donor humans, and it's all very civilized.

Jessica's romance with Patrick would be hot...if Bardsley hadn't pretty much spoiled it from the beginning. The reader discovers almost on the first page that Jessica is wearing a very special, very ancient ring and it has been prophesied for thousands of years that whoever next wore this ring is Patrick's soul-mate. Patrick believes in this prophesy, so he's instantly devoted to Jessica; and he's a really (almost tiresomely) nice guy. So there isn't a whole lot of tension to the romance; sure, it makes sense that Jessica needs a few days to think it over, and it sucks that they can't have sex while she thinks; and yes, she ought to wonder how her kids fit into the equation, but there's no real threat to their union, just a frustrating deferral.

What else? Too many characters, introduced too quickly, without enough personality. Over the top evil villains. Jessica pretty much ignores her kids throughout the novel (it's always, "Well, there goes another night without seeing my kids...good thing I know they'r safe!"), characters say and do things at inappropriate times and places (example: Evil Ex Girlfriend interrupts a war room powwow to tell Patrick, out of the blue, "We were good before, we could be again" - don't even Evil Ex Girlfriends have a sense of timing?). A real cop-out at the ending.

Bloodless? Absolutely.(less)

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Apr 23, 2011 Mrs. Missive rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2011

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 our belief a little.

Jessica i...more

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May 28, 2010 Cid Tyer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010-books, favorites

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 be both undead and a mother...more

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Jun 08, 2010 Alice Janell rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Alice by: Cid

Shelves: 2010

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 and, oh yea, letting he...more

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Feb 21, 2011 Clare rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: abandoned

There's a difference between fun, lighthearted vampire fiction and the ridiculous. This one was ridiculous. It had too many elements:

* 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 of heart and apologizes

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Jan 25, 2011 Paranormal Haven rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed-read-by-athenna

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 did not expect was the wild animal or...more

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Jan 01, 2009 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars

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 book wouldn...more

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Jul 25, 2012 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm the Vampire, That's Why was one of the funniest vampire books that I have read and enjoyed since I read the first Betsey Taylor book by Mary Janice Davidson. I picked this book up on a whim not knowing what to expect from a vampire mom that is part of the PTA. Jessica Matthews is a great heroine who is so relatable and easy to root for. She not only lives in the town Broken Heart, but she has also just had her heart broken with a cheating husband who died in the middle of their divorce. Bein...more

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Sep 22, 2011 Magda rated it 2 of 5 stars

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.

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Dec 04, 2008 Bitten_by_Books rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: lori

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 rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: vampires, romance

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 because MB did...more

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Jun 21, 2010 Bookwatcher ~Mary MooCow~ rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: vampires, paranormal-romance, very-funny

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, for example) to a vampire book.

Read it if you h...more

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Jun 30, 2011 Shawna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-drama-romances-comedies, series-books, adult-paranormal-or-paranormal-roma, rated-3-stars-or-above

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 different. A vampi...more 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 different. A vampire book from a Mom's perspective. Not just a mom but single mom. I don't have kids so I thought that perhaps I would have a hard time getting into the book and understanding her situation, but Michele Bardsley sucked me from the first chapter.

Jessica is a fantastic character. Not only does she have a sarcastic sense of humor (which I love in my female leads) she was independent and spoke her mind. She was realistic when it came to life and wasn't all rainbows/sunshine. She was character in a book that you could literally picture being a real person living next door to you. She was NORMAL besides the vampire thing. Her attitude was normal.

Then of coarse there is Patrick, which come on ladies who doesn't love a guy with an accent that whispers sweet nothing into your ear. He was fantastic. I loved the fact that he kind of took up the protector role when it came to Jessica's kids and never once flinched at the fact that she had kids. He was very supportive when it came to Jessica's decisions and never truly pressured her into anything she didn't want. He was comfortable with just being there for her, that was truly sweet.

Of coarse with any vampire book there has to be evil within the plot line of the story and honestly I even got a kick out of the evil vampire Ron. I loved the "fight scene". I loved how it was kind of like a MMA/Wrestling/Boxing match kind of deal with spectators.

The book had humor and was a light, fun, easy read. I couldn't help but like reading the book. My friend missed out. I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I did.(less)

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Mar 12, 2011 Amanda Croley rated it 3 of 5 stars

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. Within days, i...more

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Nov 01, 2008 Cornelia rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who likes paranormal romance or comedy romance

I loved this book, it’s so funny and warm. I couldn’t put it down. It’s a great fun, fast read and part of the storyline is drawn from Celtic mythology, which is a real plus to me.

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Jun 06, 2010 Quinnster rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010-booklist

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 of "achingly tau...more

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Jan 11, 2013 Sandra Valente rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013, adult, fiction, paranormal, humour

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Well, what an unexpected surprise! I'm the Vampire, That's Why sounded interesting, and after having it on my GR list for a while, I decided to finally give it a go. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Not only did it provide me with a wonderful romance, it was extremely entertaining. I guess I will be reading the second one titled Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire. I'll do this probably next month as I have a few that need t...more Read all my reviews on http://ssbookfanatics.blogspot.com

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Well, what an unexpected surprise! I'm the Vampire, That's Why sounded interesting, and after having it on my GR list for a while, I decided to finally give it a go. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Not only did it provide me with a wonderful romance, it was extremely entertaining. I guess I will be reading the second one titled Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire. I'll do this probably next month as I have a few that need tending.

If you are looking for a lighthearted read between reads, or are just waiting for a book to be released and you're not sure in which direction to go, then this one will fill the gap nicely. Don't expect huge amounts of suspense, or too much angst in this book although there is a fair amount. This is more humour than anything else. It is however, as I've just mentioned, very entertaining indeed. Okay, so one or two things somewhere or another didn't make sense to me, but heck this wasn't something that was going to stop me reading the book or make me huff and puff with annoyance. It was good, it made me laugh and that's what counts.

Jessica is like many of us are, a normal mom. Except that she's now single. Her loving husband left her for a much younger 'model' - his secretary - and made her pregnant. Before Jessica could mete out her 'revenge', he died. How very annoying. One night while taking out the trash, again, as her son 'forgot' as usual, she's attacked and wakes up sucking on a naked male's thigh. Okaaaay. His also chained, for his and her own good. His name Patrick (Padriag), he's Irish and he's 4 000 years old. This is beyond ancient. But, he's Irish, gorgeous, sweet, funny and well, awesome. Jessica wears a ring passed down to her, which had originally been his - eons ago. There's obviously an explanation for this, but one I won't get into here. Needless to say, she's his long awaited mate.

The premise of this story obviously revolves around their eventual union with mishaps thrown into the mix including a nasty jealous ex of Patrick's. Broken Heart is the town Jessica lives in, and it's the town Patrick and his parakind have chosen to make their home. They are hoping that they've managed to secure a fairly safe place away from yet another group who are called the Wraiths. Patrick has a twin brother, Lor, who has been poisoned with the 'Taint'. Lor is the one who sucked Jessica dry, including another ten people. Jessica is shocked to find she wasn't the only one. She is stumped though, when Charlene (the husband stealer) is one of them, too. A cure needs to be found for Lor, before something really horrible goes wrong. Meanwhile, more people have been found dead. Is it Lor? Or someone else with an ulterior motive.

We meet Patrick's father, the creator of their kind who turns out to be a kid at heart. He's really lovable. Who wouldn't want a grandfather like him. My hand's up. I would!

There is actually quite a bit going on in this story, as we must not forget Jessica's kids. Her attempt at an explanation scares her youngest daughter, but makes her son laugh out loud although he's weary at the same time. Would you believe your mom if she told you she was a vampire? I guess not.

I'm sure the attraction between Patrick and Jessica would be classed as insta-love, and it kind of is, but we are talking vampires and mating. We all know how it goes. I must say, though, that it takes a long while before Jessica makes up her mind if she wants to be bound to Patrick or not. It eventually hits her that she loves him, but she's still hesitant. Because I'm The Vampire, That's Why has the HEA we all want, and that always sits well with me.

I can't say this book wowed me to the point of goosebumps, but I can say that it was definitely worth my time, and it did provide me with some 'awww' moments.. If a book makes me feel good and happy that I read it, it's worth every single second. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it was mine. I look forward to the next one.(less)

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Apr 16, 2013 Deannie rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the first in the series of light-hearted humor and a mind boggling fast paced story of passion and revenge.

Jessica Matthews was dumped by her husband for a younger women leaving her with 2 kids. He goes and gets himself killed in an automobile accident while driving to the hospital for the delivery of his "other" child by his mistress.

Ever heard of the saying "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"???..... well do keep reading because this feisty little fire cracker, that cusses like a...more

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Mar 04, 2010 Mem rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: broken-heart-vampires, paranormal-romance, vampires

# 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 having trouble committing to Pat...more

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Jan 15, 2009 Shannon rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2009

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 for the hunky...more

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Jul 03, 2012 Kasumi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, paranormal, romance

A very entertaining series that it's sure fans of the genre chick-lit and paranormal will enjoy, which removes all possible worldly problems and the protagonist will be concerned with more "transcendental" issues as love, family and death.

Es un gran inicio para una serie entretenida que seguro disfrutarán las amantes del género chick-lit y paranormal, donde se eliminan todas las posibles inquietudes mundanas y la protagonista se preocupará por asuntos más "trascendentales" como el amor, la famil...more

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Nationally bestselling author Michele Bardsley spends her days creating fictional worlds because, let's face it, reality sucks. A prime example is that no one has yet to figure out how to make calorie-free chocolate. What's up with that? She received an associates degree in liberal arts, which was no help whatsoever for becoming a novelist or a decent housekeeper. She lives in Oklahoma with her so...more

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“Why are you naked?" "The better to feed you, m'dear." He pointed between his legs and my gaze roved along his cock. Then I saw his forefinger tapping his inner thigh. "Femoral artery." "Riiight. And the major vein in your neck wasn't good enough because… ?" One black brow winged up and those delicious lips curved into a naughty smile. "Ah. Because then I wouldn't have had an excuse to get naked.” — 15 people liked it

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Jessica:And that means what?
Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand.
Jessica: Oh. And that means what?
Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.” — 12 people liked it

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