BITING IS SO LAST SEASON.
A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively s... read full description
A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively s... read full description
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Jan 15, 2009
Christine
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So the narrator is a little bit too much of a Valley Girl, despite aristocratic French roots. So she talks obsessively about designer goods. (Which I'm not entirely opposed to, by the way.) Still, I found myself interested in the book. It puts a slightly different twist on the whole vampire lore while still being pretty funny. Honestly, the storytelling style kind of reminds me of the Jen Lancaster books --- which you must read if you haven't.
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Dec 31, 2009
Tara
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2.5, another upbeat it was ok. I think the thing that really turned me off to this book is that fact that the narrator was not the kind of person (or Vamp) I like spending time with and since she's the voice of the story. I really don't follow clothes and fashions and so the constant interjections about what people were wearing started to get really old, really quick. Plus, it was hard to root for her to get the guy when I really didn't like her, and dreaded the thought of hearing their inter
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Jun 22, 2008
Anita
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Yuck! I recommend against reading this novel. It's chicklit paranormal romance, which I like, but it's poorly done. The characters are not particularly loveable, the fashion references seem extraneous, and there are enough inconsistancies in the book to think that it desparately needs a good editor. The plotline was fine, and I liked the concepts behind most of the characters, but MaryJanice Davidson this author is not.
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Nov 29, 2008
Elizabeth
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BITING IS SO LAST SEASON.
A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively shades of pink to dismal black (soo not her color), plus she’s a hopeless romantic. In need of a steady paycheck to support a compulsive cosmetics habit, Lil starts Dead End Dating (DED), a Manhattan-based matchmaking service that helps smart, sophisticated singles like herself find eternity mates–and may even help her stake a claim to her very own More...
A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively shades of pink to dismal black (soo not her color), plus she’s a hopeless romantic. In need of a steady paycheck to support a compulsive cosmetics habit, Lil starts Dead End Dating (DED), a Manhattan-based matchmaking service that helps smart, sophisticated singles like herself find eternity mates–and may even help her stake a claim to her very own More...
Oct 16, 2011
Jody
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Sep 10, 2011
readinrobin
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A quick read, that was enjoyable for the most part. The author puts her on spin on vamp mythology, with two classs of vamps, born vamps, and made vamps, who do not intermarry. Born vamps can have children with their eternal mate, and when choosing a mate they don't consider love or feelings. A female looks for a mate with a high fertility rating, and a male looks for a mate with a high OQ - orgasm quotient - as the more orgasms she have in a single session of love making, the more eggs she can p
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Sep 12, 2009
Corinne
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After a slow start, the story eventually drew me in. This first book in the "Dead end dating" series follows the story of Lil, a born vampire (as opposed to a made vampire) and her quest to be a matchmaker for humans, vampires, and "others". Humans don't know about any of the other species wandering the planet. Lil runs into a little wrinkle when she is attracted to a made vampire (Ty), which is strictly taboo in born vampire society.
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May 26, 2009
Kathleen
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Dead End Dating (DED) the kind of book to which I turn when I know that I need to laugh or need something to make me smile. DED is a lighthearted paranormal that pokes fun at fashion mavens, glam girls, and entrepreneurial business people through its over-the-top heroine, Lil Marchette. As silly as Lil can be sometimes, she stills manages to win you over with her efforts to reach out to Francis, a geeky 1,036-year old born vamp, and Esther Crutch, a robust-figured made vamp who was turned shortl
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Jan 08, 2009
Lori
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A pleasant chick-lit paranormal. Lili is fun, though the "voice" is even a bit casual even by chick-lit standards. A 500 year old "born" vampire (vastly superior to "made" ones) with a preference for pink, and expensive body bronzer, she refuses to work for her father's chain of copy stores, and starts a dating service for the dead and humans, and anybody else who is lonely. It doesn't go smoothly! Then she meets a "made" vampire bounty hunter, on the
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Feb 05, 2010
Chelle
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This book is disappointing in both plot and character. The 'heroine' acts and sounds like a bratty, materialistic child - instead of a five-hundred-year old vamp from a wealthy and prominent family. (Every time she denounced something "SO totally over," or "last season," my eye twitched.) She's also extremely conceited and over-describes every designer outfit she's wearing. And since I didn't like her, why would I care at all about her clothes?
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Mar 27, 2011
Gaby
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The Dead End Dating series is...just alright. The books don't have enough oomph. Not enough thrills. Not even enough love IMO, though the main character is a matchmaker. The summary and mythology sound great on paper, but much of the dialogue is quite repetitive.
After having read the first four books, and part of the 5th, my single biggest complaint is how often a designer brand is thrown about in the books. Yes, Kimberly, I wholly understand that Lil Marchette is gaga for Gucci, Chane More...
After having read the first four books, and part of the 5th, my single biggest complaint is how often a designer brand is thrown about in the books. Yes, Kimberly, I wholly understand that Lil Marchette is gaga for Gucci, Chane More...
Oct 26, 2010
Renee
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I liked this book. The storyine capitalizes on the idea of a vampire looking for "happily ever after" with a twist. Lil (I won't use her whole name...it's way long) has the same issue with parents thinking they know what's best for their children the rest of us humans or other preternatural creatures encounter. Who wouldn't admire a gal with enough hutzpuh to start her own business, a dating service that finds love matches. While this book sits on the romance fence, it is a sweet, ligh
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Dec 04, 2008
Cute romance a la Mary Janice Davidson. Lil is a 500 year old born vampire who is totally into fashion and in love with love - very un-vampire like. Her parents want her to work at one of their Midnight Moe's (a copy shop) franchises. She wants to run her new matchmaking service - Dead End Dating. In the process she matches up some couples, lusts after a made vampire, and helps solve a crime. [return][return]While cute, it's not perfect. Lil is a bit one note about the fashion thing. The s
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Apr 08, 2010
April 8, 2010
I really did my best. I read 108 pages but I simply cannot anymore. It might be the fact that I'm reading German translation...but maybe the book is really not good. Who knows maybe one day.....
March 31. Got this book at the local library today. Was embarrased by my almost six year old son whose comment, after seeing what I was checking out, was: MOMMY CAN YOU READ ANY BOOKS WITH NO VAMPIRES! The librarian gave me a smile ;-) and I was crimson red. This is w More...
I really did my best. I read 108 pages but I simply cannot anymore. It might be the fact that I'm reading German translation...but maybe the book is really not good. Who knows maybe one day.....
March 31. Got this book at the local library today. Was embarrased by my almost six year old son whose comment, after seeing what I was checking out, was: MOMMY CAN YOU READ ANY BOOKS WITH NO VAMPIRES! The librarian gave me a smile ;-) and I was crimson red. This is w More...
Aug 19, 2009
Anica
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Oh boy, this book started really promising...and went down the drain really quick. *sigh*
Maybe it was predictable since I am not a huge fan of woman who only think of shoes, brands, clothes, brands, how awesome they look, brands...oh and have I mentioned brands?
Seriously, did this author get money for mentioning every possible fashion designer, make up label, shoe designer and what not? I believe so.
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Maybe it was predictable since I am not a huge fan of woman who only think of shoes, brands, clothes, brands, how awesome they look, brands...oh and have I mentioned brands?
Seriously, did this author get money for mentioning every possible fashion designer, make up label, shoe designer and what not? I believe so.
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Jul 26, 2010
E_northman
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Normally I am a sucker (no pun intended) for any kind of vampire fiction, but I have had a hard time getting into this one. The main reason is probably that Lil, the heroine, was not my cup of tea. She is too superficial, conceited ("he's a MADE vampire") and her endless descriptions on what everybody is wearing are tiresome. While a little bit of shallowness (see Vampire Queen Betsy) can be funny, this was not the case here. I'm not entirely sure yet whether I should even read the sec
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Dec 15, 2009
Steph
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I have read all of MaryJanice Davidson's Undead series, really enjoy all of Michele Bardsley's Broken Heart, OK series and could look past a lot of Marty's babbling about color-wheels in Dakota Cassidy's Accidental Friends series, but this one ... I just don't know if I will read any add'l books in the series. That would definitely be a first for me - once I read book 1, if it's a series, I gotta read the rest. I have had this book on my TBR list for a long time and an Oct reading challenge ga
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Sep 15, 2011
Jaime
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This was a fun read, but there’s not a lot of substance to it. You can draw some comparisons between this and MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead series, but not a lot of them. Lil and Betsy are really only similar in that they are very style conscious. Otherwise, Lil is *much* less annoying.
Raye’s vampires are either made or born that way, and there isn’t a lot of mixing between the two. And the general population has no idea they exist. Lil is a born vampire who believes in love, and she’s More...
Raye’s vampires are either made or born that way, and there isn’t a lot of mixing between the two. And the general population has no idea they exist. Lil is a born vampire who believes in love, and she’s More...
Jul 11, 2008
Daelith
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Apr 18, 2008
Jackie
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Lil Marchette is breaking with traditions of her born vamp family and looking ot make her own way. She starts a match-making server called Dead End Dating to help other vamps and humans find The One.
She takes on a project, a vamp client named Francis, in an effort to re-make him and find him a mate. In the mean time, she's dodging the men her mother tries to fix her up with and struggles to get her business off the ground.
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She takes on a project, a vamp client named Francis, in an effort to re-make him and find him a mate. In the mean time, she's dodging the men her mother tries to fix her up with and struggles to get her business off the ground.
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Aug 08, 2009
Starling
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Written at page 8: Very much in the MaryJanice Davidson school of vampire books. Very light and rather funny. I'm not turned off by the materialism of the character (and by page 8, which is where I am, I would have been). It sounds cute so far and I'm going to continue to read.
Written at page 150: I got about half way through the book. And my review probably has more to do with me than with the author. It was OK. I just can't say I liked it, so 2 stars, not three.
Written at page 150: I got about half way through the book. And my review probably has more to do with me than with the author. It was OK. I just can't say I liked it, so 2 stars, not three.
Nov 05, 2009
Margaret
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Every time my mom visits, she brings me a stack of books. Some are thought-provoking and life-changing. Some are like this one.
It's goofy and cute and girly and funny. It's not difficult to read - in fact, I accidentally read this one in about 3 hours, because it was just light enough to keep me entertained without being annoying. Well played, Kimberly Raye.
Plus, it was near Halloween. I deserve a pass for that reason alone.
It's goofy and cute and girly and funny. It's not difficult to read - in fact, I accidentally read this one in about 3 hours, because it was just light enough to keep me entertained without being annoying. Well played, Kimberly Raye.
Plus, it was near Halloween. I deserve a pass for that reason alone.
Aug 27, 2008
Amanda
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My best friend gave me this series to read and warned me that the first book was okay but the rest were worth reading. So I was prepared to not really like this book from the beginning. It was better than I anticipated but still not great. The charcater of Lil really irked me with her self-centeredness and obsession with clothes. I mean, she gets staked and the first thing she is worried about is her dress! Just a little too shallow for me (and I like shallow, love the Becky Bloomwood serie
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Jan 17, 2012
Yodamom
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Started Dead end Dating by Kimberly Raye got to 30% and am dropping it ! It reads like a silly copy of the Undead series by MJDaivson. (a series I enjoyed in the early books)The main character is fashion/labels/looks obsessed, she turns into a pink bat ?!? I found myself skipping paragraphs, forcing myself to turn the page, time to quit. Just a big fat DUH from me.
Feb 18, 2009
Sonja
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I thought this was a fun and playful take on the vampire universe. I enjoyed the voice of the protagonist and had a few laugh-out-loud moments. My only complaint is one that I have about most chick-lit: There’s no neatly tied up Happily Ever After! Still, great fun for a quick summer read.
May 20, 2009
Heather
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I'd give it 2 1/2 stars if this site allowed it. It wasn't great, it wasn't awful. I agree with the PP who stated this author is not MaryJanice Davidson -- definitely not as good as the Queen Betsy series. That being said, it had it's humorous moments. Not a bad book for a very light, beachy type read.
Aug 04, 2009
Deirdre
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Lil Marchette is your "new" vampire, she's not into wearing black, likes shoes and modern clothes, and is ditzy. When given a choice between joining the family copy-shop and finding a new career she decides that a new career is good, the new career she decides on is matchmaking, for both the undead and the live.
In this world there are two kinds of undead, the born undead and the made undead, there's a real class struggle between the two and she's a born undead so when she m More...
In this world there are two kinds of undead, the born undead and the made undead, there's a real class struggle between the two and she's a born undead so when she m More...
Nov 30, 2009
Amy
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I'm not enough of a fashionista to really appreciate Lil and Nina One's craziness of designers. It was a little distracting for me. I won't be racing to the library to get more of Lil, but I'll probably read Dead and Dateless at some point.
Mar 28, 2009
Andrea
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I enjoyed this book. There was nothing serious about it. There was a little mystery, a little romance and a lot of humor. A perfect, light read. I can't wait to read the next book in the series!
Aug 08, 2010
Amanda
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This was a quick read and it made me laugh. If you want to something light and fun this is for you. Lil is a great character who makes you question just what she is going to get into next.
