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    <body><![CDATA[This is Book One of Katie MacAlister's &quot;The Dark Ones&quot; series.  I was really looking forward to reading this series, since as everyone knows, I'm crazy about vamp novels (grin).  <br/><br/>Yet this one just wasn't clicking for me.  The timing of the humor was off and felt forced.  The se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9841141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm, maybe it's my mood but I'm finding the heroine in this book snarky and immature as opposed to &quot;witty&quot; and &quot;fun&quot; as I've seen her described elsewhere. Maybe I'm just a grouch but she's managed to lampoon Wiccan's and Goth's and romance reader's in a way that is more insultin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80973870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a really good book...kinda of like twilight love triangle exept she falls in love with jacob instead of edward (that is not their real names in the story)and he is not wa werewolf...just a regular human! Oh and this book has some very detailed &quot;dirty&quot; parts that i had no clue were in there...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10642432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely LOVED this book, and boy did it ever take me by surprise. Over the last few weeks, i've found myself having a hard time finding a book that could hold my interest after the first 100 pages or so.. That was so not the case with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50788.A_Girl_s_Guide_to_Vampires_Dark_Ones_1_" title="A Girl's Guide to Vampires (Dark Ones, #1) by Katie MacAlister">A Girl's Guide To Vampires</a>...i devoured this book in less th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53920066">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I wasn't really stirred one way or another when I was reading the book - it was a way to pass the time at work.  The obvious spoof on Christine Feehan's Carpathian novels was funny (because you know how formulaic those are), but the two main female characters irritated the absolute ever-lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29959386">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Joy Randall's Top 5 Tips for Vampire Hunters: 1. Location, location, location. Remember, if you wouldn't be there, neither would a bloodsucker. 2. Trust your eyes. You know the handsome, annoyingly arrogant, self-assured man in the shadows with long hair and a cleft in his chin? He's your vampire. 3. No matter how tempting it might be, do not &quot;accidentally&quot; acquire a paper cut and suggest YOUR VAMPIRE kiss your finger to make it better. 4. From here on out, play it cool. Don't offer to accompany your prince of the night on the talk show circuit and whatever you do, don't offer him your heart. 5. And most of all, remember?being a vampire is nothing to laugh about.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read many reviews about this book before deciding to read it. And I have to say the first 50 pages didn't fulfill my expectations. I was prepared for a story about vampires and the main characters thinks they don't exist. When Joy realizes that she stumbled headfirst in a dark world of paranormal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62007097">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Joy Randall's Top 5 Tips for Vampire Hunters: 1. Location, location, location. Remember, if you wouldn't be there, neither would a bloodsucker. 2. Trust your eyes. You know the handsome, annoyingly arrogant, self-assured man in the shadows with long hair and a cleft in his chin? He's your vampire. 3. No matter how tempting it might be, do not &quot;accidentally&quot; acquire a paper cut and suggest YOUR VAMPIRE kiss your finger to make it better. 4. From here on out, play it cool. Don't offer to accompany your prince of the night on the talk show circuit and whatever you do, don't offer him your heart. 5. And most of all, remember?being a vampire is nothing to laugh about.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was okay for a first book in a series.<br/><br/>The book was a light read.  No serious vampire history in this book.  I enjoyed the plot of the story and the book got better in the last 100 pages.  It had its funny moments.  It had hot romance.<br/><br/>The only things I didnt like abo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78603935">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I so enjoyed Noble Intentions, I didn't wait to try another book by Katie MacAlister.  I think she is a humorous, inventive.  Since I was feeling like I had been in a rut, reading mostly historical romances, I decided to try one of her contemporary/paranormal books.<br/><br/>This was fine.  MacAli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76741370">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was beyond awful. Couldn't get past the first 100 pages it was so impenitrable. The relationship between the friends was irritating, the story was difficult to follow, and although the book sounded interesting initially - when executed the concept was ridiculous. <br/><br/>The only good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53365739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read the Aisling Grey series, and enjoyed it, but I couldn't even finish &quot;A Girl's Guide to Vampires.&quot;  It seemed like it was trying to be a vampire romance parody and a vampire romance at the same time, and the side characters were extremely irritating.  It just didn't work for me.]]></body>
    
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