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One Bite With A Stranger by Christine Warren

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Oct 18, 08

bookshelves: 2008, paranormal, vampires, romance
Read in October, 2008

Regina is still getting over her breakup with cheating Greg when her four friends, Ava, Corrine, Missy and Danice, decide it's her turn to be "fixed" - the Fantasy Fix, where they make a fantasy come true for one of them. It's Reggie's turn and they won't hear no, so she writes down some nonsense fantasies like being abducted by aliens and being seduced by a vampire, but then runs out of ideas and puts down a real fantasy: being spanked, bound and dominated.

Her friends take her to the Vampire Ball where people dress up and pretend, but Reggie doesn't hang around to meet the man Ava's set up for her: she's been captivated by a dark, handsome stranger with psychic powers. They end up back at her apartment where some really sexy things go down, and he - Dmitri Vidame, born 1199 - comes to realise that she's his mate, and no one else is going to have her.

This is a short, quick book to read, entertaining and sexy and with just enough of a subplot to maintain it without crowding out the sex. Let's face it, that's what we really want, right? Well Warren delivers! There's nothing fancy about the prose, the characters aren't particularly strongly developed, but the chemistry between Misha (Dmitri) and Regina is intense enough that none of that really matters. And I liked the dig at Feehan's Carpathian books: "He needed no woman to return light and joy to his life, nor did he require love to keep him from turning evil as he aged" (p126) - it made me laugh :D I appreciated Warren taking the vampires back to the basics, and I like these books when they combine various kinds of supernatural beings like werewolves and faeries etc. There's an honesty and simplicity to this story that helps ground it in the growing relationship between two people. Definitely recommended.

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Mahlet Great review! I'm a sucker for well-done vampire romances, and this sounds like a winner.


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