Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men (Jane Jameson, Book 2) by Molly Harper is another wacky adventure for newly turned vampire Jane Jameson. Aided by Mating Rituals and Love Customs of the Were, Jane has been tapped to serve as maid of honor for her best friend, Zeb, and his werewolf fiancee, Jolene. There are strange going-ons in the hollow and someone seems to be trying to sabotage Jolene's Titanic themed dream wedding with artificial iceberg. Meanwhile, Jane's Grandma Ruthie, a serial widow with four late husbands, buries Grandpa Bob, her fiance of five years (who gets the Ruthie special funeral even though they weren't legally wed) and meets number six at the funeral. Jane is convinced that there is something off with number six and another mystery unfolds.

By the end, all mysteries are solved, and true love prevails. There is an abundance of interesting secondary characters including, once again, Jane's crazy relatives, and assorted living and dead Half Moon Hollow residents. Jane's relationship with Gabriel progress nicely, but Gabriel remains a man of mystery which sets up the third book, Nice Girls Don't Live Forever, to be published January 2010.

I liked the first book a little better than this book, but only by a slight margin. I am still giving this one five stars.

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Jane Jameson, Book 1) by Molly Harper is a wonderful book with an average Jane earthy sort of humor. Jane, who has been fired from her job as a children's librarian at the Half Moon Hollow Public Library, buries her sorrows in a few too many electric lemonades at Shenanigans, a local bar. After her fourth (fifth? sixth?) electric lemonade she meets Mr. Yummy, Gabriel Nightengale. After a charming interlude with Gabriel and a lot of coffee, Jane heads home only to have her car break down on a deserted country road. She falls into a muddy ditch, and as pushed up on all fours, she is mistaken for an eight point deer by Bud McElray. Jane is fatally wounded only to wake up to find herself as one of the undead.

It turns out that Jane has been turned into a vampire by the yummy Gabriel. The hilarity is nonstop as Jane learns how to “live” as a vampire with help from the The Guide for the Newly Dead, a gift basket from a vampire welcoming committee, the ghost of her dead Aunt Jettie, her best friend Zeb, and her sire, Gabriel. Jane also has her share of crazy relatives, and assorted colorful small town characters, living and dead, with whom she has to deal.

Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs is a refreshing new take on vamp novels, and a delightful addition to the humorous paranormal romance subgenre. I am recommending this book to other readers who like a good belly laugh and giving it five stars.

As of Friday, this one is now in my TBR pile. I sure hope I get to read it this month!

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Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs(Jane Jameson, Book 1) by Molly Harper