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The Bite Before Christmas

Heidi Betts

Start date: December 16, 2017

Finish date: December 23, 2017

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Why we're reading this: Winter Holiday Event
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Jan 25, 2011 Belles rated it liked it

Predictable, but it's exactly what I wanted to read. ...more

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Dec 11, 2012 Nichole ~Bookaholic~ rated it liked it

Shelves: freebies, pnr-uf, holiday-themed

This one has been in my TBR FOREVER,...There are three separate stories that are all connected, the last two more so then the first one but they were all pretty good.

Of the three I think I liked the first one best and wish there had been a bit more to it....the second one...Sean was an asshat...and I think Vivian should have really made him work to get her after what he pulled (you will need to read to find out)...and the last one was the vampire version of Its a Wonderful Life...entertaining... ...more

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Nov 02, 2010 Yodamom rated it liked it

A cute romance of three different para-couples. It was almost like three short novels, tied together at the end. I found it somewhat predictable and even corny at times but was a fun engaging light read. Sex is graphically described but not over done.

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Dec 30, 2018 Wealie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 0-purchased, challenge-read, 0-kindle, 0-audible, anthology, short-story, listened

3 🌟🌟🌟 - but only just! A predictable and ropey trilogy of loosely connected Vampire Christmas stories.

All I vant for Christmas wasn’t bad, but pretty predictable and not very steamy.

A Vampire in her Stocking was marginally more interesting, but I couldn’t get past the male protagonist being called ‘Sean Spicer’! I kept imagining Melissa McCarthy on her moving podium from this year’s SNL skits. This rather took me out of the story and made it hard to take the character seriously.

It’s a W ...more

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Oct 20, 2010 Melindeeloo rated it liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance, vampires, friendable, christmas

Three holiday themed vampire romances all by Betts in this anthology.
And best of all, I scored this as a Kindle freebie when Amazon dropped their price to 0 for a few days -
This was lightweight paranormal fun, I really liked the first two stories. The last one which is a spin on a Wonderful Life for the vamps leads, was not my favorite - the affair bugged me.

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