Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires, #2) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Oct 26, 2010 Francesca the Fierce (Under the Covers Book Blog) rated it really liked it

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Book 2 in the Chicagoland series takes place right after book 1. Things have not changed much. Merit moves in to the House. She is starting to execute her job as enforcer much more naturally. The main concern in this book is the investigation of raves, where supposedly vampires are doing mass feedings.

We start involving even more races into this political story by bringing in the weres. And we also bring in an old ex-boyfriend of Merit's.

There's still plenty of sexual tension between Ethan and ...more

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Sep 20, 2011 Michelle rated it really liked it

While reading this book I found myself making predictions about how this series is going to play out based on my reading experience. And you, lucky reader, get to see them! Aren't you excited? I am too! Here we go!
Prediction 1: (Oh my heck, now I can't remember any of them! Crap! Wait, found it.) Lindsey will be killed in the near future. This is because Merit has too many girl friends, and Mallory is not expendable, seeing as how she has her woo-woo stuff. Lindsey is just a secondary character, While reading this book I found myself making predictions about how this series is going to play out based on my reading experience. And you, lucky reader, get to see them! Aren't you excited? I am too! Here we go!
Prediction 1: (Oh my heck, now I can't remember any of them! Crap! Wait, found it.) Lindsey will be killed in the near future. This is because Merit has too many girl friends, and Mallory is not expendable, seeing as how she has her woo-woo stuff. Lindsey is just a secondary character, and Merit will end up going through the loss of a bestie without really losing out on anything.
Prediction 2: (Am I doing this bold thing right? Help me out here people!) Ethan's former flame who is now a Master will come back after he and Merit get it on, and jealousy and cheating suspicions will ensue. It's either this chick whose name escapes me, or Morgan, and let's face it. Morgan isn't much of a threat to Ethan much to my disappointment. Whatever. He deserves better than Merit. And who better than me, of course? Anyways, as a plot device, I abhor the Return of The Ex above all others. Except cheating. I gave up a wonderful-up-to-that-point tv show (Moonlight, in case you were wondering) because of it. Get your freaking head on straight idiot! Your wife is psychotic! She tried to kill a little girl! She used you! You have Beth right in front of you! And Beth! You are a bloody idjit!) Where was I? Yeah, someone who slept with one of the pair will come back and be a Relationship Obstacle. (See how I put it in caps there? That's right.) By the way, totally screwed up the bold thing and now I can't turn it off. Yippee.
Prediction 3: Merit and Ethan will get in a fight and she'll go running away like the mature bee itch she is. Possibly a precluder to the Return of the Ex, which causes even more Relationship Obstacles. Enough said.
I'm sure there was a number 4 and 5, but Tom Smith from the Editors is distracting me with his lovely, lovely voice. Still prefer Kevin Grevioux's voice though. Ooooh, can you imagine him singing? Look him up. He gives me shivers. ...more

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Aug 07, 2010 Gina rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Oct 09, 2010 Diane ~Firefly~ rated it really liked it

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I liked this one more than the first. I enjoyed learning more about the characters and Merit's family. It was nice to see Merit use her researching skills. There are still some loose ends that need tied up, so I'm looking forward to the next book. ...more

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Nov 21, 2010 Vivian rated it really liked it

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This is still a good book, and I'm excited to continue this series, but there were definitely parts that bugged me. Mainly, Merit was a little frustrating, with her pushing everyone away and not being able to open up. Also not crazy about the love triangle and hope it resolves itself soon. Story wise, interesting, if a bit political for my taste. Overall, still a lot of the same wit and sarcasm, and pop culture references to boot. I mean, how often does anyone bring up Newsies?? ...more

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Oct 19, 2010 Regina rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2010-reads, owned-kindle, urban-fantasy-uf

4.5 stars. Review to come. Loving this series.

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Jun 14, 2011 Karen rated it liked it

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Really more a 3.5 and looking forward to the next installment in the series. This second book felt a bit like a transition entry and was a bit slower in plot while still loads of fun in style.

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