Undead and Unwed (Undead, #1) in Around the World in 80 Books

Nov 01, 2019 Nancy H rated it it was ok

I am not normally a fan of vampire fiction, but did enjoy the humor and lightheartedness (if that adjective can be used for vampires!) of the characters and the plot.

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Dec 25, 2012 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: vampires, chick-lit

I really wanted to like this book, but I really don't. I just don't like chick lit. The heroine is ridiculously shallow - she almost completely lost me in the first few chapters because she was so concerned with superficial crap like what kind of shoes she had on. And okay it got a little better, but it also makes me so angry - the heroine is consistently a shallow superficial nitwit, who seems to have confused stubbornness with "charmingly spunky" - and this is how so many chick lit books go. S ...more

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Oct 07, 2018 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: humor, romance, minnesota, paranormal-romance, paranormal, read-in-2018, vampires

Betsy Taylor gets fired from her job as a secretary then killed by a car while trying to rescue her cat. Next thing she knows she wakes up in a funeral home. She can't kill herself and realizes she is now a vampire, but an unusual one who is immune to holy water and who can stand in the sun. She's soon drawn into a clash between the local vampire leader Nostro and sexy vampire Sinclair who thinks Betsy is the prophesied queen of the vampires. Betsy is a bit annoying at times with how shallow she ...more

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May 06, 2009 Whittney rated it really liked it

Comparable to the Southern Vampire novels by Charlaine Harris in the overall feel of the story.

Betsy didn't want to be a vampire, and she definitely doesn't want to lead a coup to overthrow the evil local vamp overlord, Nostro. All Betsy wants is to get on with her un-life and get her designer shoes back from her backstabbing stepmother. Unfortunately for Betsy, a rival pack of vamps believes her to be a fortold vampire queen and they won't take no for an answer. ...more

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Aug 29, 2007 Doina rated it really liked it

Shelves: twinkie-books

i picked this book in an airport that did not have a bookstore with a huge selection of books. i have to say that i was laughing so hard, and with the exception of the ending, i enjoyed it so much that i had to pick up the rest in the series. what's not to love, an indestructible vampire queen, who's a ditz and doesn't fit the image of a vampire queen, and has a shoe fetish? i am still laughing about it while i am writing this review. ...more

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