Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires, #2) in Around the World in 80 Books

May 26, 2010 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it really liked it

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I had heard a lot of good things about this series and I am happy to say that it lived up to the hype. And I really enjoyed this, but I didn't love it. I did get more than a few Sookie Stackhouse vibes while I was reading this. The whole vamps exist revelation? Vamps mainstreaming? It did echo more than slightly of SS. But this deviates a lot, Merit is as much like Sookie as a breeze is like a hurricane and Chicago is a far cry from backwoods Louisiana. And speaking of Merit. I really enjoyed he I had heard a lot of good things about this series and I am happy to say that it lived up to the hype. And I really enjoyed this, but I didn't love it. I did get more than a few Sookie Stackhouse vibes while I was reading this. The whole vamps exist revelation? Vamps mainstreaming? It did echo more than slightly of SS. But this deviates a lot, Merit is as much like Sookie as a breeze is like a hurricane and Chicago is a far cry from backwoods Louisiana. And speaking of Merit. I really enjoyed her character. She's a hoot, the snark and humor and sarcasm where very enjoyable and I chuckled or sniggered a fair amount while reading this. And she's confident and not afraid to kick serious butt. But Merit is also very real. She has her doubts and insecurities and worries same as the rest of us and that was nice to see. A heroine that isn't all full of herself. And the rest of the characters where great too. I especially like Ethan, more on him later though. I also appreciated the fact that you don't have to read book one in order to get what's going on here. It does get off to a rather slow start, but thankfully things do pick up quite a bit, I did feel though that the ending was a little anti-climatic, and I could have done with a little more action. But overall though the plot is very good and certainly keeps you guessing. And there is plenty of romance here for romance fans, certainly enough to satisfy me. I absolutely loved watching Ethan and Merit interact and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more of those two and their relationship in subsequent books. And they sizzle too, if the sexual tension between those two gets any hotter, whew! I can't wait to see what's going to happen between those two. It looks like Morgan is out of the picture, which is good as I'm not a huge fan of long drawn-out love-triangles. All in all, this a good story and I'll definitely be reading the rest of the books in this series. The cover is pretty good too except for two things. The katana is glaringly inaccurate. Firstly a katana is never held with one hand, it's held with two. And also it's too short, a katana is between 25' and 30' inches long and the one on the cover is maybe 18 inches. Also katana's are not made of brass or gold as the one on the cover looks to be, they are made of steel. And also it's pretty much a carbon copy of the cover of the first book. The covers for books three and four are way better. ...more

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Jun 20, 2011 Juliana Philippa rated it really liked it

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Overall, I enjoyed the book a lot - more than I thought I would. Merit annoys me, so I thought it might be hard to get into, but I ended up reading most of the book in one sitting. I gave both this one and the first, Some Girls Bite , 4 stars, but in many ways I liked this one better (not enough for 4.5 stars though).

While Book 1 has the advantage of being our introduction to the people and world that Neill has created, I appreciated both Merit and Ethan much more in this one and thought the ...more

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