Genre: Adult Supernatural/Paranormal Romance
Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: Penguin (Berkley Sensation)
Spoilers?: Somewhat minor/Yes.
Goodreads Synopsis:
MaryJanice Davidson
gives vampire queen Betsy Taylor a Christmas to remember in this fourth
funny outing in her bestselling Undead series. This time, Betsy's
holiday cup runneth over. For starters, Betsy's mother has finally
erected Betsy's tombstone in the local cemetery. A psycho nut job serial
killer is targeting tall, thin blondes in the Twin Cities: women who
look like Betsy. Her vampire mate, Eric Sinclair, is balking at wedding
planning and at the modern notion of communication, while her hateful
stepmother has just had a baby. Of course, it's time for the
irrepressible Betsy to launch an advice column for vampires trying to
cope and to team up with a freshly killed ghost to track down her
murderer. But why does her sister, Laura, keep taking out that sword? As
usual, Betsy floats triumphantly in a sea of chaos, helped and hindered
by the usual madcap cast of vampires and humans. (Plus more on Goodreads.)
Available on Amazon.
Review:
I enjoy these
books. I like them enough, they aren’t my favorite, but they are easy and fun to
read. Generally when I finish one book, I want to immediately read the next
one, which is nice, but I also don’t really have a lot to say about each book.
In this book, Betsy
is having some troubles with Sinclair, pertaining to him finding out that she
can read his mind during sex but he can’t read hers but the book says he should
be able to. Betsy’s step-mother also gave birth so she now has a little
brother, who seems to particularly like Betsy, which Betsy enjoys because (1)
her step-mother doesn’t like it, (2) she gets to spend more time with him, and
(3) she likes kids and this way gets to be around him, since she is now unable
to have her own. There’s also a serial killer around the neighborhood killing
women who look like Betsy, and Betsy ends up finding the guy when one of his
now-dead victims comes to her for help.
I liked the
Sinclair plot line, as I always do, because I love romance and smut is always
fun. There wasn’t really that much time given to Betsy spending time with her
half-brother, but I did like what I saw. And the last, serial killer plot line
got barely any time, and seemed mostly like a ploy to introduce a new
character, Cathie, who is a ghost and seems to be sticking around because Betsy’s
life is much more interesting than hers was. Also, to bring Nick, the cop that
liked Betsy, into Jes’ life.
Oh, also, there was
some drama with Laura, Betsy’s sister who’s a spawn from the devil. I didn’t
mind Laura before, but now I don’t like her so much. She went a little crazy at
one point and attacked George the Fiend, the vampire that the old master made
and starved, and so turned into a twisted creature but, with Betsy’s blood, is
starting to turn normal again. I like George, and am looking forward to him
turning more normal and talking more, and I just kind of like him for some
reason, and so I do not forgive Laura for attacking him. I don’t even care as
much that she attacked Betsy, but that does make it worse. I think her
punishment was good, but I’m still not happy with her, and I do believe that
she’s only going to turn more evil later in the series.
There was also a
small plot line with Jon, a character from an earlier book who liked Betsy, who
is staying with them and taking a college class and writing a story about
Betsy, which unless something big happens with it later, I don’t really care
about. Although, one thing bothered me with that: he’s taking a biography-type
class, and brought it up to the teacher to write a biography-type story about a
fictional character that he’s making up, to cover for Betsy. My problem with
this is that, it isn’t a biography if it’s a fictional character. That’s a
novel, a fictional book. Not non-fiction. If you wanted to pass something real
off as fiction, then take a fiction writing class. That just annoyed me for
some reason.
That’s pretty much
all I have to say. I liked the book, and am looking forward to the next one.
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