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Review of Bitten & Smitten (Immortality Bites, Book 1)
- Sarah Dearly has had a bad date. What else would you call being buried alive before dessert? Not to mention that bite mark on her neck, and the creepy way her date keeps saying that he's sired her. Then those guys with the stakes show up and turn her date into so much dust! Sarah runs for her life, only to be rescued by a tall, dark, and handsome stranger. Sure, she interrupts him as he's about to throw himself off a bridge - but as far as rescuers go, Thierry de Bennicoeur will have to do. Only problem is their age difference. He's a six-hundred-year-old vamp with a death wish. She's a new kid on the block with a need for someone with experience to show her the ropes. And to keep her one step ahead from the vampire hunters that are in town to rid Toronto of the monsters'. Sarah doesn't know what to make of all this. Sure, she's got a healthy hankering for blood lately, but she doesn't feel like a monster. Just an unemployed girl looking for love. Even if the object of her affection#151;Thierry#151;can't go out in the sun for very long.
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- Posted on 2008-05-12
CUTE BOOK
I was "smitten" with this book, cute book, story kind of dragged, zero romance, just kissing,. I read the book in a day & 1/2. Probably could have taken 1 day to read it, but had to sleep.
This book would be recommend for someone who likes paranormal (vampires), but can do without the heavy romance. I did not read any foul language or graphic detail. book made me giggle a little due to the main character.
Score: 4
- Posted on 2008-03-08
Maybe The Woerst Vampire Book Ever
Ok I read a lot of paranormal romances, but this one is one of the worst books I've ever read. For one, there is every little romance in this book. Not even one sex scene. There is no chemistry between the main characters at all. For two, as a vampire book it leaves much to be desired. MaryJanice Davidson was quoted saying that Bitten And Smitted was "A charming, hilarious book! I'm insanely jealous I didn't write it." Not sure why she said that. The book wasn't charming or even a little bit hilarious.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2008-01-30
Best new paranormal series in a long time
Three words for the quickie review. "I. Love. It!"
I hate to say it, and all you Anita Blake and Southern Vampire and Carpathian addicts out there -- don't stake me. This (and its sequel) are my favorite paranormal romance books. (Oh, wait, oops, I probably just offended said Anita Blake audience by lumping the books under that heading. Oopsies -- but I'll go into that when I do my Hamilton reviews...)
Why? Because, and I'll just take Bitten and Smitten and not sequel Fanged and Fabulous in this review... it's *not* a true paranormal romance. It has this little thing called plot. And believability. And it's a damned good plot. With bite.
I'll stop punning one of these days.
One thing I won't ever forget from a writing panel at a sci-fi convention I went to a few years back was a comment an author made about catching a reader right off the bat, and not to take half an hour of reading time to introduce every character before any action strikes.
Damn. Does Ms. Rowen take that advice, or what? I love it!
Sarah Dearly is a secretary. Er, executive assistant. Then she goes on a bad blind date and ends up in a cemetery. Hmm. Then, quickfire, the local hunter crowd wants to stake her and a hunky vampire rescues her.
Ohhh yeah, this book's gonna be good. And it also should be in Toronto's travel packet. I want to go see Toronto now. Heh.
Yes, I'm biased. Yes, I love Thierry, Sarah's vamp "flame". Yes, I want him... to get with Sarah. Yes, that really was what I originally planned to type. Really it was!
Thierry has all the makings to be a "generic" dark and brooding master-vampire-Angel character. But he's more... human than that. He's got dark and brooding and sexy down, but there's something different. There's an almost, dare I say it... boyish charm to him? And he's really a pain in the ass who does his share of stupid, masculine things. But I love him anyway.
The thing that I kept getting through the book is how damned believable it is! No, we're not dealing with the oh-so-soulless Buffy vampires, or the complex and twisted universes where the world has to be "altered" to let vampires have their play-room. These are real people that are vampires who can sun on a Mexico beach and show up in photographs. All the side characters, all the main characters. Michelle Rowen "gets" it.
Characters that take lots of interesting twists and turns. Though I must wonder -- will Sarah go through a few psychological issues where all her friends end up fangy? Clearly it's not the end of the world, but no more pasta? Ow. That's gotta bite.
(I promise to stop punning. Soon.)
Also, for the record, I adore Quinn. I am of Sarah's mold -- made for Thierry, but Quinn is... hot in an irresistably sexy-hunter-gone-sympathetic-character way. I'm just glad drooling is allowed for both, and unlike her, I don't really have to decide. Thank God.
Oh, yeah, before I forget, I like the "shard" concept. Like, love it. Heh. And yes, for those that must have their were-thing fix -- we have a werewolf. We do have a werewolf. absolutely adore that name, too. Barkley. And we get Buffyverse mentions! In a word, w00t!
Okay, I'll stop, and try not to gush and give away the entire book, but... twists and turns and more twists in an exciting plot that doesn't devolve at all as the novel goes on. Like the eternally-cliche energizer bunny, it keeps going and going and going... and the only disappointing part when it ends only in that it has ended! (Which is why there's "Fanged and Fabulous". Go buy it so you can jump from one book to the next with no pain.)
The ending, too? Love the ending. And the book hits a good, "you-start-to-panic" climax, too.
In short, I love it! The book rocks. Go buy it. To the author: Fangs for this book!
Score: 5
- Posted on 2008-01-29
Cute But its a MJ Davidson book without the paranormal or sex
Call me harsh or maybe critical but I am a diehard paranormal romance reader who is experimenting with new Authors. When I read the review of MJ Davidson herself who stated that "she was insanely jealous she hadn't written this book herself" I thought hhmmm this must be a good one. Boy was I disappointed where is the romance? Where is the paranormal? The only things to make these characters vampires is the fact they drink blood and some are a few hundred years old and of course they are hunted by slayers. Other than that they have no vampire powers such as strength, speed, I mean whoever heard of a vampire having to kill an enemy using a gun??? And the only thing needed for them to go out during the day into sunlight is a pair of sunglasses?
I didn't feel any chemistry of romance at all other than Sarah and Quin where it wasn't suppose to be. And I am sorry I got kinda tired of Sarah the alleged heroine handing herself up to the hunters practically everyday, When was she suppose to smarten up.
I thought this book was cute, sorta funny, if your not really into vampires than you will probably enjoy this book. But if your into the traditional vampires who have actual vampire powers you may be disappointed with this book like I was.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2007-12-11
seriously? Sarah Dearly is an annoying vampire.
I'm surprised i actually read the whole thing, actually. I love paranormal romances, and have read a lot of them, especially the vampire ones. Sarah is exactly the kind of person that annoys me in actual life - so why the he-l would i want to read a book about her? She's stuck on herself, repeatedly makes stupid mistakes, and actually wears a shirt that says "Diva" on the front. Does any adult actually wear those?? Seriously? Sarah is the least vampire-like vampire i've ever read about. I'm sure that was the point, sort of, but this author couldn't pull it off. Now, MaryJanice Davidson does a great job with a character slightly similiar to Sarah in Undead and Unwed (Queen Betsy, Book 1), but Michelle Rowen's character Sarah is just annoying. I did like the vampire "master", Thierry de Bennicoeur, or as i thought of him "the suicidal vamp". He was funny. But honestly, i think sarah acts like a lovesick teenager around him. and he actually likes he her? how a 600+ year old vampire could seriously like someone as average and annoyingly girly as Sarah Dearly is beyond me. No, i'm not against all girly girls, not at all. Only the prissy ones, which sarah dearly, in my opinion, is.
And also, the book begins at the end of her blind date with a vampire who's just bitten her and wants to be with her for eternity. A bit of an awkward start, if you ask me. Within the first 10 pages her nightmare date is killed by vampire hunters. The whole vampire hunters thing bored me to death. it's such a simple plot line, too. *sigh*, it's too bad, really.
Score: 2