821 and counting …

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Finished Bled Dry by Erin McCarthy.

This is another book I picked up at RWA in Dallas. I got to meet Erin at the Berkley signing and thank her in person for giving me a cover blurb for Karma Girl. And I got a signed book. Life is good. 😀

Anyway, this book is about Brittany Baldizzi, a suburban dentist, who gets knocked up after a one-night stand with vampire and gentic researcher Corbin Altelier. After Brittany breaks the news to Corbin, the two of them deal with their impending parenthood, deepening relationship, and a couple of bad guys who want to use their baby for research purposes.

It sounds dark and serious, but trust me, it’s pretty funny stuff, especially when Brittany and Corbin takes some parenting classes. I also enjoyed the Vegas setting, which was used well without taking over the story, as it sometimes does on CSI.

One thing that was really interesting was that McCarthy didn’t dwell on the whole blood issue, which turns me off a lot of vampire books. In other words, the characters didn’t think about drinking each other’s blood the whole time. They had other problems and concerns and worries. A refreshing change of pace.

This book is the third one in the Vegas Vampires series. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I’d started with the first book. There were a lot of terms I didn’t quite understand, as well as the relationships between some of the characters. And I really didn’t get the presidential election subplot. But that’s my fault for not reading the books in order.

So, thumbs up.

Up next: Probably Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh.

6 Responses to “821 and counting …”

  2. Jennifer Estep says:

    Well, this weekend was race weekend, so I couldn’t really go out of the house. I had to do something to pass the time, so I read … and finished writing my spy book. 😎

  3. Chasity Jenkins says:

    I have this one on my to buy list. I’ve just gotten around to buying it. I checked Mr. K’s last time I was over there, to see if they had any of these, but they didn’t. Do you ever go there? That place rocks my socks.

    Ah yeah, race weekend. I had to go to Weber City to see a client on Saturday morning and I just KNEW that traffic was going to be terrible. Thankfully I was wrong. I made the mistake of going through Bristol one weekend, not realizing it was race weekend. That was torture. It took almost 4 hours to get to Elizabethon. I don’t blame you for not going out!

  4. Jennifer Estep says:

    I looove Mr. K’s. I go every few months and stock up on books. 😉

    When the race comes to town, I usually just stay and home and hide until it’s over. 🙄

  5. Edie says:

    I judged contest entries this weekend, so you had more fun than I did. I’m wondering how a vampire has sperm. Super powers make more sense to me. If there can be three-eyed fish and five-legged calves, why not the power to start fires? :mrgreen:

  6. Jennifer Estep says:

    The sperm question was raised in the book and is sort of a running gag the first few chapters. Evidently, getting preggers by a vampire is rare but not impossible in McCarthy’s world.

    I like superpowers better too, for obvious reasons. 😉

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