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Undead and Uneasy (Undead/Queen Betsy) |
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Jove
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780515145045
ISBN: 0515145041
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-03-25
Publisher: Jove
Studio: Jove
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The New York Times bestselling series.
With her wedding fast approaching, cold feet don't come as a surprise to Betsy Taylor-especially with an undead groom. But when her fiancŽ and most of her loved ones go missing, it's up to Betsy to find them-and whoever is behind the disappearances.
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Summary: Vampire humor at it's best!
Comment: If you haven't read any other books in this series, you should really start at the beginning. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the Undead series to date. Betsey is a well developed character who is armed not only with very sharp teeth, but also with wit and sarcastic humor. If you enjoy vampire novels, but want something a little different, then this series is a must read!
---- Jessica
Jessica Coulter Smith
Author, Paranormal Romance
"Whispering Lake" released Nov. 2008
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Summary: Betsy grows up...just a little
Comment: I enjoyed this book because Betsy matures as a Vampire Queen. She is no longer powerless in a world where Power is a necessity. But even though she comes into her maturity through her loneliness, it is her friends that give her strength. Very fun, yet really sensitive.
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Summary: Good Read
Comment: This was a great light read. I really enjoyed it and it made the day go by quickly and it put me in a good mood.
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Summary: All plot but no action!
Comment: Well MJD did say that she would be tying up the plot of the first 6 in her series with this 6th book, so I guess I shouldn't complain in that respect, because it delivered. However, I thought that the supposed series-long plot she was tying up was really only introduced in this book, and it was a plot that frankly seemed unlikely (even for a vampire romance novel!!) and lacked in consistency with the pacing.
What makes the series good is the relationships; MJD writes characters very well, and the chemistry she creates between them is so sizzling that it can leap off the page. Sad to say, though, that this element was COMPLETELY MISSING from this book. If you've read her other books, you'll know that plots are secondary to the characters, so just why she thought it was a good idea to isolate our herione Betsy throughout the majority of the book is beyond me. There was no sex, not even sexual tension that we get to see, because Sinclair is absent most of the time, and it's Betsy and Sinclair that make the books worth reading.
As far as her attempt at writing a plot-driven novel went, it's not bad in the sense that there are explanations of a couple of things that are mentioned in earlier books and Betsy actually solves a mystery without help from the smarter characters, but it's not up there with books that have plot-driven authors.
If, like me, you want to read it because it's part of a series, then go for it, you might as well, but it wasn't as satisfying as expected.
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Summary: Wish Sinclair was here
Comment: My only complaint is that Sinclair didn't play a large role in this particular book. Which is unfortunate because Betsy as a character is a little bit too self-involved...to the point that Sinclair is needed because he balances her out and makes her self involvement appear cute. When he's not there to balance her out it's more irritating. This isn't a jibe at MJD but one particular trait of the Betsy character. I think MJD writes very entertaining books and this was no exception, I just find Betsy a hard pill to swallow without being able to see her through Sinclair's eyes. (Although the books are told in 1st person, when he's around you definitely view Betsy through his eyes and he adores her.)
Betsy and Sinclair also play very well off each other. He brings out her softer edges and you see that a lot of her self involvement is bluster to hide a kinder and slightly less self absorbed heart underneath (She's kind of like a Cordelia from Buffy.) She seems like all she cares about is her manicure, but it's not completely true. She cares about her friends) What Sinclair does, IMO is bring that Betsy to the surface, but when he's not central to the plot it gets easy to forget that.
One thing that was very cool about this particular book was that it joined together the Betsy series with the werewolves. MJD wrote a novella that I LOVED that appeared in one volume of the "Secrets" anthology about a werewolf that gets trapped in an elevator with a woman who's ovulating...mayhem ensues. I loved it. And it was really cool to get a glimpse of that couple a few years down the road.
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