Showing posts with label Las Vegas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Las Vegas. Show all posts

Thursday, October 10, 2024

BBNYA2024 Semi-Finalist Spotlight ~ All In by Russell Isler

 What dies in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Vampire playboy Eddy Fry has spent years living it up, so to speak, in Las Vegas. In all those decades, not once has he met another of his kind. Until tonight. Eddy learns that, not only are there other vampires out there, the one after him is older and much more powerful than he is. As if that wasn't bad enough, she’s got a small army of supernatural creatures at her beck and call. In a flash, she’s muscled him out of the casino he calls home and left him with an offer he can’t refuse. Out-gunned and out of his depth, Eddy will need to find his own allies, allies who know their way around this whacked-out supernatural world he’s been ignoring for so long. Otherwise, he might just see his first sunrise in years…

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Spike: The Complete Series

*Book source ~ Library
Author ~ Brian Lynch
Illustrator ~ Franco Urru
Nicola Zanni
Stephen Mooney
Publisher ~ IDW Publishing
Published ~ 31 July 2012
Genre ~ Graphic Novel | Paranormal
Pages ~ 200

Friday, December 20, 2013

12 Days of a Kensington Christmas ~ Must Love Vampires

Author ~ Heidi Betts
Publisher ~ Brava/Kensington
Published ~ 4 September 2012
Genre ~ Paranormal/Romance

*Book source ~ Many thanks to Kensington for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

My Rating ~ 2 bites and a nibble out of 5

This book contains two short stories, Vampnapped is about Charlotte ‘Chuck’ Lamoureaux and Sebastian Raines and Married…with Fangs is about Chuck’s twin sister Chloe and Sebastian’s brother Aidan.

Chuck is a reporter for a questionable tabloid, the Sin City Tattler that has stories about Big Foot, aliens and the like. She’s been following Sebastian around because she thinks he’s a vampire and she wants to prove it. After convincing her sister, a showgirl at Sebastian’s casino, to switch places for the night so she can sneak into his penthouse apartment, her snooping does not go quite as planned.

Chloe is more than happy to take the night off so she can spend it with Aidan. They’ve been dating for a month and now Aidan has asked her to marry him. They’re going to use her night off to get married Vegas-style. However, they’ve both been keeping some secrets that could end the marriage before it even gets a running start.

Neither of these stories really did it for me. While there were moments of entertainment, neither story had any substance. Chuck’s story was mildly entertaining if you can get past her insistence on being called Chuck (ugh!) and the fact she is a major airhead. Chloe is a gold digger who would rather be out partying and trolling for a rich baby daddy than spend time with her son. Aidan comes across as shallow and interested in only burning up the sheets. Sebastian was the most interesting character. If you like fluff with vampires then this might entertain you, but I found it lacking.