6/27/2023 0 Comments Undead and unemployed![]() ![]() I also found the liberal use of the f-word rather jarring. If I have a niggle, it is that Betsy tends to go on and on about how much she dislikes Eric – while the reader knows that in stories of this type that means that it is a sure thing the pair of them will finally get together. Which I find endearing – and I am conscious that writing a stupid heroine isn’t as easy as it might seem, having tried it and thrown the result across the room in disgust… Written in first person POV, the story might be fairly light-hearted – but it is well crafted and the character is convincingly dim. Only the last time she ran into Sinclair she accidentally fulfilled an ancient prophesy – and ended up married to him… Luckily, Betsy lands her dream job selling designer shoes at Macy’s Department Store.īut then there’s a string of vampire murders in town and Betsy has to enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Eric Sinclair. Only being royally undead doesn’t mean there aren’t still credit card bills to be paid. Nothing can make Betsy Taylor give up her shoe fetish – not even dying and rising as the new Queen of the Vampires. For starters, the protagonist is a ditzy blonde with a thing for shoes. In a sub-genre that generally doesn’t take itself too seriously, this book is more firmly tongue in cheek than most – think Clueless rather than Buffy. ![]() This is one of the fluffier offerings of chic-spec I’ve read. ![]()
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