I finished All I Want for Christmas Is a Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 5) by Kerrelyn Sparks on Sunday morning and wanted to get a review written up for you guys. If you haven't read any of Sparks's novels then go ahead and pick one up. This series is really very cute and not as dark as some Vampire series. I like a book with a lot of humor and this one definitely packs humor.
It starts out with Toni Davis meeting Scottish Vampire Ian MacPhie. Toni is a day guard for the Vampires. Meaning, that during the day when they are asleep she guards their passed out bodies from other humans who would do them harm. Ian, though, has a past, until a month ago he looked like a 15 year old boy, but due to some kind of potion he was able to age himself to look 27. Ian is on the hunt for the perfect Vampire woman when he meets Toni and they have an instant attraction to one another. Toni was attacked by "malcontents" (evil vampires) as was her room mate, however, Toni's room mate is now being held in an insane asylum.
Like I said the book has a lot of humor with Toni trying to prove the existence of Vampires to free her friend from the Asylum, (the Black Pages! Got to read them, it's very funny!) and then Ian's search for a woman goes global, enter every single woman trying to chase him down as he hot apparently.
The only problem I had with the book came when they rescued Toni's room mate. I didn't like her. In fact I found it hard to believe that the main character (Toni) would even be friends with someone as whiny and problematic as she was, she even made me regret the few chapters I read with her present. I saw her as more of a problem then a help to the story. I really liked the other Asylum rescue. I thought he was hysterical, it was a guy who was in the Asylum due to depression. Now if they could have given the room mate that guy's personality it would have been a hell of a lot better.
One other small problem I had is they mentioned Christmas like twice, so the story had very little to do with the title of the book, it was just a mismatch, the title had no relevance to the story. This is book 5 in the series and the series is as follows:
Love at Stake Series
Book One: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Book Two: Vamps and the City
Book Two and a half: Novella "A Very Vampy Christmas" from Sugarplums and Scandal
Book Three: Be Still My Vampire Heart
Book Four: The Undead Next Door
Book Five: All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
Book Six: Secret Life of a Vampire
Book Seven: Forbidden Nights with a Vampire
I've read a few of the series, one day I will sit down and read them all in a row (once I find them!) But I did read the first novel and it was a very good read!
I have started a new book by Lynsay Sands called Taming the Highland Bride which so far in looks like a story written from Taming of the Shrew. Anyway I will let you know how this goes.
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