I’ve decided it’s a blogging night. The weather here is over a hundred degrees and right about now I’m wishing I had air conditioning or a Dilly bar from Dairy Queen to help cool me down. My concentration has been shot by the heat, seeing a snake and a mouse. I’m not scared of mice, but seeing rodents I would have to say not on my top ten fav list. Snakes terrify me and I think, “What the hell am I back in Texas?” when I see one. Snakes were everywhere in Texas and they were vicious. I had a snake strike at me on a bike path. Scared the shit out of me!
Why was I living in Texas? I asked myself that the four years I was there. It was hot, oh wait, that’s not the best description to explain the heat, it was fucking hot in Texas. And I happen to live in a suburb where the people were Republicans. If you are Republican, I don’t want hate mail telling me how Republicans are the shit. I voted for Obama so you know where I stand politically. My neighbors were anti-gay. I have gay friends and family members. Once I realized where I was living I told my husband we have to get the hell out of here. I can’t be around anti-gay people. Gays should be able to get married just like the rest of the straight crowd. I voted for gay marriage despite my Texas neighbors attempt to persuade me to vote against it. Needless to say, the bill did not pass to allow gay Texans to marry.
I did not intend this blog to be about snakes and Texas, but now you know my thoughts about both.
The Immortality Bites Series, well, I just loved these books. I discovered Michelle Rowen during a search on how to write a query letter to agents. Looking for samples so I understood how to write a query letter, I came across Michelle's letter. After reading the description of Dearly Departed (the original title of Bitten & Smitten), I thought this sounds really interesting and I have to read it.
Bitten & Smitten did not disappoint. I read all the books in the series twice and if Sarah Dearly existed I would be friends with her, as long as, she didn’t try to bite me. Yes, Sarah was turned into a vampire, met a hot 600 plus year old vampire, Thierry and had several mishaps with hunters. Oh and she had a vampire curse put on her by some bitchy classmate that had a chip on her shoulder the size of Africa or maybe Russia. Sarah wasn’t the nice vamp when the curse possessed her. She was biting her friends and Thierry, but Thierry enjoyed it and it brought out his dark-side.
If you haven’t recognized my smart-ass mouth and dark humor, well I’m possessed with both, so Sarah and Michelle are my kind of peeps. This was my first exposure to Chick-Lit. I had no idea what I was about to read and it had me laughing out loud. My husband would ask me what I was laughing about. I told him he has to read the Immortality Bites series. He liked the Bridget Jones books and he loves Anne Rice books, so I think he’ll like Bitten & Smitten, Fanged & Fabulous, Stakes & Stilettos, and Tall, Dark & Fangsome.
There is another book in the series Lady & the Vamp, which I haven’t read yet, but it’s sitting here staring at me. Beckoning me to open it, read it and laugh. I haven’t read it yet, because it’s not about Sarah and Thierry. The book revolves around Quinn, the hunter turned vampire, who tried to kill Sarah, he’s turned into a vampire, loathes being a blood-sucking creature, thinks he loves Sarah and ends up falling in love with someone else. Did you follow that?
Michelle Rowen is hilarious. Her writing is sarcastic and there were things in the books that I found extremely funny. Do vampires really need to brush their fangs? Vampires get hangovers, well, with moonshine. Vampires tan in tanning beds. B-positive not just tasty blood for Sarah. All the death situations that Sarah gets herself into amused me and I wondered can one person be that accident prone? When Thierry tries to loosen up and be funny, he’s really not funny, but I laughed. Despite that Sarah is a vamp, she’s still the same girl she was before being turned into a creature of the night. She still loves to shop, wear t-shirts with Rhinestones on them and cries when she loses her reflection. The rest of the characters Amy, Quinn, Barry, Veronique (who is Thierry’s wife, yeah, complication, you’ll have to read the books to see how that turns out, if Thierry stays with his vamp wife or with Sarah) and George are just as entertaining as Sarah.
One of my favorite lines in the books is when Sarah cries about killing Spiderman. If you’re wondering what that is all about, check-out the Immortality Bites series.
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