Synopsis
Roundhouse Publishing editor Kate C. Leever's first letter to her newest legacy author was intended to impress upon him the growing demand for his "vampire romances." Though he'd expressed little to no desire for publicity, book tours or the like, it was clear that this was a writer waiting to be broken out. Correspondence with Mr. Lucern Argeneau tended to be oddly delayed, but this time his response was quick and succinct.
"NO."
But Kate was adamant: Luc was going to attend a romance convention to meet his fans. By hook or by crook, despite his reclusive nature, odd sleep schedule and avoidance of the sun, the surly yet handsome Luc was going to be recognized as the real charmer a nationally bestselling author should be. But soon Kate would learn that his novels were more biographies than bodice rippers, and it'd be her neck on the line.
A sweeter surrender, or more heartwarming love story - his own - Luc has yet to write.
Release date: February 25, 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Print pages: 384
Reader says this book is...: entertaining story (1) great world-building (1) imaginative (1) sex scenes (1) witty (1)
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On the one side, you have a depressed writer with his quirky family whose favorite word is “no.” He also happens to be a vampire. On the other, there’s his spunky new editor who is determined to get him to do some/any form of publicity for his latest bestseller, a vampire romance nov...
On the one side, you have a depressed writer with his quirky family whose favorite word is “no.” He also happens to be a vampire. On the other, there’s his spunky new editor who is determined to get him to do some/any form of publicity for his latest bestseller, a vampire romance novel. When the only response she can get from him is “no,” she decides to drop in on him in person. Let the hijinks ensue.
Lucern is depressed when we first meet him. He rarely leaves the house, doesn’t turn the lights on, and has no food in the cupboards. Well, he does have some blood in the fridge. Sometimes, you need that one person to give you a kick in the pants back to living. It’s nice to watch him come back to life as the book progresses.
Kate knows what her boss and the fans want and how it will help Lucern in his writing career. She is willing to cross borders, come up with excuses, and fall in with his mother’s plans to help him. Kate keeps a level head on her shoulders even when faced with crazy situations like learning her writer is a vampire. The explanation behind how vampires came into being threw me for a loop, but it is a different reason from most vampire novels.
I like the fact that the humor revolves around the circumstances that the characters are in or misunderstandings, rather than the characters acting stupidly. There are ridiculously over the top antics (the raunchy search for condoms comes to mind), but for the most part, it is light-hearted fun. Scenes like a group of vampires being accused of smoking pot out of the back of a van when they’re drinking blood to Lucern realizing he got conned by his mother into attending a convention for romance authors and readers kept me giggling through the book.
This book is an excellent introduction to the Argeneau family. From the matriarch, Marguerite, who is willing to help Kate through a decision she had to make centuries earlier, to crazy siblings like Etienne, who likes to lay in a coffin to help himself think, the Argeneau family is full of delightful characters. I will be picking up more books from this series to see how the rest of the family finds love.
Note: I try to read books in the order they were published. Even though this is listed as book #3, it was the first Argeneau novel published.
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