Diana Laurence wrote a fabulous guide to loving and dating vampires. The subtext on the introduction hooked me. "You tell me you want to date a vampire. My reply: Well, naturally!" Written with humor and sharp wit, I laughed out loud reading this entirely too many times. Ripe with rules, case studies, and stories of her own personal pitfalls of dating vampires and mortals (you can and are encouraged to do both at the same time), I think this would be the perfect complement to any vampire aficionado's bookshelf. And if you're stubborn like me, read this first and prepare to max out credit cards purchasing Twilight and Sookie :) The presentation of the book is also great, with some some red contrasting nicely with the black and white standard pages.
Let me admit that, Buffy notwithstanding, I've never touched a vampire novel. I've never seen the Twilight movies, or watched true Blood. I don't know why I've shyed away from them. But Holly is enamored and has been nagging me to read them for months because she adores them so. So when this was offered from Shelf Awareness, it looked like a humorous book that could potentially lead me to Holly (and the rest of America's) side of things, and I told her if I loved it that I'd look into Sookie or Twilight. Turns out? Holly wasn't wrong, and True Blood has been playing on my OnDemand for five hours now. Now back to the book. Adored it. Cover to cover, devoured in three hours. Pardon the pun. Grab this book, it's adorable! Big thanks to Andy @ Sellers and to the author for copy of this! Check out more info on the book here. http://howtocatchandkeepavampire.com/ There's a sneak peek of the first 6 pages on the site
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Sounds funny. I just got a copy of "The Vampire is Just Not That Into You" which seems like it's kind of the same idea, and it's pretty funny. Great review!
That sounds great! I'm going to look for it next time I'm at the store :)
Hi, it's the author here! I found your review in my daily googling and let me just say, thank you so much!!! I love the thought of you cracking up for three hours, that just made my day. Meanwhile, Conner, Mordred, Colin and the gang are just tickled that their friend's book has converted a new mortal to vampirophilia. They'll be drinking a toast to you tonight (breaking out the AB negative for the occasion!).
I want to add that I think the cover art is fantastic!
Aw, thanks Holly! I was thrilled with it as well. I'll pass on the compliment to the publisher!
Thank you so much Ms. Laurence, i already showed the book to four people who have added it to their wish lists! Because of your book, and lovely men of the night (and day thanks to modern technology), I am now the proud owner of more books and DVDs that have no room on my shelves :) The presentation of the book was amazing!
Ashley, you are so nice to spread the word, thank you! Yes, they are irresistible creatures all right. I hope you love True Blood and the Sookie books as much as I do...I'm obsessed. I wrote the book before any exposure to them, but Charlaine Harris and Alan Ball and I seem to have very similar sentiments about vampires! Oh, and Conner says to keep up the word of mouth; he still abides by the old-fashioned kind of promotion, one book lover to another! :-)
I just got this in the mail Friday to review. I can not wait to read it.
Great review!
Wow! It's funny how some of the things are so similar given you wrote this before them! The synth blood, the cameras. I think they should adopt your antidote to sunlight as more Bill doesn't seem like it could be a bad thing. ;)
Thanks Trisha, I think you'll love it!
Hope you enjoy it, Trisha! And Ashley, I SO agree. Everytime the vampires on True Blood get into trouble with the sun, I'm thinking "Liquid Shade, people!" Otherwise though it's uncanny how much we are on the same wavelength.
Ashley, I just noticed your review posted on Amazon. I appreciate it so much!
Any time! I hope I can look forward to more vampire tips from you!
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