PNR Review: Real Vampires Hate Skinny Jeans [Paperback]

I've finished "Real Vampires Hate Skinny Jeans" the 8th book in her Glory St. Clair series by Gerry Bartlett.
Product Description

Someone is eating for two ...

Full-figured vampire Glory St. Clair thinks things are finally going her way. She's no longer possessed by a demon, the legions of hell aren't on her tail, and her love life is heating up since she managed to reconnect with her maker - and longtime lover - Jeremy Blade.

When a pregnant demon shows up on her doorstep, Glory knows that everything is about to go to hell. Alesa is claiming that the baby she's carrying is Rafe's, conceived while she was inhabiting Glory's body. A clever trap? Or could it be true?

Booties and bibs are the last thing on Glory's mind when she discovers dark secrets from her own forgotten past. Who is she? What is she? And how will the men in her life deal with the fact that she may be more owerful than she knew? One thing is certain. Glory has way more to worry about than fitting into her favorite pair of jeans...

powerful than she knew? One thing is certain. Glory has way more to worry about than fitting into her favorite pair of jeans ...

About the Author

Gerry Bartlett figures that vampires are pretty much like everyone else except for the liquid diet. Eternity or Mexican Food? Tough call. Then there's the whole problem with sunlight. When would she treasure hunt for her own antique business on the historic Strand of Galveston? Gerry's a native Texan and lives halfway between Houston and Galveston. Gerry loves hearing from her readers on her website.


Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Berkley Trade; 1 edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425245624
ISBN-13: 978-0425245620


My Review:

Glory St. Clair was turned into a vampire in 1604 with an hour glass figure.  Now she is riddled with a bloated stomach with a full figure after taking a drug.  Ian MacDonald is the creator of the drug and informs he has found an anomaly in her blood.  Glory wasn't human when Jeremy Blade her long time love turned her into a vampire.

Then pregnant demon Alesa saunters comes back into Glory's life and annouces she will be living with Glory until after the baby is born.  Alesa says she was kicked out of hell because she got pregnant while inhabiting Glory's body and that the baby's father is Rafe, Glory's former bodyguard, one time lover and long time friend.

Glory has three men after her Jeremy Blade her long time vampire love,  Rafe her former body guard and long time friend and Israel Ray a rock star who she mentored.

I highly recommend this series if you like fun and sexy thrilling paranormals.  Loved that we saw more of Ray and he had some hot and sexy fun with Glory.  Man were those scenes sizzling hot!

4/5

Thanks Penguin Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

The Gathering (Darkness Rising, Book 1) [Hardcover]

I've finished "The Gathering" the 1st book in her Darkness Rising series by Kelley Armstrong.

Product Description

The setting for the Gathering is a small medical-research town called Salmon Creek on the island of Vancouver Island. Salmon Creek was built by St. Cloud Corporation, the owners of the town and surrounding park. It was built for their employees. Maya, the main character, is the adopted daughter of the park ranger. The events actually start a year before with death of Maya's friend, Serena. She, Maya, and Serena's boyfriend, Daniel, were swimming in a lake. Serena, captain of Salmon Creek High swim team, drowned in the lake, and Maya is guilt ridden for not being able to save her friend.

A year later, Maya is getting ready to celebrate her sweet 16. She wants to tattoo her birthmark -- a paw-print shape on her hip. She doesn't want it altered in any way, though; she just wants to make it more noticable. However, she doesn't get it because the tattoo artist's aunt insults her by calling her a witch in Navajo. Later, she invites Rafe, a new bad-boy at school, to her birthday party at Daniel's house. At the party, the teens have a competition on Maya's new rock wall: if she can beat all the guys, they have to add more footholds, but if she loses to even one guy, she has to kiss him.

After she defeats all the contestants, Rafe shows up. He challenges Maya individually, and beats her. He doesn't kiss her, though, promising to claim his prize without prying eyes. Maya and Rafe start going out. One day, when Maya was going over to his house for dinner with him and his childish older sister, Annie, she is attacked by someone looking for Rafe. She sees Annie transform from a cougar into herself.
Rafe tells her about skinwalkers and how their mothers were in an experiment to bring them back through their children, but Maya's biological mother seemly learned the truth about it and abandoned her when she was baby and Maya learns she may have a twin brother out in the world somewhere. Rafe explains more about the calling and how Annie fell a victim to it and describes the warning signs which Maya realized she being going though and is scared to do so after hearing what Annie went through. She dumps Rafe after feeling used and not feeling he's trustworthy anymore. The forest is set on fire by people who wanted break into ST.Clouds labs and the book then with the group escaping expect Annie who's out there somewhere.

Product Details
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins (April 12, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061797022
ISBN-13: 978-0061797026

My Review:

I highly recommend reading this series if you like a snarky heroine and well written characters with different personalities and a great storyline.

Maya is a great heroine and I loved the snarky comments that she says for example:

Maya: "Have you met the tattoo artist?  Is he hot?"
Mom: "He's a she."
Maya: "Is she hot?  Cause I'm still young, you know.  My sexual identity isn't fully formed."

She has balls and she tells you like it is and doesn't pussyfoot around and she really cares for her family and friends.  She's attracted to Rafe but she doesn't quite trust him and besides he has a reputation of being a ladies man.  He enjoys the chase but once he has them he loses interest.  I really enjoy reading how she loves animals and they seem to be attracted to her too (they don't want to hurt her but protect her).  She has a German Shepard Kenjii as a companion.

I felt really sorry for Daniel after reading about his childhood and that his dad blames him for his mom leaving when he was 13 yrs. old.  He used to beat Daniel up until he was bigger and stronger and could take care of himself.  I really like how he's very protective of Maya his best friend and even more since Serena's drowning last year.  He's very popular because he's a sensible and fair leader and people like to be around him.  He's starting to get feelings about things and it's not the good kind.  Maya is learning to trust his instincts.

Rafe is the American Teen Rebel because of the way he dresses and he acts so cool.  He pretends to smoke cigarettes and he's something of a ladies man.  I didn't really like learning he only dated Maya briefly to see if she's a Skinwalker like him.  But everyone can sense he really does like Maya including me.

4.5/5

Thanks Authors on the Web and HarperCollins for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!