Undead and Unwelcome: Review

Undead and Unwelcome

by Mary Janice Davidson

Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand. Such as taking the body of her werewolf friend Antonia—who died in her service—to Cape Cod, where she's not sure if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome her with fangs or friendship. Meanwhile, her posse back in St. Paul is sending frantic e-mails alerting Betsy to her half-sister's increasingly erratic behavior. Looks like the devil's daughter is coming into her own—and raising hell.

Tsk Tsk Tsk!

I love this series, and waited on pins nad needles for me turn at the library to get my hands on a copy of this book. It fell short! Just seemed rushed and not thought out.

Queen Betsy, I expect so much more out of you...

I am giving this book 2 stars!

Undead and Unwelcome fall into these reading challenges...

*The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge
* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge
* Paranormal 999 Challenge Book Challenge
* Vampire 2009 Reading Challenge

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Undead and Unworthy: Review

Undead and Unworthy by Mary Janice Davidson

" Betsy Taylor thought entering the world of the unded was a big adjustment. Being a new bride isn't much easier. The blush has only been on for two months, and Betsy has a lot to do: set up the new house, finish writing thank-you notes, and raise BabyJon, her half brother and legal ward. Just another happy American family adjusting to marital bliss.

" Betsy's husband, Sinclair, has been perusing the Book of the Dead, and Betsy visited by a ghost who's even more insufferable, stubborn, and annoying in death than she was in life. She not only blames Betsy for her condition but insists she fix it. It's all just a prelude to the fun and games awaiting Betsy and Sinclair when a pack of formerly feral vampires, hungry for blood and power, pays a visit to the happy couple.

WELCOME TO MARRIED LIFE, BETSY!

Okay, so I'll admit I was with the others ( you can find them anywhere) that was on the fence about the new art work on the cover of this book. It just doesn't match with the imagine I had of Queen Betsy. Mary Janice Davidson must have forseen her fans questioning the new cover work because she even writes about it at the start of the book. She says it has to do with the new direction she is taking the series. " Just as the first six books in tghe series were thier own story arc, so the next three books will be an arc.... think of this book as the first of a trilogy within a series".

Okay on to my review of this book, it was just alright! I had higher hopes for it. It still had the humor that the other books had, but it was just missing something. The others were faster reads, and I am shocked at the ending of this book and I of course can't go into more details because this blog will never ever spoil a book for the readers.

With all of that said, yes I will still read the other two that are coming out, because I would love to see this series through to the end.

I give this book 3 stars!

This book falls into these reading challenges:
*The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge
* Paranormal 999 Challenge Book Challenge
* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Undead and Uneasy: Review

Undead and Uneasy by Mary Janice Davidson is the 6th book in the series about Betsy, Queen of the Vampires.

" You are cordially invited to the wedding of Elizabeth Anne Taylor and Sinclair

607 Summit Avenue

Midnight

July 4,2007

RSVP by June 25, and don't be one of those jerks who doesn't RSVP and then shows up with three people. Seriously.

" In the days leading up to The Big Day, Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor seems to have a full house- and the wedding guests have yet to arrive. Along with her human buddies, there's a ghost, a werewolf, and a Fiend crashing at her place. And though her finance, Vampire King Eric Sinclair, convenient disappears when the conversation turns to seating charts and flower arrangements, he does manage to make his oh-so-sexy presence known at other moments.

" Betsy knows the next few weeks won't be smooth sailing- but she never expects just what's in store for her. Cold feet are no surprise, especially with an undead groom. But when Sinclair truly goes missing-and- not just to avoid wedding preparations- along with most of her friends and loved ones. Betsy is frantic. Alone and afraid for the fate of everyone she loves, Betsy can't trust anyone as she tries to find them and whoever is behind all the disappearance."


"And what happens next will shake the foundation of the vampire world forever in the best selling series that "breath[es] new life into conventional vampire lore".

In this book, Queen B has her skills as the Vampire Queen to the test, does she have what it takes...

Oh yes she does!! I was reading this book in the courtyard of my sons school waiting for him to get out of class, and I actually laughed out loud that another mom came up to me to see what I was reading! I love when a book actually gets you to laugh out loud, or cry... any kind of physical emotion... the best!

What will one girl do for loved ones.... pick up this book and find out! I give this book 4 1/2 stars... oohhhh that might be the highest rank I have given so far.

This book falls into these reading challenges:
*The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge
* Paranormal 999 Challenge Book Challenge
* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge

Until next time...

Happy Reading!

Undead and Unpopular: Review

" I tapped my pencil on the pad, trying to come up with a plan to tell my fiance, Eric Sinclair, that I had decided to completely give up the blood-drinking thing. I figured being the vampire queen had a few advantages- as it was, every vampire I'd ever known had to drink every day, even Eric. But I could go up to a week without so much as a drop of O-neg. So, in honor of my birthday, and being in this job for a year, I figured I'd give it up completely. I would be in a blood-free zone!"


" Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor already has plenty on her plate. For one thing, next week is her birthday- the big 3-1 in human years, and one in undead years. ( Yes, she bit the dust on her birthday last year). On top of that, she still has wedding plans to finalize- and it's not helping that the prospective groom is avoiding anything to do with it. And them there's her decision to stop drinking blood- something she has yet to share with Eric Sinclair, her fiance- who also happens to be the vampire king....
" So the last thing she wants to deal with is uninvited guests, even if they happen to be the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects the week before her birthday. Some of them don't want Betsy as their queen and will do anything to get rid of her. As if turning thirty last year ( not to mention dying) hadn't been traumatic enough. And trying to give up blood is making her really cranky... But who has time to sulk?"

Mary Janice Davidson is back in full swing in this book! I knew she could do it! This book was back to it's quicky self. Queen Betsy never has a good week, in fact with each passing week she has, she is certain it is the worst week of her undead life! I found myself feeling a lot of different emotions while reading this book, sad, amused and always entertained! I am giving this book 4 stars on my rating system, in case you haven't noticed, I don't give 5 stars very easily!

This book falls into these reading challenges:

*The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge

* Paranormal 999 Challenge Book Challenge

* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge

Go check them out, see how my progress is on each challenge, and maybe sign up for yourself!

Until next time....

Happy Reading!

Undead and Unreturnable

My first book that I read in the New Year is Undead and Unreturnable by Mary Janice Davidson. I realize this series is the only books I have reviewd lately and although I still have two more books in the series to read, I am going to pick up another book to read, just to spice things up. Stay tuned to see what book it will be.

Anyways back to Undead and Unreturnable.....

" This is how my tombstone read:

Elizabeth Anne Taylor

April 25, 1974- April 25, 2004

Our sweetheart, only resting

" Only, I was resting under it. I had, of course, died in the spring. Rose in the early dawn hours the day of my funeral and gone undead walkabout. Since my body was MIA, the funeral was canceled. But my mother, who had been in a huge fight with my dad and stepmom about what to spend on my marble tombstone, had rushed to order the thing. By the time it was finished, no funeral, no service, no burial. So anyway, my tombstone had been in storage for the last six months.

" After a while, the funeral home had politely contacted my mother and asked what she'd like to do with it. Since Mom had the plot and stone paid for, she had them stick it in the dirt two days ago and them mentioned it at lunch yesterday.

"Jessica and Laura had been morbidly curious to see it, and I'd tagged along. What the hell, it made for a break from wedding arrangements and Christmas cards....

So begins the newest hilarious adventure in the life of Betsy Taylor, reluctant Queen of the Vampires. It's Christmastime in the kingdom of the undead ( otherwise known as Minneaplois), which is as complicated as it sounds. Betsy isn't going to let a little thing like death and blood-drinking stop her from enjoying the holidays and planning her upcoming wedding to drop-dead gorgeous vamp Eric Sinclair. But all is not merry and bright- Betsy is plagued by ghosts who demand her help in rectifing their past mistakes, and a serial killer is on the loose. With his victims all being tall, blond women. Betsy fits the profile exactly...."

Dum-Da Da- Dum!

This book as it all... humor, love, drama all tied up in the Undead! And you think your family get together's have drama! I don't think so!! HA HA HA!

On my rating scale I am going to have to give this book.... hmm... crap.... sorry Mary Janice Davidson, this book is only going to get a 3 star out of me! Only because I have read the others in the series... I have faith in you girl, the next two you are going to nail lit! Like how I talked to the author like she is ever going to read my little ol' blog!? HA!

Until next time....

Happy Reading!

Undead and Unappreciated

Undead and Unappreciated is the third book in the series on Queen Betsy, by Mary Janice Davidson. I was hoping to be done with this series before the New Year, so I could start all my challenges, but I have had a slow week, which means my challenges are going to be started late... have to finish a series once I start it, lol!

" Most women would love to live as royalty, but Betsy has found that being vampire queen has more problems than perks, except for always being awake for Midnight Madness sales. It may be easy to find blood ( yuck) in the dark of night, but try finding a strawberry smoothie. And employess at her nightclub Scratch have been giving her nothing but grief since she killed their former boss. Some people.....

But Betsy's "life" takes an intresting turn at a shower for her wicked stepmother, who let's it slip that Betsy has a lonh-lost half sister. Now twenty years old, this woman just so happens to be the devil's daughter-and destined to rule the world....."

( as written on inside cover)

Okay, this is going to sound odd, especially since I am all about the Vampire queen and her addiction to Prada shoes and the likes of that, but I cross the line at the devil as a half sister, lol! Might be a little far fetched... even for me!

With that said I still enjoyed this book! I love that this series is a fast and easy read, and incredibly light, despite the topics.... the undead! I give this book... ummmm.... 3 1/2 stars on my rating scale!

Until next time....

Happy Reading

Undead and Unemployed: Book Review

Undead and Unempoyed is the second book in the Queen Betsy series by Mary Janice Davidson.

I finished this book a few days ago, but with the holidays I have been super busy.

" Nothing can make Betsy Taylor give up her shoe fetish- even dying and rising as the new Queen of the Vampires. Being royally undead isn't all it's cracked up to be- there are still bills to be paid. And Betsy is determined to live as normally as possible, even if it means getting a job. A "feet" she accomplishes with panache, landing her dream job selling designer shoes at Macy's.

" Things couldn't be better- except for her new friends, who keep oestering her while she's on the clock. As if she has time to socialise when there are deliciously sinful shoes to try on- and buy at a discount. It seems that vampires are being murdered in St. Paul, and they're all clamoring for Betsy to do something about it. The worst part is she's going to have to enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Sinclair. Now, she's really treading on dangerous ground- high heels and all."

(Above is what you will read on the back cover of book)

I am finding this series to be very entertaining and light, not to mention fast reads! I love that Mary Janice Davidson as made the super natural world collide with the fashion world, it is classic!! If I were ever to become Queen of the Vampires, I would take notes from Queen Betsy, after all I would want to step by best foot forward! HA HA HA!

I give this book a 4 stars on my rating system, I am almost done with the third in the series so stay tuned, and let's not forget 2009 is just around the corner so all of my challenges will start.... wit woo!

Until next time....

Happy Reading!

Undead and Unwed: Book Review

Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson, is the first in the series of books based on the character of Queen Betsy.

" It's been a helluva week for Betsy Talor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites ( besides wasking up in the morgue dressed in a pink suit and cheap shoes courtesy of her stepmother) is that she can't seem to stay dead. Every night she rises, with a horrible craving for blood. She's not taking too well to a liquid diet.

" Worst of all, her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious, power-hungry vampire in fice centuries- a badly dressed Bela Lugosi wannabe natch. Frankly, Betsy couldn't care less about vamp politics, but they have a powerful weapon of persuasion: designer shoes. How can any self-respecting girl say no? But a collection of Ferragamos isn't the only temptation for Betsy. It's a lot safer than the scrumptious Sinclair- a seductive bloodsucker whose sexy gaze seems as dangerous as a stake through the heart...."

The above is the back of the book.

I had a hard time getting into this book, but I am pretty sure it had to do with having a full plate right now, and my reading time has been cut short this week. Holidays make an already packed schedule even busier!

I love that Chick Lit has met vampire fiction, because it doesn't cross the line into me having nightmares, because let's face it.... I am a chicken when it comes to stuff like that, and watching a horror movie is a big no no!

I think Mary Janice Davidson did a good job when creating the character of Betsy. I almost see a tad of myself in her, because man she is one cocky character and she doesn't put up with people's BS, and that is me! HA HA HA!

I look forward to reading the other books in this series, and I am starting the second one tonight.

I give this book 4 stars out of 5

Until next time....

Happy Reading