Book Review: A Girl’s Guide to Vampires

A Girl’s Guide to Vampires (Dark Ones #1)

Author :  KatieMacAlister

Publication:  Love Spell

Publication Date: 29^th October 2003

Source: E-book owned by reviewer

Buy it at Barnes and Noble and Amazon

Audience: Adult; Paranormal Romance

Synopsis

From Goodreads.com:

All Joy Randall wants is a little old-fashioned romance, but when she participates in a "Goddess evoking" ceremony with her friend, Roxy, Joy finds out her future true love is a man with the potential to put her immortal soul in danger. At first the ever-practical Joy is ready to dismiss her vision as a product of too much gin and too many vampire romances, but while traveling through the Czech Republic with Roxy, Joy begins to have some second thoughts about her mystery lover because she is suddenly plagued by visions of a lethally handsome stranger. Then, when she and Roxy attend a local GothFaire, Joy meets Raphael Griffin St. John, head of security, and she becomes even more bewildered because the dark and dangerous Raphael seems too close to her dreams for comfort.

From Author’s Site (because I love her sense of humour):

Joy Randall’s Top 5 Tips for Vampire Hunters:

1. Location, location, location. Remember, if you wouldn’t be there, neither would a bloodsucker.
2. Trust your eyes. You know the handsome, annoyingly arrogant, self-assured man in the shadows with long hair and a cleft in his chin? He’s your vampire.
3. No matter how tempting it might be, do not “accidentally” acquire a paper cut and suggest YOUR VAMPIRE kiss your finger to make it better.
4. From here on out, play it cool. Don’t offer to accompany your prince of the night on the talk show circuit and whatever you do, don’t offer him your heart.
5. And most of all, remembering a vampire is nothing to laugh about.

Teaser Tuesday: Lover Reborn, A Girl's Guide to Vampires, Bound by Law

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read 
• Open to a random page 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"After nearly two hundred years of having been mated, Tohr was pretty familiar with the way arguments between pigheaded fighters and hot-tempered females went. And how ridiculous was it to have a case of the nostalgias over the way John and Xhex were hair-eyeballing each other.
~ Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood #10) by J. R. Ward, pg. 58 ebook edition

"Oooh, goody, fantasy time!" I rubbed my hands together and thought of the ideal man made up of the better parts of Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, and Oded Fehr, all rolled into one luscious, droolworthy package.
~ A Girl's Guide to Vampires (Dark Ones #1) by Katie MacAlister, Kindle 3%

"You're not getting out of it," Styx told him after he [Paulo] opened his eyes. 
 "Definitely not," Law breathed. 
~ Bound By Law (Men of Honor #2) by S E Jakes, 58% Kindle