Genre: Paranormal Romance (Humour, explicit sex scenes, vampires, highlanders, teleportation, mystery)
Series: Book one in the Love At Stake series
Original Language: English
Publisher: Avon
Country: USA
Publication Date: July 26, 2005
ISBN: 0060751967
Page Count: 384
My Rating: ★★★★
Summary
So what if he's a bit older and usually regards a human female as dinner, not a dinner date? Yes, Roman Draganesti is a vampire, but a vampire who lost one of his fangs sinking his teeth into something he shouldn't have. Now he has one night to find a dentist before his natural healing abilities close the wound, leaving him a lop–sided eater for all eternity.
Things aren't going well for Shanna Whelan either...After witnessing a gruesome murder by the Russian mafia, she's next on their hit list. And her career as a dentist appears to be on a downward spiral because she's afraid of blood. When Roman rescues her from an assassination attempt, she wonders if she's found the one man who can keep her alive. Though the attraction between them is immediate and hot, can Shanna conquer her fear of blood to fix Roman's fang? And if she does, what will prevent Roman from using his fangs on her...
Things aren't going well for Shanna Whelan either...After witnessing a gruesome murder by the Russian mafia, she's next on their hit list. And her career as a dentist appears to be on a downward spiral because she's afraid of blood. When Roman rescues her from an assassination attempt, she wonders if she's found the one man who can keep her alive. Though the attraction between them is immediate and hot, can Shanna conquer her fear of blood to fix Roman's fang? And if she does, what will prevent Roman from using his fangs on her...
REVIEW
I really rather enjoyed this. I have to say from the
I was actually rather intrigued by the vampire world Sparks has created here. You've got your good vampires who are striving to be as little a threat to humans as possible- using science to create synthetic blood and banning drinking for the flesh. And then you've got the malcontents who are, in their mind, true vampires, that feed on humans without regard, drinking them to the quick.
In this book we meet Roman, the leader of one of the largest American vampire covens. A 544 year old vamp with a very poor opinion of himself. A man with a brilliant scientific mind who has made many breakthroughs for vampire society with his blood replacement drinks. He is also working on a formula to help them stay awake (and alive) during the day. Apart from this work, though, Roman has very little in his life that he truly enjoys, and is rather maudlin at the beginning of the book.
Then we meet our lovely dentist Shanna. She is currently in the witness protection programme. She needs protection; Roman needs a dentist. And so they team up, and of course, this being paranormal romance land, it's not long before they start to have feelings for each other.
The romance element was quite well played out. There was a fair bit of worldbuilding but it was all interesting enough. I've read a number of vampire series' and I've never read one with this particular view on science and vamp self improvement before. I also really liked Roman's bodyguards - a bunch of kilt-wearing highlanders! (It's like she looked into my mind and went "Okay, she likes vampires? Check. She likes hunky highlanders? Check. She likes situational comedy and juvenile humour? Check"). It could have been written specifically for me!
In summation, while this book won't be going on any of my favourites list, it certainly was very enjoyable and I will definitely be reading the rest of the series whenever I need a bit of light relief.
Interesting! I've seen this book, but I had the same kind of expectations you did. Maybe I'll have to give it a try now.
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