Title: Could have been better.
Product review: I read this book as a way to soothe my longing for a new Sookie Stackhouse novel. Oddly, I was a little put off by how derivative it was of a Sookie novel. Honestly, the main love interest is named Eric...strange. But generally I thought it was a way to meld vampire fiction with Gone With the Wind, which the author obviously likes since she references it in her book. The heroine is a 21st century Scarlett O'Hara and the Eric Sinclaire character is her Rhett Butler. Some of the jokes were a little lame and at the level of a middle schooler. There were times when I wished a character would stake her protagonist with the heel of one of her beloved Manolos. Also, as an African American her treatment of the two black characters was very bad. It's like she learned about black people by watching 70s sitcoms and blaxploitation films. Still, I applaud her for having black characters at all. Overall it's an okay book, but nothing I would regret not reading.
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