I've never gotten into Chick Lit books where the characters spew brand names and ramble on about shoes or hair care products but since this also had vampires I figured I would give it a try. It was amusing but not that gripping and I still have no idea why on earth any of the characters put up with the main character. Sure she had a tiny bit of hidden depth, because no-one can be as shallow as she first appears, but honestly I would be driven insane by the twit if I ever met her. Not a series I will be looking for...oh, and the sex scenes were really dull and did nothing for me as well. Rather pedestrian in general. ( )

What do you do when you wake up dead and dressed in knock-off threads? Betsy has a lot to figure out. ( )

Hilarious!! Not yoru average vampire/paranormal romance. Had me cracking up the whole book. ( )

I've heard about this book on and off for the last three years or so. It's a vampire chick lit series. Seriously.

Betsy has a horrible birthday: she loses her job and then she gets run over by an SUV. The next thing she knows, she finds herself in a coffin (mercifully not buried yet...I got really creeped out by the short scene of her figuring out she's in a coffin) and then realizing that she is a vampire.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the setting for this weird little book was Minneapolis. The vampire mansion is on Lake Minnetonka, Betsy does some crimefighting along Lake Street, and her old apartment is in Edina. She's got a couple of good friends that stick with her even though she's undead. The other vampires don't know what to think of her though...holy water makes her sneeze instead of burn, she can walk around in daylight without bursting into flames, and she is able to wear a crucifix without turning into ashes. She simply HAS to be the Vampire Queen of the prophecy.

Betsy's a bit dippy for me, as are most chick lit heroines (seriously, I don't think shoes are THAT IMPORTANT), but it was still pretty funny. It's got a romancey aspect to it, but I wouldn't call it a romance novel. It's an incredibly unique concept for a book, and a refreshing one. This is the first ever vampire book I've ever read. Vampires have always freaked me out (I can't stand the sight or mention of blood) but it's hard to be freaked out by crimefighting vampires that obsess about fashion. ( )

This is light-weight frothy fun. Betsy is a bimbo: blonde, ex-cheerleader, vain, flightly, the works. She gets assaulted by some tramps, then several months later hit by a car whilst rescuing her cat.

Then she wakes up a vampire in the mortuary a few days later. However, she's not exactly a typical vampire - she can stand in sunlight (if she can stay awake), enter church, stand the touch of holy water etc.

As she tries to come to terms with her new unlife, the pros and cons, her friends and the like, the vampires around her want to use her, dominate her or control her - vampire politics turns out to be a big thing. Then it's revealed she's the prophesied queen of the vampires.

This could be really heavy, but Betsy in particular is presented as a bimbo with a heart of gold, and there's a lot of humourous touches that make it fly along whilst still giving you enough to appreciate the back-story that is there too when you're dealing with characters centuries old. ( )