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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Funny book. I met the author and he autographed the book. Reasonably entertaining, but not riveting. I think that I've finally come to the realization that Felix Gomez simply isn't that bright or good at being a PI. I'll probably keep reading about Felix, but I am getting a bit bored. I did get a chuckle out of the fact that I was reading this book on the way to a vacation in Hilton Head Island given that a chunk of the story takes place on Hilton Head Island. The 3rd book in the Felix Gomez series. About a former solider who was turned into a vampire in Iraq. He returns home and becomes a PI. There is a network of vampires who band together and help each other out, or if not possible, get rid of the evidence of their existence. Humans are not allowed into the secret unless they are blood donors called 'Chalices'. The series opened with aliens, and in this book they are back. They are now kidnapping and selling human females off planet as pets, and the government is aware, and covering up for power and technology. Felix is caught up in the plot when his alien contact from the first book is murdered, and then a chalice who belonged to the leader of the Denver nest is also killed. This all happens in Florida where Felix is on vacation from Denver. The Kama Sutra, only makes a brief appearance and is quickly forgotten, other than for bad sex jokes. The book again is mostly action, sex, and ogling female body parts. It is tighter than the second book, and not as crude as the first. There are lots of clues and story hooks, but Felix isn't going round and round, so the story moves forward. The book ends with the leader of the Denver nest, a woman, being beamed into space, after being sold. Of course her friends and the vampire power structure want her back, but have no way to make it happen. Its left as a future plot hook. It was a quick read, with some fun, but I don't really care about many of the characters, and just when one starts to matter, s/he is no longer in the story. The first book in the series was somewhat amusing. Each succeeding book has felt less fresh and has been less enjoyable. I won't stick around for the fourth. The third in Acevedo's series, The Undead Kama Sutra continues the adventures of vampire PI Felix Gomez as he solves mysteries and worries about bigger conspiracies that threaten both humans and vampires. The series is light, a bit sarcastic, and doesn't take itself too seriously. Good fun! no reviews | add a review
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Felix Gomez returned from the war in Iraq a changed man—once a soldier, now forever a vampire. So the undead underworld put his skills to work as a private detective, specializing in the sordid, the sexy, and the supernatural.
After surviving aliens, nymphomaniacs, and x-rated bloodsuckers, it's high time for a vacation. Now the aliens are back in a fiendish conspiracy with the U.S. government, and only Felix stands between them and the Earth women they covet. But when an army hit man attacks Felix and the bodacious vampire sexpert, Carmen, not even the astonishing erotic powers of the Kama Sutra for the Undead may be able to save them.
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400)
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