Light story about a housewife who becomes a vampire.

When Jessica Matthews is attacked and nearly killed she's turned into a vampire by the sexy Patrick O'Halloran she finds herself living a different life. The fact that pretty much the whole town ends up living a vampiric life makes this interesting. When she discovers that if she has sex with a vampire they're partners for 100 years she has a lot of choices to make.

It's light vampire romance lit. It's nothing earthshaking but I did enjoy the read. ( )

I wasn't expecting much of this book/series for a chick lit/paranormal romance. I was surprised out how good this book/series was. Funny, witty, lil bit of sex. I greatly enjoyed this book. ( )

Hilarious, sexy, easy, read. Makes u wish u were the main character! Author does a great job mixing sexiness, humor, and eroticism. If you love vampire fiction/romance, you will LOVE this book! ( )

This book wasn't very good. I wanted to like it and was so excited to find it at my local used bookstore. The concept was fresh and fun. A vampire accidentally turns a bunch of housewives (and one househusband) into vampires. The vampire group (policticians kinda) buy out the rest of the dying town and come up with a plan to run it specifically to suit vampires and other supernatural creatures. The whole first half of the book seemed very disjointed. I had a hard time keeping up with what was going around because I felt like the author kept changing ideas when the first points hadn't been completed. Often I had to go back and re-read something to see what I missed. The vampire hero and the newly turned housewife vampire fell in love almost instantaneously and their 'obstacle' to happy ever after felt forced. The best part of this book involved Jessica, our heroine, dealing with the betrayal of her now deceased husband and coming to terms with his mistress and her husband's 'love' child. That story actually felt real and Jessica's emotions worked positively here. There were some cute scenes but this book was also overly heavy on sexual descriptions. There was so much sex it was boring. Usually I go on and on about how I enjoy a story's secondary characters, but these were one deminsional and dull. I have the next two books already and I will read them, but here is to hoping they aren't all like this. Side note: I have a friend who devours books like I do, and she only made it to page 50 before she returned it to the library. ( )

First off I should say books with a lot of romantic angst really turn me off. That said, this book had a LOT of romantic angst - strike one. A lame start and a melodramatic finish combine for another strike. I do have to give the author some credit though and say that some of the vamp/Celtic history in the middle was interesting, the paranormal town premise was interesting, and there were a few funny moments with the kids and the werewolves (and, once, an unfortunate cat). However, the highly annoying main character brings us to... strike 3 - and you're out. ( )

What kind of book do you get when you mix the chick-lit sass of a soccer mom with the urban fantasy cool of a vampire clan? A really clever book, that's what.

Jessica Matthews is like any other homemaking mom when she and ten of her fellow residents of Broken Heart, Oklahoma wake up dead. Or rather-- undead. Whoops. Jess and her friends have been accidentally noshed on by a vampire being treated for an illness spreading amongst vampire kind known as the Taint. Lucky for the PTA they couldn't catch the disease as humans and a group of parakind known as the Consortium has brought them all back to life (or unlife) as vamps. How can the PTA raise kids when they drop dead asleep every morning and don't rise until dark? And what does this mean for their sex lives?

In Jessica's case this means she has to choose between her kids and the hot Irish stud who sired her. Or does it? You're just gonna have to read the book to find out.

Although lacking in the darker undertones of a good urban fantasy, I'm the Vampire, That's Why is a sexy and witty novel filled with all the elements of good fluffy fiction. If you prefer your paranormal romances to be darker, angstier and more serious you might not enjoy this book. But if you like to mix it up now and again with a light-hearted and more comedic story this is a standout for the genre. I didn't fall in love with our hero and heroine so much as the outside players from the German werewolf guardians and the dreamy actor Johnny Angelo (you'll love the James Dean clone) to Jessica's typical kids and her small town friends.

This is a paranormal with real heart and while lighter, fluffier reading than the heavy-weights of the genre this series is going onto my favorites shelf. ( )

I enjoyed this. The flavor of her writing is similar to MaryJanice Davidson with a bit more heat. These are written first person style and (having read the others) each book is from a new character's point of view.

The premise is unique and funny as is her paranormal world that exists right alongside our normal one. And I FINALLY know where the 'banishing between worlds' reference that confused me in book three came from! ( )

A little more crude than I would like, but an interesting story nonetheless. ( )

A quick fun read with likable characters. This is found in the Romance section (a section I do not go to when looking for something to read) because it is categorized by the publisher as a “paranormal romance”. When did “paranormal romance” become an actual category of books? The “romance” (aka: sex) in this particular book feels a little amateurish and forced. I would prefer the scenes be whittled down and faded out and left to the imagination, which would allow the book to be in the regular fiction section of the bookstore, and categorized as something more truthful: paranormal chick lit.

I expected that there would be more domestic comedy with the vampire twist. This is what the cover and blurbs seemed to promise. The book was too much about high vampire politics. The sex scenes came too quickly, and they were too long. I kept thinking, enough already!! The Irish twist in this book was interesting, and this would have been a good background for the domestic comedy. I liked when Ruadan appeared late in the book, but it was too little too late. I would have welcomed more of the tone sounded in the daughters essay about her new family, but this was nearly the last thing in the book. I will give the sequel a chance, I guess. ( )