I loved "A Quick Bite", I didn't love "Love Bites", but I found some funny and entertaing bits in "Single White Vampire". Unfortunately "Tall, Dark and Hungry" is the worst of the Argeneau Vampire stories so far. I kinda liked the characters of Terri and Bastian but the story was pretty boring. Chris was an obvious device Sands manufactured into the story for no point except to add humor...and he wasn't nearly as humorous as he was in "Single White Vampire". The story dragged on FOREVER. This pretty much read like any standard romance and you could go a hundred pages without realizing this was a group of Vampires you are reading about. I wanted to like this book, truly I did. There was just too much boring sex, forced romance, and none of Sand's trademark humor. I already own the next two books. If I didn't already own them, I certainly wouldn't be seeking them out. A better paranormal romance series is Kerrelyn Sparks "Love At Stake" books. They annoy me occasionally also, but not one of those stories has ever been as nearly unreadable as this one. ( )

It’s amazing what Tall Dark and Handsome does to any story. Sands’ gives a semi-new twist to the idea of a vampire. Of course, this is in romance setting, so we see more of the complexity of living as a vampire and trying to have a relationship at the same time. Bastien Argeneau is the one everyone goes to when they’re in trouble. He’s even the one trying to find a way for his cousin to drink blood without having to do it the old fashion way. Now enters Terri. She’s flown to the United States from England to help with her best friends wedding, who happens to be marrying Bastien’s brother. As the two get thrown together in helping with wedding plans, they start to throw themselves at each other.

Throughout the story, Sands’ walks around the issue of Bastien’s vampirism as well as Terri’s feelings for the terminally ill and how the two are complete opposites yet can share all the same characteristics. This isn’t your normal paranormal vampire tale, this is the fun kind.

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When is a vampire not a vampire? I do love this series that lets the vampires have the best of both worlds. They can go out in the sun, and can drink bagged blood and read minds - really what is the downside?

Bastien is an "A" type personality that has lost control. Terri is a free-spirit who refuses to conform. Of course, it is a match made for mayhem. A cute little story, but hard to take as a stand-alone, since so little background on the vampires is given until the very end of the book. Also, it is disappointing to not see the relationship go through Terri's conversion. That would have really set Bastien on his ear and made for a more emotional storyline. ( )

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#13, 2005

The third in this series (I guess I'm in the mood for vampire books - this ISN'T one of the Southern Vampire novels, though, but a different series by another author), I found this book disappointing. I enjoyed the first in the series, Love Bites, very much - I thought it was fresh and funny and gave an interesting explanation for vampirism (they're not undead - they're humans with an engineered thingy in their blood which repairs damage, allowing for near immortality). The second book in the series I found a bit too much like the first; this third one was just more of the same. Although the books focus on one family, there is no character development from one book to the next, as each book is centered on a different member of the family. In all three books, a male vampire and human woman fall in love, and after some misadventures end up "happily ever after." Very fluffy, very predicable, and very dull, after the first one. I won't read another in this series. I should have followed my instinct and skipped this one, as well. ( )