Monday 2 December 2013

One Lucky Vampire

One Lucky Vampire (Argeneau, #19)

One Lucky Vampire is the latest book in  Lynsay Sands' Argeneau series.  The series is about a race made immortal by nanotech that keeps them at their peak health, but the nanos require more blood than the body can provide, so the immortals have to drink blood to supplement the nanos.

Jake Colson is not happy about being a immortal, even if the rest of his family are immortals.  He turned down the chance to turn at eighteen, and was turned against his will at 51 when an attack left him at death's door.  Angry and confused he turns his back on his family and moves to Ottawa to work as a body guard.

Seven years later, he is contacted by Marguerite about protecting the niece of her housekeeper, Nicole Philips.  Nicole is a noted portrait artist who happens to be going through a nasty divorce.  Her cousin worries that her soon-to-be ex is trying to kill her for money, so Marguerite has Jake posing as her housekeeper/cook in order to keep an eye on Nicole.

Jake might have gotten more than he bargained for with Nicole. Not only cannot he not read her thoughts, being that she must be his lifemate, but someone is definitely out to kill her.

I have to admit this is not my favorite of the series.  The story really felt rushed, and I didn't get a proper amount of time to fall in love with the characters.  Jake and Nicole felt a little one dimensional, especially after they kissed because from that point the book was mostly consumed by their physical relationship.  Now don't get me wrong, I love a good steamy romance scene, but there has got to be more to the story than that for me to really get behind the book. I am a little disappointed, Ms. Sands usually does a better job of bringing her characters to life than she did in this story.

Currently Reading:
Allegiant
by Veronica Roth

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