Legally Undead
(Vampirarchy Book 1)
(Vampirarchy Book 1)
by Margo
Bond Collins
Paranormal
Romance
Date
Published: May 27, 2014
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A
reluctant vampire hunter, stalking New York City as only a scorned bride can.
Elle
Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then
swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people
to her husband the lawyer.
But
those plans disintegrate when she walks in on a vampire draining the blood from
her fiancé Greg. Horrified, she screams and runs--not away from the vampire,
but toward it, brandishing a wooden letter opener.
As
she slams the improvised stake into the vampire’s heart, a team of black-clad
men bursts into the apartment. Turning around to face them, Elle discovers that
Greg’s body is gone—and her perfect life falls apart.
My Thoughts
Elle has her life all figured out and her plans are
on schedule until one night when she finds a vampire sucking the life out of
her fiancé Greg. That night EVERYTHING
changed. That night her fiancé became a
blood thirsty vampire and she became a vampire hunter - a really kick ass vampire
hunter!
“It’s
never easy to see an ex for the first time after you’ve broken up. Seeing an ex
for the first time after he’s been turned into a bloodthirsty evil creature of
the night is possibly even less easy.”
I totally LOVED Legally Undead! From the very first page, I knew this was not
going to be your typical vampire story. Elle
is totally awesome! She is smart, has a witty
and sarcastic humor , and is just your average girl thrown into a not so
average situation. She is not one to run
away screaming when confronted by a vampire.
Nope, all you get is a squeak
as she gets down and dirty with her wood letter opener in hand, ready to
inflict damage on any evil vampire that crosses her path!
"Have I mentioned how much it sucks (no pun intended) to be hunted
by a vampire? Ruins your whole day"
There is so
much to love about this book - humor, action, mystery and a small bit of
romance. Ms. Collins has written a
vampire story that is a breath of fresh air and I can't wait to read more of
this highly entertaining and addictive series.
If you love vampires then you NEED to read this book.....it's a MUST
read!
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Trailer
Excerpt
The
ballroom was packed. More people had arrived while we were getting dressed.
Women in sequined dresses and men in tuxedos sat around almost all the tables.
Some of them were even eating. Couples crowded the dance floor. The band was
indeed very good--they were playing a version of “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home
to” and the lead singer, a tall woman in a slinky black dress, had a deep,
smoky-sounding voice.
It
would be easy to be charmed by this setting, by all the elegance that
surrounded me.
Of
course, all the vampires that surrounded me weren’t quite so charming. They
were terrifying.
And
in a room full of people, I discovered that it was easy to tell which ones were
vampires and which ones weren’t. Some of
the humans were easy to spot--the ones who were eating food were easy to pick
out as humans, of course, and many of them had bandages or fresh wounds on
various parts of their bodies. The parts where the veins ran close to the
surface: the neck, the crook of the elbow, the wrist.
There
were other humans there, too, though, humans who weren’t eating and who didn’t
have any visible blood-donation marks. But they were clearly human, just as
some of the other people moving around the room were clearly vampires. The
vampires tended toward pallor, of course. And occasionally one flashed a fang
here or there, particularly when they laughed--an effect that I found chilling.
They were mostly extraordinarily beautiful, but then, so were the humans.
Deirdre seemed to like surrounding herself with beauty.
It
had something to do with the energy the vampires projected, I guess. They
seemed strangely brittle, yet almost vibrating with a nervous vitality. I’ve
seen a similar thing with people who were on the verge of an emotional
breakdown but attempting to hide it. I’ve also seen it in people with bipolar
disorder. It’s a sort of forced, manic gaiety verging on hysteria.
But
that energy was combined with an indolence of movement. They swayed through the
room slowly, languorously, all the while virtually quivering with some
suppressed power.
All
in all, it was just about the creepiest thing I’d ever seen--toward the top of
the list, anyway, right after “Seeing My Beloved Eaten.”
I
recognized now some of that same energy in Greg himself. It wasn’t as pronounced,
but it was there all the same. Perhaps it grew with age.
That
meant that I was in a room full of old--perhaps very old--vampires.
God.
I was in big trouble.
Author Bio
Margo
Bond Collins is the author of a number of novels, including Waking Up Dead,
Fairy, Texas, and Legally Undead (forthcoming May 27, 2014). She lives in Texas
with her husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. She teaches
college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love.
She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends
most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves,
and other monsters.
Author Links
Email: MargoBondCollins@gmail.com
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