From Just-Laid-Off Secretary to Queen of the Undead…
It's been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses
her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what
really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in a pink suit and cheap
shoes courtesy of her stepmother) is that she can't seem to stay dead. Every
night she rises, with a horrible craving for blood. She's not taking too well
to a liquid diet.
Worst of all, her new friends have the ridiculous idea that
Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing
the most obnoxious, power-hungry vampire in five centuries—a badly dressed Bela
Lugosi wannabe, natch. Frankly, Betsy couldn’t care less about vamp politics,
but they have a powerful weapon of persuasion: designer shoes. How can any
self-respecting girl say no? But a collection of Ferragamos isn’t the only
temptation for Betsy. It’s just a lot safer than the scrumptious Sinclair—a seductive
bloodsucker whose sexy gaze seems as dangerous as a stake through the heart…
Undead and Unwed (Queen Betsy, book one) by MaryJanice Davidson
Start date: Tuesday, July 8, 2014
End date: Friday, July 11, 2014
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
When the novel begins, Elizabeth "Betsy" Taylor is already (un)dead. The day before her death unfolds in that she is late for work, fixes the copy machine for her incompetent coworkers, and chases after her cat who is stuck in snow on the other side of the road. A truck hits her while she crosses the street and her body slams into a tree, killing her. She wakes up in a funeral parlor dressed in a tacky, pink power suit and her stepmother's last year, knock-off designer shoes. It's her mission to recover her designer shoes from her stepmother, which she does within the first forty pages, and then the rest of the novel is focused on other vampires mixing her up in their politics.