I had a hospital appointment on Wednesday and they always run late, so I ended up reading A Quick Bite by Lynsay Sands, a paranormal vampire romance book, and decided to finish it when I got home. Here’s my candid review:
A Quick Bite
Lynsay Sands
That hot guy tied to Lissianna Argeneau’s bed? He’s not dessert—he’s the main course!
Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there’s another, more pressing issue: her tendency to faint at the sight of blood . . . an especially annoying quirk for a vampire. Of course it doesn’t hurt that this man has a delicious-looking neck. What kind of cold-blooded vampire woman could resist a bite of that?
Dr. Gregory Hewitt recovers from the shock of waking up in a stranger’s bedroom pretty quickly—once he sees a gorgeous woman about to treat him to a wild night of passion. But is it possible for the good doctor to find true love with a vampire vixen, or will he be just a good meal? That’s a question Dr. Greg might be willing to sink his teeth into . . . if he can just get Lissianna to bite.
Review
Okay, so I’ve read a later book in the series and it was good enough (borderline) to make me want to read the series from the start, but now I’m not so sure.
A Quick Bite is the story of Lissi, a vampire with hemaphobia, and Greg, a psychiatrist kidnapped by her mother to help her overcome her fear as some sort of twisted birthday present, although I wasn’t quite sure throughout the whole book why she couldn’t have just made some appointments for her daughter instead since the family is supposed to be oh-so-normal and not vampire-like at all.
I have to admit now that I was skipping parts of this book because it wasn’t holding my attention, and the reason for that is as follows.
The story in A Quick Bite was very flat, the writing was childish and in DIRE need of a good editor and perhaps a few lessons in plotting and character creation, and I just couldn’t get past the fact that a psychiatrist who was apparently a genius was acting completely idiotic about what sort of people he was suddenly kidnapped by, and later in the story accepted life as a vampire far too easily. Kudos for having him suffer great pain as part of the transformation, but post-transformation he was perfectly at ease with his new self, happy to bite away and drink blood without any trace of revulsion, and seemed fine with everything that was happening to him. I have great suspension of disbelief but not when characters can do everything without a bit of fight or fear involved and take it all in their stride.
Everything happened far too easily in this book. There was minimal conflict, and minimal fear on the side of the hero. I spotted an insane amount of errors, so much so I was questioning whether I had the wrong version of the book, like an ARC or something rather than the proper release. I scanned my later book, the one I had originally read, and that had errors too, including calling the hero by the WRONG name. It’s unacceptable to get your Hero / Heroine’s name wrong.
I’m still going to read the next one because I have the whole series, but I’m seriously hoping it’s better than this one and that the characters and writing dramatically improves, and the author dumps a hefty dose of conflict and plot into the book!
I don’t recommend this book at all though.
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