TALL, DARK & HUNGRY

Author: Lynsay Sands ISBN: 05055258367/2004 PRESENT/VAMPIRE Publisher: Love Spell

It bit: New York hotels cost an arm and a leg, and Terri had flown from England to help plan her cousin’s wedding. The new in-laws offered lodging. But they were a weird bunch. There was the sometimes-chipper-sometimes-brooding Lucern, and the wacky stage-actor Vincent. (She couldn’t imagine Broadway casting a hungrier singing-and-dancing Dracula.) And then there was Bastien. Just looking into his eyes, Terri had to admit she was falling for him--someone even taller, darker, and hungrier than the other two. She was feeling a mite peckish herself. And if she stayed with him, those bloodsucking hotel owners wouldn’t get her!

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

I love the title of Lynsay Sands newest release, TALL, DARK & HUNGRY! I was hoping for a bit more of the hungry part in this follow up to LOVE BITES and SINGLE WHITE VAMPIRE, but there are quite a few chuckles and some steamy love scenes to keep one interested.

This one focuses on Bastien, the most stable, and certainly the most reliable, of the vampire brothers Argeneau. Unfortunately for Mr. Dependable Bastien, nothing with his brother Lucern and sister-in-law-to-be Kate's wedding is going smoothly. There is his hungry cousin Vincent, Kate's editor, CK, who collects disaster like trophies, and Kate's sizzling hot cousin and maid of honor, Terri, all staying at his penthouse. Suffice it to say, with all those people and an upcoming wedding to plan, Bastien's life is turned humorously upside down!

This is a cute, funny, and sexy book. Not quite as good as the other two I mentioned, but definitely sweeter and more in-depth than usual. I do believe it's a terrific follow up to the other books, since it would have to be difficult for Sands to try to top the scene in SINGLE WHITE VAMPIRE when Lucern has his codpiece stuck to a tablecloth at a Romantic Times convention! Or, when Etienne keeps "dying" in hilarious scenes during LOVE BITES.

Shannon Johnson