I’m the Vampire, That’s Why by Michele Bardsley

I read this book because the title and cover cracked me up:

It’s pretty much what it looks like.

Would I recommend it? I can’t recommend it because then you might read it and think things like “She liked this?! She read this?!” and that would just be embarrassing. But, I will quote Janet Evanovich when she says: “Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

Personally I’m not actually sure a person needs lots but one every now and then…

P.S. To answer Johns ever present vampire question- No, these vampires don’t sparkle.

The Infernals and The Creeps by John Connolly

Nov13

When you read these books, as you should, I highly recommend starting with The Gates. Not only will the books make more sense, as books in series are wont to do when read in sequential order, but then when the author berates readers for reading out of order as he provides/reminds the reader of important details in the footnotes, you can giggle and smirk because you are not one of those readers yet still get the benefit of the reminder.

Brilliant.

Would I recommend them? Yes.

I did mention the footnotes and my love of them but I didn’t tell you about the chapter titles. Here is my favorite from The Creeps:

“In Which We Go on a Date – Well, Not “We” as in You and I, Because That Would Just Be Awkward, but We Go on a Date with Other People. No, Hang on, That’s Still Not Right. Oh, Never Mind Just Read the Chapter.”