Helpful Score: 7
I was really looking forward to this book. Ava had such a reputation from previous books of being very intelligent and very fiesty. Well she was fiesty in this book but alot of her decision making was not very smart. Dima is a vampire who is over 700 years old who rescues Ava after she is attacked by a vampire. I didn't think the romance between Ava and Dima was great at all. It was more like he loved her and she tolerated him. I must say that I was disappointed in this book. I guess I expected more.
Helpful Score: 3
I generally prefer more sci-fi/fantasy vampire sort of books, but a friend gave me this and a few other paranormal romances. I have also read book 6 of the series (Others) about one of Ava's friends and I think I might have enjoyed both stories better if I read the whole series to have a slightly greater attachment to the characters. It's a typical romance in that two people get thrown together and have instant and permanent attraction but fight it, and clear thinking and communication don't happen right away otherwise these books would be a lot shorter. They meet, he saves her life, she doesn't listen, she eventually realizes she's behaving like a spoiled brat, more stuff happens (hey - I don't want to spoil the book by giving away much more than what's on the back cover)... I was waiting for something different about her bloodline/background than what it turned out to be, but it was an ok read for a couple of hours of fluff. I'm very happy to pass it on to others and won't treasure it forever though, so enjoy.
Helpful Score: 2
I've read the other books in this series (the collective Fantasy Fix set) and was looking forward to Ava's story. She came across as that popular mean girl whom the other characters loved, but were slightly afraid of offending. I couldn't wait to see what Warren had in store for her. I was surprised and disappointed to see that Warren placed her in the heroine-who-makes-purile-decisions category. It seemed out of character for Ava to make some of these decisions, even to meet a plot device. It was a pleasant read, but I believe that One Bite With A Stranger was far superior.
Helpful Score: 2
Christine Warren is a hit or miss for me too. This one is a miss. I couldn't even finish because I just got sick of Ava's attitude and stupidity. She is also very childish and I have no idea why anyone would want tobe around her.
Wish Warren spent more time on the search for Liza because that was interesting.
Not worth the time, even though I've read most in the series.
Wish Warren spent more time on the search for Liza because that was interesting.
Not worth the time, even though I've read most in the series.
Helpful Score: 2
Overall I enjoy this series, but this book was not one of my favorites. The hero sums up my problem with it pretty well on page 213, "The Ava he loved was prickly, arrogant, rude, stubborn, ungracious, mostly tactless, haughty, and occasionally cruel." I prefer my heroines a little more likable than that! We're supposed to feel sorry for her because her parents were duds, but it's hard for me to generate lots of sympathy for a world famous model. One Bite with a Stranger by this author is a much better read.
Helpful Score: 1
I really could not get into this book, I feel like Warren is a hit or miss. I am giving her the benefit of the doubt since is a reprint of her fantasy fix series and NOT book 7 in the series.
I thought this book was ok, but I think it was only because of the previous characters who made an appearance in the story. Good plot but only if Ms Warren had put more substance into it I could have really like this book.
Not a bad read. Light and fluffy!
This is a very. Ms Warren knocks my socks off with her NOW phrases. She says the darnest things and makes you think that you are actually listening to a conversation. I keep laughing and then I have to read partad it to my husband so HE can laught also. You should read these books in order..... but you dont have to. Just read and enjoy...:)
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I have never liked Ava throughout the series, she is a very unlikable character. And for her to finally have her happy ending is a little hard to believe. I liked that Dima is Misha's long lost brother. But in truth i skimmed thru most of this story just so i could find out what happened with "Liza" the escaped vampire Dima came here to recapture. I am more inclined to be happy that Dima got his happy ending....
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Finally, the last lady from the beginning book finds her love. Yes, he is a vampire but he is man enough for her. It was a very good book and had the humor I have come to expect. Great read!
So far this is the weakest of Christine Warren's Others series that I have read. Ada Markham still can't quite accept that her best friends have all turned to or into Others and is feeling quite resentful in her loneliness. Fate conspires against her when she is attacked by a vampire and turned into one herself.
Vladimir "Dima" Rurikovich is an elite member of the European Council of Vampires and is in America on a covert mission - to find an escaped vampire fugitive who is murdering humans wantonly. He comes upon Ada and rescues her from death and nurses her through a painful transformation, falling in love with her in the process.
It's all rather formulaic within the genre and within Warren's world of Others, and this story is weaker than most of hers. I could not relate to the characters, particularly the bitchy Ada, and found myself bored through most of this book. The only real entertainment was when Ada's friends and their spouses came into the picture.
Vladimir "Dima" Rurikovich is an elite member of the European Council of Vampires and is in America on a covert mission - to find an escaped vampire fugitive who is murdering humans wantonly. He comes upon Ada and rescues her from death and nurses her through a painful transformation, falling in love with her in the process.
It's all rather formulaic within the genre and within Warren's world of Others, and this story is weaker than most of hers. I could not relate to the characters, particularly the bitchy Ada, and found myself bored through most of this book. The only real entertainment was when Ada's friends and their spouses came into the picture.
Good read. For those of us who started with the world of the Others back in the Fantasy Fix ebook days [fyi: Fantasy Fix was rewritten as One Bite With a Stranger] it's good to finally see Ava fall. Her sarcastic 'Queen Bitch' attitude is alive and well - even though it takes a hit when she is violently turned from human to vampire. Her teeth-grinding suppression of her prejudices and fears of the Others community, even and perhaps especially her dearest friends, makes becoming a vampire her...more Good read. For those of us who started with the world of the Others back in the Fantasy Fix ebook days [fyi: Fantasy Fix was rewritten as One Bite With a Stranger] it's good to finally see Ava fall. Her sarcastic 'Queen Bitch' attitude is alive and well - even though it takes a hit when she is violently turned from human to vampire. Her teeth-grinding suppression of her prejudices and fears of the Others community, even and perhaps especially her dearest friends, makes becoming a vampire herself even more terrifying...
Of course there's Dima - her not-quite-in-time rescuer who eases her conversion and wants to teach her how to be a successful [and happy:] vampire. But Ava doesn't want to be a vampire and she doesn't want to be happy - she just wants her old life back. So maybe if she just ignores everything it will all go away...
Complications abound - there's a connection between Dima and Reggie's Dmitri, there's political maneuvering between the European Vampire Council and the American Others, and then there's the insane female vampire who plans to take over the world...one body at a time.
Fixed
1. Fantasy Fix (2003)
2. Fur Factor (2003)
3. Faer Fetched (2004)
4. Fighting Faer (2004)
5. Fur For All (2004)
6. Fur Play (2003)
Fantasy Fix
Novels of the Others
1. Wolf at the Door (2006)
2. She's No Faerie Princess (2006)
3. The Demon You Know (2007)
4. Howl At the Moon (2007)
5. Walk On the Wild Side (2008)
6. One Bite with a Stranger (2008)
7. You're So Vein (2009)
Of course there's Dima - her not-quite-in-time rescuer who eases her conversion and wants to teach her how to be a successful [and happy:] vampire. But Ava doesn't want to be a vampire and she doesn't want to be happy - she just wants her old life back. So maybe if she just ignores everything it will all go away...
Complications abound - there's a connection between Dima and Reggie's Dmitri, there's political maneuvering between the European Vampire Council and the American Others, and then there's the insane female vampire who plans to take over the world...one body at a time.
Fixed
1. Fantasy Fix (2003)
2. Fur Factor (2003)
3. Faer Fetched (2004)
4. Fighting Faer (2004)
5. Fur For All (2004)
6. Fur Play (2003)
Fantasy Fix
Novels of the Others
1. Wolf at the Door (2006)
2. She's No Faerie Princess (2006)
3. The Demon You Know (2007)
4. Howl At the Moon (2007)
5. Walk On the Wild Side (2008)
6. One Bite with a Stranger (2008)
7. You're So Vein (2009)
Another winner! Great story line great plot didn't change the character of the people we had already come to know nor did she try to get to wrapped up in the villian and why they were being a villian. Loved it Absolutely a Greaqt read read it in two days only put it down to go to bed!
I liked it well enough to round out the stories of this particular cast of characters.
It could have been fleshed out a bit more, but I know some of the books in the series may have started out as short stories.
I am looking forward to her next one
It could have been fleshed out a bit more, but I know some of the books in the series may have started out as short stories.
I am looking forward to her next one
Good read, book 7 of a series but good stand alone...
This is my first of Ms Warren's and I'm looking forward to reading more
can stand alone fast read
I enjoyed this book.
enjoyable read.
This is the last of the Fantasy fix BFF's. Ava Markham has pressure all around her but her company of models and her aging. Everything was going like her everyday until she is assaulted by a murderous vamp but she is rescued by a vampire slayer named Vladimir Rurikovich, but she is now one of the undead and its up to Vlad to teach her the vamp ways. Ava and Vlad fight nonstop until he mans up and show her how he feels. Vlad is on a mission to find a certain vampire that he has been hunting down for centuries until Ava goes to her fiend Regina's house and he finds the vamp he has been searching for, his own brother Demi.
Ava Markham is beautiful, savvy, chic, and more at home with Kate Spade than with the idea of fangs and fur. She cant get quite used to the fact that some of closest friends have crossed over to the Other side. Then one night she is attacked by a rogue vampire, and her deepest fears are realized when her body begins a dangerous transformation from human to immortala change she cannot survive without the help of an alluring stranger who comes to her rescue
YOURE SO VEIN
Vladimir Rurikovich, an elite member of the European Council of Vampires, is on the prowl for a murderous vampire fugitive on the night he saves Ava from the clutches of death. It takes just one look for Dima to know he cannot live another eight centuries without the stunning and seductive Avauntil he discovers a secret about her bloodline that could change everything
YOURE SO VEIN
Vladimir Rurikovich, an elite member of the European Council of Vampires, is on the prowl for a murderous vampire fugitive on the night he saves Ava from the clutches of death. It takes just one look for Dima to know he cannot live another eight centuries without the stunning and seductive Avauntil he discovers a secret about her bloodline that could change everything
