Sherry F. (sherryfair) reviewed on 12/10/2005 + 55 more book reviews

Well, this was lighter than dandelion fluff, and I breezed through it in just a couple hours. It's told by a first-person narrator, Betsy Taylor, a tall blonde former model with a smart mouth and a lust for designer shoes. She has a very, very bad day which ends with her being laid off from her dead-end job and then hit by a car & killed. Only this is a black comedy, so it's not as appalling as it sounds. In fact, Betsy's still narrating this (kind of like William Holden floating in his swimming pool) because she wakes up in the funeral home as a vampire with supernatural powers. In fact, she is the queen of the vampires. This was a sexually frank book, even a little kinky, but above all, it's an amazingly efficient mechanism for delivering one-liners, one after the other, at the rapid pace of a TV sitcom. This author's a great joke writer! Though the jokes are so topical in some cases that I wonder if they'll make sense to some readers in about five years. Sorry, when I heard the love interest had an Elvis pompadour, that killed the sexual chemistry for me (ha!), because I pictured the older, double-chinned Elvis, stuffed into a jump suit. Still, the book does really well exactly what it set out to do: beguile away three hours or so by making you laugh. Though I'm not going to pursue the series any further, I can see why it might be addictive. But also, why for some, the joke-after-joke dialogue might wear out its welcome after a while.

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