I really could not put this book down. I checked it out in my school library and did not read it for at least a week. Then, one night, I was really bored and did not want to go to sleep so I picked up the book. After I got through the first few chapters, I could not put it down! I stayed up for 5 HOURS the next night reading it. After I finished it, I still could not put it down and kept skimming over the whole thing. Now my best friend (a Moravian lover) has checked it out with a promise that she'll get it for me as a birthday present! The sex appeal in this book was so fantastic and not many authors can put that zest into theirs books. Go MacAlister! You ROCK!!!!!!!!

I've read several MacAlister books over the last 6 months and not all of them had Moravians, but they did all leave me wanting another in that particular series. Comparisons to Feehan and Davidson (shudder) be damned. While I can see the similarities others are so quick to point out to Feehan, I can see none to Davidson. I've read the "Undead" series (loaned to me, thank goodness) and my only wish is that Elizabeth had stayed dead. Talk about insipid...how can one person whine so much? But I digress. I don't think MacAlister is shooting for dark, brooding Moravians with no sense of humor (see:Carpathians) but men who can laugh at themselves. I wish I could give this more stars!

When I started to read this book I thought it was stupid, and I questioned wether I would continue on. I had nothing else to read at the time, and pages later the story became somewhat entertaining, so I continue on. I found that the entertainment did not cease in this cute little story, and by the time I read the final page of the book I was glad that I had stuck with it. Regardless of how annoying Roxy was, it was a good book to pick up inbetween reads - I did enjoy the story. Have fun.

First, the title of the book has absolutely nothing to do with the story even though it matches the blurb on the back of the book.

The actual story is about Roxy's efforts to awake the Goddess and give her and her best friend, Joy, a vision of their soul mates. Roxy thinks Joy's current boyfriend is boring and Joy would be better off without him. Joy, who is very tall, thinks any man who would want her is an abnormal one and since she found one she should stick with him, even if he is dull as dishwater.

But after attending a conference in Germany, the women set out to find Roxy a Moravian (vampire), uncover the identity of the writer of her vampire love stories and get all her copies signed, and to find Joy's soul mate. What they find is adventure, as Joy begins to have frightening visions of a vampire and evil, meets a sexy security man (Raphael), a creepy vampire want-to-be who runs a Goth-faire, a scary tarot card reader/black witch and her sister, and the tale of murders in every town the faire visits.

Not bad up to here, but this is where you need to park your brain. Joy who up to now seemed very resourceful and intelligent becomes unable to think things through to a logical conclusion and behaves erratically. Roxy who seemed a bit flakey but otherwise okay turns into a brainless child who has no control over her impulses and curiosity. She totally ignores danger and gets Joy in trouble over and over and can't understand Joy's exasperations with her.

On the other hand, the mystery of the deaths is a constant thread that holds the book together. Most of the surprises -- Who is the reclusive writer of the vampire romances? Who is the real vampire? Who is Joy's 'true' soul mate? Will Roxy ever catch a clue? Who is the murderer? -- aren't that difficult to figure out. Most readers may miss the specifics that led who to do what but they'll have pegged the answers way before the end of the book.

But in spite of the draw backs, it is a fun read if you don't look for more than an evening of entertainment and some outrageous and outrageously funny sex scenes, and some laughs.

This is the first book I have read by Katie Macalister, and I was NOT impressed. Recently, I've been reading books in the vampire/fantasy/romance genre, and I enjoy the witty ones. This is a badly written book. The character Joy, apparently, loses most of her intelligence when she crosses the Atlantic, and becomes almost an entirely different character. I can see where the author was trying to go with her humor, but the execution was poor. If you've been reading books like "Undead and Unwed", I think you will be disappointed.
ALSO, as another reviewer remarked, the title has nothing to do with the plot of the book.
I might give Katie Macalister another try. Maybe this book is an exception. Several reviewers think highly of her books, but I would borrow the book. I'm not wasting any more money on this author.