Dating the undead by Juliet Lyons is the first book in the v date series. Silver is on a date that turns bad and she bumps in to Logan on her way out of a party. The police ask for her help with dating vampires and finding out there secrets. Silver never expects to fall in love she usually breaking hearts. I highly recommend this book it has everything from romance, comedy, action and adventure. You can't put it down once you start. I highly recommend this book and can't wait for more by this author!!

Fun, fast read. Really liked the hero and heroine and enjoyed the banter between them. Definitely recommend.

Dating the Undead
by Juliet Lyons
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Ebook
Sensuality: HOT
3 Star

Juliet Lyons’ debut paranormal romance is a madcap adventure of biting humor, steamy chemistry, eclectic characters, and some over the top antics. A strong and personable heroine delights as she navigates her way through the treacherous waters of online dating. A steamy romance balances well with the intrigue and suspense though some plotlines fizzle out while others seem to take the longest route possible to resolution. Disappointment occurs when an obvious deux ex machina to resolve the conflict and force a happily ever after.

SUMMARY: One mind blowing kiss from a drop dead gorgeous vampire on New Year’s Eve convinces Silver Harris that she’s been dating the wrong species. She joins V-Date, a popular vampire dating service, and discovers a whole new world of pleasure. Logan Byrne doesn’t expect to see Silver after their shared kiss and is shocked to discover his next job involves her and V-Date. The site is being used by the police to spy on vampires and Logan is charged with shutting them down by any means necessary. As their feelings for each other grow, so does Logan’s reluctance to involve her in his dangerous mission. Silver refuses to give up on Logan and their relationship, but when old grudges and insane masters come a calling, Silver learns the true risks of dating the undead. (SOURCEBOOKS., MAY., 352 pp., $7.99)

Reviewed By: Tori Benson
Publisher: Sourcebook
Published: May 2017

When Silver Harris kisses sexy Irish vampire Logan Byrne on New Year's Eve, she knows other humans just won't suffice. Convinced she'll never see him again, she joins the uber-popular vampire dating site, V-Date.com.

What Silver doesn't know is that the site is more dangerous than she could ever imagined, and soon she's in over her head. When Logan returns, sparks fly and attraction sizzles, but they'll have to escape some very real demons if they have any chance of lasting forever.

Silver gets kicked out of a New Year’s Eve party when she dumps a drink on the woman she catches kissing her date – and kicks her date in the balls. Apparently that doesn’t make for a good party. Out of the street she meets a beautiful man who ends up walking her home. They get along great and end up sharing a midnight kiss to ring in the new year. She knows he’s a vampire but she doesn’t care, it was the best kiss of her life. She especially liked it when he bit her.

Silver tells her step-sister Jess about it the next day and Jess tells her about V-Date, an online dating site where you can date vampires. Silver joins the site hoping that the sexy vampire she kissed will be part of it. She doesn’t know how to contact him as he didn’t even give her his name. Silver starts to set up dates with vampires but finds herself incredibly bored. Yes, the vamps are hot but she’s not connecting with any of them.

Meanwhile Logan, the vampire that Silver kissed, is directed by his “boss” to track down women who are part of V-Date. Apparently the police are using the women on the site to get information about vampires as they’re such a mystery. Logan is to track the women and then put a glamour on them so they will have no interest in vampires ever again. Of course the first person he’s to glamour is Silver but he can’t bring himself to do it as that means she’ll have no interest in him. He knows he’s ignoring his boss which can have repercussions but he’s so into Silver he doesn’t care.

Silver is approached by the police to get info about vampires and they promise to open up her mother’s case again. Her mother disappeared when Silver was 9 years old and they never found out what happened to her. With Silver working with the police and Logan ignoring his bosses wishes things get tense. That doesn’t stop the couple from falling in love. Of course his old sire returns to town and is determined to get Logan back no matter what the cost.

When I read the blurb for Dating the Undead it sounded like a fun book and I’m happy to say, it was! Silver had a great sense of humor and was pretty snarky. Both Silver and Logan could laugh at themselves and I loved that about them. They worked together really well and I thought the author did a great job writing their romance. She wrote Logan so that he was a guy who had pretty much maintained his humanity and that’s what made him so appealing to me.

I did have a couple of issues with the book. One was the fact that Logan’s boss was written as this scary “ancient” that you never crossed. When he was crossed however, nothing happened. Not that I wanted him to harm Logan but it was a bit anti-climactic. The other thing was Logan’s old sire. She was determined to get Logan back or harm him in some way for not being the murderer she wanted him to be. I understand why she was written into the book as the villain but she was so over the top it didn’t fit in with the book, imho.

Despite those issues I liked the story a lot. I got a little burned out on vampire romances a while back so I haven’t read many lately. Dating the Undead was a good book to read to jump back into the genre.

Rating: 3.75/4 out of 5

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New Year's Eve is not going according to plan for Silver Harris when she catches her date kissing someone else. One drink in the face and kick in the nuts later Silver is being escorted out where she meets the incredibly handsome and irresistible Logan Byrne vampire, one kiss from Logan and Silver knows he's ruined her and human men are just not going to cut it anymore.
Assuming she'll never see him again Silver joins V-Date.com a dating site for vampires but she soon discovers what she felt with Logan was less to do with the fact that he's a vampire and more to do with the man himself.
Logan returns and things pick up where they left off but the path of true love never runs smooth especially when one half of the relationship is 190 years old and has a vengeful ex-sire on his tail.
This is an enjoyable read both Logan and Silver are good characters with some funny dialogue between them and I really wanted things to work out.
Also I liked that the ancients are different, demon like and next to impossible to destroy and certainly not the same as those they create.
So what didn't work for me?
I felt at times it dragged now this could be because I didn't particularly feel the police part worked that well and the only real reason I can think it's there is to introduce Vincent ready for his book 'Romancing the Undead' which is next.
Also the epilogue, I'm a huge fan of epilogues but it ended quite abruptly, I know, I know when is a good time to end but I would have liked a bit more.
So all things considered this is a good entertaining read and while we know how it's going to end the fact that we know doesn't distract from the story itself.

I voluntarily read a review copy kindly provided by NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Casablanca.

While I enjoyed the interactions between Silver and Logan, the underlying plot and the dating site aspect/police didn't really work and the whole thing started to drag after they got together. Still a solid 3 stars.

Did not finish. I just couldn't connect with this book. I tried numerous times to get into it but just couldn't. The writing was fine, the characters were OK, I just couldn't stay with it. Thank you for allowing me to preview it nonetheless.

A fun fast paced vampire romance with a twist. I'm not normally a fan of Shape Shiffter and vampire type books, but because this one read more like a typical contemporary romance, it totally worked for me. Logan was such a wonderful character and Silver with her witticism and forth rightness made for a charming pair. I didn't get bored even once while reading Dating the Undead, the first v-date.com book by Juliet Lyons. I am going to look for more books by this author because if it's anything like this book I know that I will love it. I do wonder why Logan wasn't confident in his relationship with his boss and protector. Seems to me had they been together for as long as they have he shouldn't have been so worried about the consequences for the assignment, that aspect just didn't work for me. I also hope that Ms. Lyons finds a way for Vampire / human couples can have babies somehow in upcoming books, I like that concept too much not to hope for it. That's my only issue aside from wanting a better tight knit family type community for the vampires in this series being as they've probably had to look out for each other often for hundreds of years, the idea that they wouldn't have banded together rings false, maybe that will progress in other stories in the series with a different set of characters. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for a honest review.

Dumped by her date and thrown out of a New Year’s Eve party, Silver Harris is feeling down on herself. Then she meets a charming vampire on the way home and they share a memorable New Year’s kiss. But Silver doesn’t get his name, much less a phone number. So, hoping to find him again, she signs up with the vampire dating site V-Date.com.

The London police have a plan to use the site to gather intel on vampires, who while out to the public are still not big on sharing, and they plan to recruit Silver to spy for them. But the vampires are on to the plan and Logan Byrne is sent to glamour the informant before she can pass on any details. Of course, the spy turns out to be the woman he kissed on New Year’s Eve and hasn’t been able to get out of his head.

Dating the Undead is not the first instance of a supernatural dating service I’ve ever read about, but it certainly used it in an interesting way. That basically sums up how I felt about the vampires too. Their powers are more or less what you’d expect, but there’s just enough newness in the mythos, mostly involving how they’re turned, to keep it feeling fresh.

I really enjoyed Logan and Silver’s whirlwind romance. Her quirky personality and her oddball family make the story lots of fun until all the serious vampire business intrudes. Yeah, I totally saw that part coming. What I didn’t predict was how their HEA would come about – I pretty much had it backwards.

I did have a few issues with the story though. The goal of the police investigation isn’t really clear and Silver’s role sounds more like an undercover cop than a civilian informant. And the backstory involving Silver’s mother didn’t quite work for me.

But overall I thought Dating the Undead was a fun way to get a quick PNR fix. (I have sudden vampire cravings sometimes. Don’t you?) I’d certainly be willing to read more in the series.

Who would’ve thought that vampire romance has enough in it still to make a comeback.
‘Twilight saga’ has got nothing on this original story, and the author even manages to sneak in a few references to this famous vampire saga in the most humorous of ways.

‘I’m guessing she’s human. I blame that Stephanie Meyer woman for all these ridiculous human-vampire love stories that are playing out all over the world.’

It doesn’t happen often, but I fell in love with both main characters right from their first encounter. Logan was exactly what an experienced, 200-year-old vampire should be like: cocky, yet romantic, arrogant, yet charming. With his green eyes, sexy tousled hair, and Irish accent, he was simply the epitome of deliciousness.
Silver (yeap, that’s her name, fitting, huh?) was a no-bullshit kind of gal, painful realist, and the last person you would have pegged for being a romantic. Her attitude and character are the reasons for most of the humour in this book. Her constant teasing and brutal honesty, even in the most inappropriate of situations, had me laughing out loud.
I recommend it to anyone who, just like me, has got a craving for a good vampire romance once in a while, but is struggling to find a story with the right balance between the romantic and the paranormal. Well, ‘Dating the Undead’ has got plenty of sexy and thrilling, as well as action and suspense.
I cannot wait to read the next book in the ‘V-Date.Com’, after the introduction Vincent got into the series.

Dating the Undead,  Juliet Lyons

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre:  Romance, Sci-fi and Fantasy

First book in a new series and writing this I’m still undecided exactly how I feel. I didn’t Not like it but I wasn’t grabbed by it either...
The premise is good, sounded fun, a vampire dating site. No risk of relationships there you’d think, not with the potential age differences ;-) That’s just what Silver is looking for, sex and spice without the other guy wanting a HEA for them.

Well, I liked Silver – and then there were parts of her I didn’t. When it comes to her mum and how she died she feels a bit shallow almost, especially at the end when she learns more. “Oh, that’s how she died. OK then, what shall we do now?” that’s sort of how her reaction feels to me. Given all her former questions it just felt underwhelming somehow.  
She gets on with her dad but isn’t really very nice to her step-mum, and I didn’t know why except that she’s acting like a teen and she’s not, she’s an adult. I think this shallowness about her is what I didn’t like.
I did like her independence and confidence, but she was just that bit too unfeeling. She has a great kiss with Logan, so joins V Date in search of more, and she’s happy to let a total stranger, one who could kill her easily, bite her.
The police interaction was just weird, that’s all I can say about that!

Logan, a great guy, loyal to his vampire lord/boss and yet the whole Anastasia saga make him look weak and feeble to me.
Somehow after all those years vampires have been around, most of them hidden from humans, you’d think they’d come up with a way round these rules that constrain them, even when keeping them risks so much.
Then that ending, rounds off the story neatly but too slick for me, a bit too convenient...I’m not a quick fix girl, I like solutions to come from things we know, to be worked hard for.

It sounds like there’s a lot I didn’t like here and that’s not true, it was a fun read, some good humour, and its a well written story, with potential for more. I did like the sound of Cop Vincent, subject of the next book.

Maybe its just first-book-in-series syndrome, where it has such a lot to achieve, setting out story for this book and future ones and introducing different characters. Its a hard ask for any book, and maybe for ones like this that also have a humorous side its more difficult.

Its was an ok read for me, I didn’t not like it, and bits made me smile, but its not one I’d read again. If you want a fun and light supernatural read with a gentle HEA this is for you. I just need a bit more depth and angst.

Stars: Three, an ok read, fun in parts but a bit light for me.

ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers

"Get back here, vampire. I felt you up; now you feel me up. That's how it works in the twenty-first century. This isn't Jane Austen. I'm not bloody Elizabeth Bennet."

Honestly, I don't know how anyone can look at the concept for this book and not want to read it. Obviously that doesn't guarantee that your expectations will live up to the premise but in the case of DATING THE UNDEAD, it did. And in such unexpected ways.

"Silver has a date with a vampire."
"Well, I'd say knock 'em dead, kiddo, but in this case he's dead already."

When you throw the words BRIDGET JONES around you kind of anticipate the story going one way. And this definitely didn't. But it was actually better. Lyons has created a seriously sassy and snarky delight in our MC Silver without half the hangups that Bridget Jones had. And definitely created the perfect, undead, match for her with Logan. He's basically what Angel, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, might've been like if Whedon had made him less of a tortured emo child and more.. pervy.

"A man would have to be dead from the feet up not to find your attractive, Silver."
"Like you, you mean?"
"You're never going to quit the dead jibes are you?"
"Probably not."

I don't want to reveal too much because half the fun is watching how it all shakes out but take everything you know about vampires and forget it. We have a fresh take on the blood sucking and occasionally sparkly mythology. Throw in a girl with no interest in love who ends up on V-Date -- a vampire hook up site -- after a New Years Eve encounter with a hot Irish fanger, a mystery surrounding a missing mother, some seriously sexy escapades, total hilarity, and a pile of TWILIGHT jokes (well, okay, like two, but they were good ones!), and you get DATING THE UNDEAD.

"It's funny. I never had you pegged for the needy type."
"Needy? I think I prefer brooding and deep."
"There's nothing brooding and deep about this conversation, Mr. Needy. It's got insecurity written all over it. It's a good thing you're a decent shag or I might jump ship."

I'm so glad this is going to be a series of interconnected books because while I love that this story wrapped up without a cliffhanger, I want more of this world. And Lyons has perfectly set us up for another immortal hunk to take the stage.

4 "bend over and stop talking" stars

I really wanted to like this and the premise is great BUT...the execution was extremely lacking. I really didn't like the vampire to human aspect or how it dragged on and then wrapped up way too fast.

Oh my, I really thought my e-reader would start smoking... Juliet Lyons is definitely on a roll here. We start with Silver being thrown out of a party, after molesting her date. She meets Logan on the doorstep when she is leaving the building. From their first meeting, sparks are flying between sassy Silver and luscious Logan. And the banter is hilarious, but also keep you blushing sometimes. Being almost two hundred years old seems to relieve you from any moral standards.

Since Silver and Logan only meet during New Year's Eve, they don't know each other. And after that evening they go each separate ways. However, Silver was aware that Logan was a vampire. Since it is already common knowledge that vampires exist, Silver's colleague show her a site where she can find a date with vampires. So, Silver signs up for the V-dating site in order to find herself a steamy vampire.

But then Silver gets recruited to spy on vampires. And Logan gets an assignment to eliminate the spies who are trying to get information on vampires. So they meet again. But both have secrets and those secrets can become very dangerous. Can they trust each other or is it just (very) physical attraction? When Silver is being attacked: is it because of her spying? Or are there other motives?

I guess you will just have to find out for yourself. The story keeps twisting and turning right up until the last page. So very well done. Four out of five stars from me and I will be looking forward to part two of the Dating Service: Romancing the Undead.