Flirting with Fangs

I couldn't finish this book. It was just too overdramatic, and I kept laughing during parts where I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be taking it seriously. Or at least finding it sexy. The language used during the sex scenes made me laugh out loud. It didn't work for me at all. Based on the reviews I saw on Goodreads, this is obviously an issue with me rather than the book. Just personal preference.

Bailey was an author and for the third year in a row she was invited to the New England Romance Writers in Boston Nicole was Bailey’s best friend and agent. Bailey and her husband Richard broke up and Bailey was having trouble with writer’s block. For six years Bailey and Nicole had worked perfectly together.Bailey and Nicole were a team and believed in each other. Bailey had caught Richard with an eighteen year old candy stripper. Richard was a doctor and they had only been married three years and he had moved out six months ago. Bailey was still very depressed. Somehow Torin the dark warrior hero who was also a vampire from her romance series was in Bailey’s hotel room. After having sex several times that night Bailey was much more relaxed but then Nicole showed up to tell Bailey she had to write one hundred and fifty well written pages of her new novel by that Friday or the publishing company was dropping Bailey and her series. Torin and Mallory were able to write a lot of good pages of said book together But the next day after Bailey had sent Nicole the pages all the parts mentioning Torin had disappeared and Nicole was in a rage. Bailey could not understand it.
This was a very good story and I really liked it. It got a little crazy toward the end but I still enjoyed it. I loved how Torin swore not to drink human blood until he found his one true love. I didn’t like how Nicole made it look like Torin had slept with her and bit her that was very selfish of Nicole and she only cared Bailey write not how hurt she would be. That’s not a best friend. Nicole knew how unhappy Bailey had already been. I also liked how Richard had prevented Bailey from being killed at the ball. All and all a good read and I enjoyed. I loved the characters and the ins and outs of the story and I recommend.

This book is like Buridda, a Ligurian fish dish whose smell I find disgusting, but that, once tasted, reveals to have a wonderful and exciting flavor .
This is to say that in this book there is everything I usually don't like the genre Romance-Urban fantasy, but the book is beautiful, I have enjoyed it from top to bottom, I laugh until I cry, and I wish I had more. This is because Pierson, bringing characters and circumstances to excess, has created a perfect parody.
A book of fun, especially for someone who has always made a mockery of the genre: in this Pierson left us all back, with great style. I thank
The Wild Rose Press and Netgalley for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

“I love you, Torin Kane. I will love you for all eternity, and I want nothing more than to have a chance to prove it to you, by your side, night after glorious night.” – Bailey Hamilton

And, it's finally here!!! So many days without a review, and I finally found the time to sit down and get back to work!

And what better way to do it than with a book I've been dying to write about!

Bailey Hamilton is in a terrible spot - both emotionally and career-wise. Not only has her husband dumped her, damaging her self-esteem as a woman greatly, but she also can't seem to get out of her writer's block to finish her new book. As a result, Torin Kane, her main character, is bound to wait a looong time until he's called forth to woo all the lady-readers - and female co-stars his writer decides to pair him up with. Unless something drastic happens - something that will bring writer and character closer than ever...

Let me get this straight: there's no way you're either a writer or a reader, and haven't wished, at least once in your life, that a fictional character was real. So there's no way I wouldn't like this particular story. I mean, come on, writer creates the perfect male specimen on page, and then gets to meet him personally? I would be so psyched!

Not to mention Bailey and Torin were adorable. A perfect little combo, full of hotness and humor - and insecurities. Damn, they were both so insecure! It was like watching a couple constantly cheering each other on. It would have been annoying if it wasn't for the craaaaazy chemistry between those two.

The book had many things to offer, though apart from the romance. It had humor, and action - both of them dark, by the way, yet sprinkled with pink glitter on top of all the dark stuff. How the heck did Pierson manage to do it, I have no idea. But she did it in a completely functional way and that's saying something!

The characters were all very interesting, too. No, I'm not talking about the main ones only. There were about a handful of secondary characters who were heaps fun and amazing in their own way, and they ended up pulling their own weight in the end, no matter how they initially started up, and on which side.

I dare say Peg Pierson had me pleasantly surprised, and thoroughly satisfied!

***I was given an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinion stated in this review is solely mine, and no compensation was given or taken to alter it.***