Thoroughly enjoyed this story. Fun and engaging characters. Would read more by thhis author.

After catching her boyfriend with another girl, Silver has had it with men. Then she meets sexy vampire Logan who sweeps her off her feet literally. Logan's Irish brogue and sparkling green eyes are mesmerizing and the chemistry between them is combustible. But danger from Logan's past catches up with them and changes everything. Great romance!

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

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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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.

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.

"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

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.

Silver Harris is a shopgirl with a yen for a vampire that gave her a New Year’s Eve kiss. She goes on the dating site for vampire-human dating hoping she can get the same tingles or even find that hot vampire. The police find her, enlist her to spy on the vampires on the site, and make her an offer she can’t refuse. Meanwhile Logan Byrne is sent to glamour her so she doesn’t remember anything about vampires. But he can’t bring himself to glamour the woman he is falling for. Silver and Logan have combustible chemistry together and embark on a torrid love affair that could mean the end of both of them.
Oh Goody! Here we have a Paranormal Romance chock full of steamy sex and torrid action all wrapped up in a terrific story line, relatable characters, evil villainous vampires and a few loveable ones (but don’t tell them that, they get miffed). These vampires don’t need blood to survive but like a bite, they can’t fly but can do giant leaps, and they are all gorgeous. I thoroughly enjoyed this well written introduction to a new series. I look forward to the next, Romancing The Undead, book #2, about Vincent a vampire we met in this book.