The Undead in My Bed

By: Jessica Sims, Molly Harper, Katie MacAlister

Narrated by: Leah Mallach, Abby Craden, Sophie Eastlake

Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

In "Shades of Gray" by Katie MacAlister, Noelle is a Guardian: a demon-wrangler, imp-banisher, and all-round secret protector of humans from the Otherworld. While working on the set of a ghost-busting reality show in a haunted castle, she meets a sexy vampire, and together they prevent a Master Demon from killing everyone in the castle.

In "Undead Sublet" by Molly Harper, executive chef Tess Maitland is banned from her five-star kitchen in Chicago to recover from "exhaustion". Choosing a random rental house in Half-Moon Hollow to spend time in, she's unaware that the house comes with a strange man. Even though Sam Masden's ex-wife has rented the house out from under him, the divorce settlement allows him access to it for another ninety days. With Tess unable to go anywhere else, and Sam unwilling, a war of epic proportions is declared - and romantic sparks and heavy pots fly.

Jessica Sims's "Out With a Fang" features Ruby Sommers, a lonely were-jaguar who signs up for a blind date through the paranormal dating agency Midnight Liaisons. When she arrives, she finds out that her date, a vampire, was the human she'd been in love with four years ago but was forced to dump.

©2012 Katie MacAlister, Molly Harper, and Jessica Sims (P)2012 Tantor

2 out of three stories not bad

As a series of short stories I loved 2 and 3 were great but #1 was not. I think it was the narrator. The story and voice didn't mesh. Not that either on was bad but, not together. #2 was so funny I laughed out loud. Love the story of revenge college style as adults. #3. Was sweet
I recommend this book for a good laugh

Fun read

As in all good books it follows the proper format of love, laughter, intrigue, friction and of course, happy endings. Great compilation.

second story is well worth it

The first story needs a little more development. It was hard to follow trying to put all of the pieces together while keeping up with the mystery.

Second story will make you laugh. you can't listen/read this story without laughing out loud. should be an independent story.

Third story was good for passing time. good first book, more of a dramatic romance than a rom com

Cherry picking

I really only liked the Molly Harper story. The five stars are for it and the narrator.

Three Very Different Stories

These were three very different stories and I appreciated that because it gave me a chance to get to know a little about each author and their style.

I definitely liked the Molly Harper story the best. It was intelligent and funny and hard to stop listening.

Katie McAlister’s story was interesting But I had a hard time getting into it and that may have been entirely because of the voice. In some ways the Betty Boop voice added humor but it also got irritating after a while.

The Jessica Sim’s story was very good. But little niggling things bug me about the characters and made what seemed to be a very intelligent character come across as lowbrow. I am thinking this was from a lack of care from the author and descriptions… Maybe this was a rush project? That ValJean was constantly referred to as a character from a musical? I just wanted to say surely an Educated… Self or not… Wouldknowis based on an epic novel.

Perfect Pairing

This book, by Molly Harper, was amazing! The book combined my love of cooking, paranormal, romance and snarky humor. I did not listen to the other two books in the collection.

Three entertaining and amusing vampire tales.

Funny and light-hearted short paranormal romance stories that are any easy listen - preferred M.H's and R.S.'s stories but they are all a simple sweet listen and, or but, they don't contain any 'hot and heavy' bits.

Worth a credit? Mmmmm, although I would prefer a bit more 'heat' to the stories, they were very enjoyable and entertaining, so it's a YES.

The Bad the Great and the Good

3 short stories
The first "Shades of Grey" is not good at all - story weak narration poor as well I doubt I will bother with any other Katie MacAllister books if that's the usual standard.

The second "Undead Sublet" by Molly Harper is a delight, though its best read if you are already familiar with the Half Moon Hollow series. Its a while since I last listened to a Half Moon Hollow book so it was great to revisit and encounter cameos from some of my favourite characters. Slightly strange not to have Amanda Ronconi narrating but Sophie Eastlake does a good job in her place. Worth getting the book just for this story alone

The final book "Out with a Fang" is a fairly decent story too - bit predictable but it held the interest, narration was fine as well
worth the time to listen

Two Good Stories

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I highly recommend the Molly Harper story, especially if you are familiar with the Half-Moon Hollow series. This is the story of Tess and Sam, who we met in the Christmas novella. Classic Molly Harper style-- funny, snarky, some trials the characters must work through. The practical jokes are great.
The Jessica Sims book is good. This is the first I've read and it was good enough that I'd consider more from this author. Nothing laugh out loud funny (like with Molly's books) but you can't have that every time. I liked the were-jaguar. I'm tired of all the were-wolves.
The Katie MacAlister book was bad. I was prepared for bad because I read some of the reviews. I don't know why I didn't skip it-- curiosity I guess. It's hard to figure out why Molly and Jessica would have a combined effort with this author and why on earth would they give her top billing! Skip it. Or, if you can't stop yourself, listen to it knowing you are going to hear some terrible dialogue. I had to laugh (that cringe/laugh) when hearing about Gray's "titanium" member.

Any additional comments?

To Ms. MacAlister: I hate to give a bad review without explaining why. You did not give back story or explanation of the world your characters live in. That's fine when writing a contemporary romance set in the real world. But you write paranormal. So you need to explain what the rules are for a "Guardian", "Dark One", and "Beloved" are in your world. We eventually figure most of it out (although Dark One is still a little vague). When you introduce a new type of being you need to explain their purpose and what they can/can't do. Also, your dialogue was too ridiculous. A couple of times you had Noel comment that Gray's language was strange. It was too silly. If you feel the need to have your character make fun of the language that may be a sign that you've taken it too far. I could get past the lack of backstory. I don't think I will ever get past the titanium penis.

Meh

Molly Harper is great as usual. I couldn’t get past the narrator on the 1st story to tell if it was any good or not and the 3rd one is boring. None of the narrators were very good