Stake Sandwich

The Shop Series, Book 1

By: Annalee Adams

Narrated by: Honey St. Dennis

Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Layla must make a choice between saving the one she loves or saving humanity.

Imagine the morning sunrise, the soft dew cascading over another body, entangling itself in the rotting corpse. Another victim drained of blood. Another family grieving today. Since Strauss came to town, the bodies keep piling up.

For Layla Stone, hunting vampires isn’t just a hobby, it’s her birth right. As part of an intricate society of hunters, Layla lives for fighting the dead. That is, until she meets Christian, her sexy savior, and a vampire with a conscience. Through love and lust, Layla Stone meets her match. But by destroying the city’s major threat, she will also kill her lover. Can she do this? Will she?

Find out in Stake Sandwich, book one of the Shop Series.

©2022 Annalee Adams (P)2022 Annalee Adams

Garbage...

Hard to listen to. Both the dialogue and voice over talent were cringe worthy... would absolutely not recommend it.

They should have staked this book

This book feels like an inexperienced teen's twist on a certain teenage vampire slayer. That could work, but the author has basically thrown in every trope she could find, as well as being unable to keep anything straight. It's a short story that was obviously written over a long period of time, then never reviewed or edited for consistency. If you know the tropes of bad fiction and Wattpad, you won't need this SPOILER warning.

The protagonist is 17 and attending college; it's possible, it is California, but that little factoid is dropped and never followed up.

The protagonist's family moved from the UK to Los Angeles to battle vampires while the protagonist was a child. At different points in the story, the house where they live changes from a basic suburban home to a near mansion that's hundreds of years old--and where the protagonist's family has lived all that time--and even has a stable.

Slayers are born genetically superior, and normally only marry other slayers to continue the slayer line. There are only five slayer families in LA, so the inbreeding would make ancient Egyptian pharaohs envious.

There is a non-slayer friend who's totally goth--it is LA--but his name is Jim Bob.

Underage protagonist regularly goes clubbing with Jim Bob and other friends who don't know about the slaying.

A century-old vampire with a soul (well, the book calls it his humanity) falls in love with the underage, generations younger protagonist. But, he's super hot, and pedophilia and age of consent be damned, the protagonist wants him to be her boyfriend.

Time is mentioned in 24-hour clock time. Other Britishisms pop up, but there was so much worse that I didn't bother keeping track of them.

The slayer family which has trained for generations, somehow manages to get innocents killed by a severe inability to plan a team fight, and nearly dies themselves in this mess.

I got this on sale. I almost stopped 30 minutes in, but I hate listened just to see how bad it was going to get. It got that bad.

I wanted to give the narrator two stars, because at least she spoke clearly, enunciating well, but her accents were terrible, and she sounds like a forty-year old, not a teenage girl.

Don't waste your money.