Between a Vamp and a Hard Place

De: Jessica Sims

Narrado por: Elizabeth Hart

Lindsey Hughes loves antiques and couldn't be happier to make a living in the estate sale business. But when her assistant accidentally buys an entire estate without her approval, Lindsey is forced to clean up the mess herself. When she travels to the newly purchased, age-old house in Venice, Italy, she soon discovers more than she bargained for.

Vampire Rand FitzWulf has been in his coffin for 600 years. But now that he's awake, he's ravenous, and there's a delicious-smelling woman with a rare blood type in his basement. Luckily Lindsey has more to offer than blood: She agrees to travel throughout Europe with Rand to help him get revenge on the one who turned him. But as the unlikely pair grows closer, will the billionaire vampire be overtaken by his thirst for blood or his thirst for love?

©2016 Jessica Sims (P)2015 Tantor

Not connected to Midnight Liaisons series

At best, this takes place in the same fantasy world as the Midnight Liaison series.
(Based on the ending, I’m not sure I even believe that) However, none of the previous MCs appear here. Ditto for the Midnight Liaison dating agency or shapeshifters or any creatures other than vampires. There’s even a new narrator.

What remains is the comedy and the formula romantic couple: a damsel and white knight supernatural. Rand is a vampire only recently reawakened after 600 years. Like the last book, the fish out of water wonder of seeing the modern day world is one of the most interesting things about this story,
I also really liked that Lindsey’s best friend features prominently. It was interesting and fun enough to forgive that Lindsay was a ditz.

another Twilight romance

I like the other books in this series, but this one bombed for me. Lindsey acted like a love-sick school girl with her brain so foggy from lust that she missed the most obvious things, like demanding that Rand only use her for food. Really?? It just went downhill from there, with dumb decisions and "oh, woe is me". I like the stories where there's a lot less angst on the part of the human.
I did like the performance much better than the earlier books, with that Texas drawl and occasional shrieks in a sentence. Hart has a great sense of timing and conversational cadence, combined with her beautiful voice that is a pleasure to hear.

Roller coaster of emotions and steamy

Good story but a little slow to start but needed that story setup. I think it’s very different then the past book series. This could be a standalone I felt.

Not as enjoyable as Midnight Liaisons series.

I didn't enjoy this book nearly as much as the Midnight Liaisons series, but it wasn't a bad book. While it was interesting enough, it didn't pull me in all the way. Where the Midnight Liaisons series was funny with an engaging story line, this one didn't quite measure up. I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading this book, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it either. The book features a HEA ending and no cliffhanger.

What Did I Just Listen To?

This was the last book in the series and by far the worst. The writing was juvenile at best. It was like the heroine had never read or heard anything about vampires. Her ignorance just got to be quite annoying after a while. And the fact that she would leave her friend to go running off with a vampire when she and said friend are on a tight deadline...