How to Stop a Vampire War in Six Easy Steps

Vampire Innocent, Book 11

By: Matthew S. Cox

Narrated by: Marissa Parness

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

Nothing has complicated Sarah Wright’s life as much as losing it.

Discovering vampires and other supernatural creatures are real took the sting out of being murdered by her ex-boyfriend. She’s enjoying her new reality, even if taking a knife to the heart was the sanest thing to happen to her since.

Not quite a year into being an immortal, Sarah’s embraced the supernatural world hidden beneath the veneer of modern society. Vampirism is crazy fun as long as no one’s trying to kill her (again). She’s doing her best to keep her head down and help her kid sister sell Girl Scout cookies, but it’s not quite as easy to stay off the radar after becoming an official member of vampire society.

A random attempt on her unlife proves old grudges haven’t been forgotten. Somehow, follows rules girl has made enemies of the immortal kind.

Aurelie’s decree of protection obligates her to respond, all but guaranteeing a city-wide war among the elders. Worse, the Wright family will be at ground zero…unless Sarah can find a way to stop it.

©2020 Matthew S. Cox (P)2022 Matthew S. Cox

Renewed fun with the non-Wright friends

The fun in this book represents a bit of unexplored mini-quest possibility. There is room for more of this sort of adventure in this series.

I just read a review that is a long drawn out complaint about long drawn out explanations and tangents in this book. I can't help but feel it's a bit hypocritical to explain spoilers and so-o much detail while only really saying that they don't want to hear a repeat of previous mentioned details. Considering Matthew S. Cox has his own style of writing and loads lots of reasonable emotions, humor, and messed up mundane indoctrination in his written expressions, the repetition of details is just the appropriate level of mental development for the character, since she hasn't even hit one year as a vampire, combined with new reader catch-up. I don't consider it excessive or noticeably annoying and I've read/listened to the book at least four or five times (I lost track)?

The only thing that distinctly keeps me from rating the books in this series five stars is the unreasonable assumption that sixteen+ year old sex is perfectly acceptable as long as modern health/safety and birth control methodologies are employed. Some people might think that way, but their ignorance is not a passable excuse for portraying it as a reasonable attitude in general when many readers are being considered.

One of the best parts of this book is not mentioned in the summary nor in the other unhelpful review. That is the reunion of Cody and Ben with Sara and their new mini adventure. No spoiler details, but there really should be a hint at such fun to inform careful listeners that there is more to the story than Sara's growing up angst. Enjoy!

Its like someone w/ Alzheimers wrote this series.

I can't do it anymore. I skipped 3 books out of the series because I had a hunch I could and wouldn't miss much, and to my non-surprise, I didn't. I knew I could, because of the author's INCREDIBLY annoying habit of rehashing subjects he already explained in full detail.

Example: He keeps going over and over and over

-How guilty Sarah(The M.C.) feels about coming back home and possibly endangering her family, then in the next breath explains all the ways it is fine, how better it made her family work as a unit, and how great it is now that she is a vampire.
-How guilty Sarah feels about cheating her boyfriend(Hunter) out of a proper girlfriend he can grow old w/. Then explains why she won't give him up, and why she is okay with it.
-How it sucks that Hunter is broke and even though she can help she feels wrong to do it. And how guilty she feels that she comes from a family with the means to pay its own bills. SMH, Then in the next sentence, says she can't be blamed for his circumstances and that she doesn't want to do anything till he asks for help, which she knows he won't do.
-How she feels about being a vampire... over and over and over, and over, and over. How she and her new ability is 'weak sauce' in one sentence, then Big Mad Powerful, the next chapter! (This train is NEVER late. OMG!!!)
-How needless School is to her future and how she is only going for her parents sake. Oh she only repeats that diatribe EVERYTIME she is about to leave for school, which is about 12 times PER BOOK! ( We are 11 books deep and this is Still on repeat!!!!!!)
-Continuously repeats who each character is and their history as if we completely forgot who they were, from 1 chapter before. And as if we need to know over and over and over again that this one person is your BFF and you grew up together and your differences makes it kind of weird that you are friends. Over and over and over again... EVery TIME.
-Continously repeats her origin story. OVER AND OVER and OVER.
-Continously repeats how her body works and how other vampire power work, as IF WE CAN'T KEEP UP! I mean she only mentioned it 2 sentences AGO!!!
-Continously questions if she would prefer her old human life back or her vampire one. Then always choose her vampire one, Jussstttttttt to forget she ask herself this question 3 chapters later and begins to weigh the pros and cons AGAIN!!!!

O-M-*-G!!!!!!

These subjects go on and on and on, on Constant REPEAT in EVERYBOOK! EVERY-BOOK... E-V-E-R-Y B-O-O-K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then there are the tangents. You would find yourself in a serious situation, ppl are moments away from death, and then we go off into these A-D-D tangents about some 80's movie reference or flashback of a 'funny' situation or some random NONSENSE that has nothing to do w/ the current situation and that take you completely out of the 'zone'. It ruins immersion and is a complete d*ck punch, every time.

You feel like screaming, "Would you bleeping FOCUS already!" "STAY ON POINT, PLEASE!!!!"... SMH

Whatever I'm done.

My suggestion... This writing style Destroys this book/series. The new voice Actress, does a horrible job when it comes to many characters. ESPECIALLY the mother! OMG that characters is Soooooooooooo BAD!!!! PaiNFuL to listen to.

Can't... I just Can'T do it anymore.

Honestly... NO LIE, if you were to combine all the information that actually 'MOVES the story forward', it would only take up 3 to 5 chapters, MAX! 5 out of sometimes 28 to 38 chapters!!!! Only 5(Max) of them actually is new info and progresses the story.

The rest is rando ramblings, and rehashed info on REPEAT!!!! And this goes for EVERY BOOK in this series after the first one. EVERY-BOOK!!!! EVVVVEERRRRRRYYYY BOOK!!!!!!!

I can't TAKE it anymore!!!!! Im going to need a padded room!!!!


SKIP THIS ONE... FOR YOUR HEALTH...

I want ALL my credits BACK!!!!