My least favorite in the series but still worthwhile...

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	• Vamps and the City (Love at Stake, Book 2) Kerrelyn Sparks Avon, 2006 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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Fun but Flawed

Like so many others here, I adored HTMAMV....Roman and his company were awesome. Loved Shanna and the guards (especially Conner!) and I grabbed up the 2nd and 3rd books of the series so fast your head would spin. And there is much here in "Vamps In The City" to enjoy. The focus this time is Darcy, a four year turned vampire, who is starting a realtiy show on the Digital Vampire Network. She signs Austin up to be on the show, knowing he is mortal, but not knowing that he is a spy for a group called Stake Out. Stake Out's aim is to kill all vampires. What is good? The entire reality show plotline. Roman's ex-harem are needing a new master and the winner of the reality show will get a million dollars AND this harem. These girls are pretty funny and very entertaining. I liked seeing what they would do within the series and outside of it. The glimpses at some character's from the first book were entertaining too. Darcy's story of her turning was interesting and some talked about (but not so much in first hand) vampire killing was introduced as well. What was not so good? The whole romance between Darcy and Austin was weak. The supporting characters were more entertaining than either of our two leads. Darcy was ok, but she lost a lot of points with me (and apparently some other reviewers) because she was so miserable being a vampire. Here life really wasn't bad enough to support her feelings on this. The pluses sure seemed to outweigh the negatives. Austin was even worse. Austin immediately got off on the wrong foot, by snapping up tons of pictures of Darcy's legs, butt, and chest before he even knew who she was. It was weird, and not in a good way. He is so grossed out by her being a vampire, he did everything but lose his lunch over it. In a romance story you expect there to be sex scenes, but this seemed to be the only thing between Austin and Darcy. I never felt anything stronger develop. If I had to make bets, I would see this fairy tale romance fizzling right out once the relationship gets past the honeymoon stage.
Still worth the read and I still can't wait to read more from this series. Hopefully this was just a bump in the road.

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Great Series!

I love this series! The books have great humor and romance. It is not chalk full of racy sex scenes but the actual romance is wonderful! I can't wait for the next book to be released!

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Still Funny

Most of the fun characters from the first novel in the series are back. This story is about Austin Erikson from the Stake Out team and Darcy (one of Roman's ex-harem female vamps). Austin is sent to DVN to spy on the vamps in hopes of locating Shanna, the head of Stake-Out's daughter. He spies on Darcy and at first site falls in love. But he can't quite figure out if she's a vamp or human. So the fun begins.

This was a very quick but great read. The book was fun with lost of humor. The Malcontents have less of a role in this book. We get updated with Roman and Shanna. What disappointed me was that Darcy wasn't comfortable with being a vamp. She hated it and that turned me off. I was even more turned off that (SPOILER AHEAD) Roman was able to turn her back to human. Overall it's still a pretty good read and yes, it's worth the read

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My least favorite in the series but still worthwhile...

Although I liked this one the least in the series, it is still worth reading if you've read the first book. I would not recommend starting the series with this one.

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Who says a vamp can't have it all?

Darcy Newhart thought it was a stroke of genius ? the first?ever reality TV show where mortals vie with vampires for the title of The Sexiest Man on Earth. As the show's director, Darcy's career would be on track again. And she can finally have a life apart from the vampire harem. Okay, so she's still technically dead, but two out of three's not bad. Now she just has to make sure that a mortal doesn't win. If only she wasn't so distracted by a super?sexy and live contestant named Austin...

But Darcy doesn't know the worst of it. Austin Erickson is actually a vampire slayer! And he's got his eye on the show's leggy blond director. Only problem is, he's never wanted any woman ? living or dead ? as badly. But if he wins her heart, will he lose his soul? And if it means an eternity of hot, passionate loving with Darcy, does that really matter anyway?

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