The Vampire's Fake Fiancée by Kristen PainterMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This was a very difficult book to read. The lead male character, the vampire Sebastian (and brother to Hugh - the lead in book one in this series), is just plain unlikable in almost every way. Somewhere around the 60 to 75% mark I just wanted to close the book and not continue, but I did, since this is something like the . . . um .. . 11th book by this author I've read. And I'd been able to complete all the other ones. So . . . I completed this one.
Just to remind myself later: Sebastian's wife of four hundred plus years has returned (after an absence of, roughly, four hundred years). Long story short: Sebastian’s grandmother dated a vampire in 1666 – plague breaks out, to save her family, she allowed herself to be turned, then she ‘turned’ her grandsons, who, in turn, attempted to turn their wives (well, two of the three brothers had wives at the time, the third did not). One of the wives died in the process – that’s Hugh’s former wife. Other found vampire life to be freeing and wandered off to ‘find herself’ for the last 400 years. But, as already noted, she’s back now. Sebastian has been pinning away for his wife, but her actions/reactions/comments when she returns annoy him to the point of saying that no, she can’t just slide back into his life as his wife – in fact, he already has a fiancée sooo… He doesn’t, but, meh.
Enter into the story one Tessa Blythe – who everyone, it seems, calls super plain and boring. She’s a librarian with a cat. In a crappy job (mostly because of her crappy boss). Her sister, who is a deputy in Nocturne Falls, finally talks her into moving to Nocturne Falls since there’s a great librarian job open there. So she does it – quits her job, moves . . . before actually having that other job.
During the interview a man rushes in – Sebastian – without even paying attention to the fact that anyone other than Hugh is in the room, he rants about his wife then said he needed a fake fiancée. Tessa sister is, for whatever reason, in the room with Tessa (this is kind of mind-boggling, why the fuck is the sister in there? Seriously? Is it normal for someone to have their sister join her on a job interview?) and immediately says that her sister, Tessa, could be the fake fiancée. She, Tessa, just sits there in shock. Sebastian, for his part, takes one look at Tessa, and calls her a plain mouse. And that she wouldn’t do.
One thing leads to another and the complete jackass Sebastian ends up with his fake fiancée. Throughout the story, Sebastian attempts to mold Tessa into someone else (clothing, hair, jewelry, fencing), though Tessa does, at times, stand up for herself.
The wife and the extended family meet, have dinner, stuff happens, (view spoiler).
Rating: 2.25
February 16 2018
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