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Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
- Half-Moon Hollow, Book 1
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children's librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed $25 in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that's sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she's mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood.
Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She's forced to forgo her favorite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn't enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What's a nice undead girl to do?
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- Niall
- 11-10-12
Very enjoyable, light, humorous, vamp romance
I picked this book out more or less at random as something light to listen to. I've been having difficulty reading actual text and I've turned to audiobooks to "read" more. I am particularly glad I picked this one.
Jane is a librarian who suddenly discovers herself to be unemployed, gets drunk at a bar, gets shot (mistaken for a deer), and has the choice of being dead, or undead. A few days later she wakes up a vampire. She has a best friend who is almost as dotty as she is, and an overbearing mother. But now that she's undead she has her favourite (dead) relative to keep her company and a suave, attractive sire who she fancies something rotten, but he did turn her into a vampire. On top of that, someone seems to have it in for her, and she needs a new job.
At least she lives in a world which knows vampires exist. The setting is wonderfully cynical; just my kind of concept. The existance of vampires was revealed as part of a disability lawsuit. Each chapter begins with a quote from the "Guide for the Newly Undead," and the local vampire community holds meet-and-greet parties for newbie vampires, hosted by a vampire property agent (how could anyone tell the difference).
The narration on this one is good. Amanda Ronconi pulls off the accents, even an English one, nicely and it felt like she enjoyed reading the story even as I laughed my way through it.
I'll be putting the second in the series on my wishlist.
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- Tania
- 02-01-11
Highly derivative: Sookie Stackhouse with fangs
I bought this on the strength of the other reviews. In fairness, if I'd been in a coma for the last five years and never come across a Southern-virginal-beautiful-oddball-girl-with-supernatural-powers type heroine, then I would have been quite impressed by this book and its story of an alternative world ridden with supernatural beings. However, having worked my way through most of the True Blood books and dabbled in much of the rest of the genre, I have to say that this is a profoundly unimaginative rip off and basically more of the same - only Sookie has a different name and is a vampire, rather than telepathic. There are slightly more jokes, but nothing that laugh out loud so it can't, imho, even claim to be a satirical version of the same.
If you've run out of True Blood/Twilight/etc. etc. and are desperate for a new fix, this might be just up your street, but if you feel that the whole vampires coming out of the closet story line has been done to death, then I wouldn't recommend this title at all.
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- Joanne Kendall
- 13-04-10
Very funny modern twist on vampire tale
If you like Charlaine Harris then you will like this. Molly Harper writes with a funny, dry wit. Her tale of Jane Jameson's turning and life with her family, friends and boyfriend/sire is very engaging and had me laughing out loud while listening.
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- S. Lacey
- 17-04-16
Excellent
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I really loved this book. I just love Jane, she's so funny and so is her Great Aunt Jettie! I also loved Gabriel, Dick, Andrea, Jeb and Jolene! I enjoyed the story and Jane's initial adjustment to Vampire life although she still has to earn acceptance in the undead community. Poor Jane was the subject of a hate campaign in the story with some unknown targeting her to try and drive her out of the community or kill her.
She also has to deal with a nightmare family, well her dad's understanding and supportive, but her mum is high strung and very interfering, constantly trying to change Jane. Her sister is also scheming and always trying to put her down, not to mention being jealous that their Aunt Jettie left her house and everything in it to Jane when her sister is quite covetous of the house and the antiques within it.
I look forward to seeing how things go with her family as they have not handled news of her turning very well, well again her Dad is coping well and supportive of Jane but the rest of her living family is not dealing well with the news.
I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series!
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- Ms. N. Peters
- 11-07-19
Narration good, book not for me
To be honest this was not for me.
It's a very young adult/young teen fiction and the lead female is a nightmare. I'm sure she's not meant to be a role model but I really struggled to get behind her as a protagonist.
I fancied something light and something new so it ticked those boxes.
The voice narration is fine.
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- Marianna Rodgers
- 12-02-18
Not my cup of tea.... very ennoying if anything.
Not my cup of tea.... very ennoying if anything. Couldn't get through more than two chapters.. absolute torture
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- Anonymous User
- 04-06-23
Fluff piece
Fluffy book with some tired tropes. Didn’t enjoy the heroine being overly possessive with her friend and the internalised misogyny.
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- ELLIE
- 06-09-19
Nice girls don't have fangs
i did not finish listening the narrator was annoying the story was disinteresting and not funny what a waste of time and money
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- G.F.
- 18-09-23
Good take on a vampire story
This is an interesting way to look at a vampire story. Don't expect over powered vampires. It's part romance and part mundane with a dash of detectorist combined with, well, vampires! I enjoyed it but it didn't make me want to read the next book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-08-23
Disappointing vampire romp
Apparently becoming undead makes everyone around you act like hormonal teenagers. The heroine herself has two main characteristics: sass and liking books. Her complete unawareness of what's going on around her creates a lot of eyeroll moments.
The plot itself wasn't too bad, an okay crimish mystery, but unfortunately the main character has no interest in trying to figure out what's going on around her - she's too busy with romancing the various vampire studs around her, and otherwise engage in high school drama.
What made me stay with the book till the end was the narrator, who was quite good with a possible exception of a few of the male characters.
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