’**’Delightful, wicked fun’’** - Promised the book’s cover......I was not only deceived by this misleading statement, but nearly 5 hours of my life time was RUINED in parts....The title of the book did ring a bell that I’ve come across a series of novels by the same author, with similar titles such as Undead and Unapreciated, Undead and Unwed etc. though I’ve never read them. I didn’t have even the faintest idea that this book in question, is actually a sequel to ’**Undead and Unwed’** ; this vital piece of information was conveniently omitted to be mentioned anywhere (**and I was miserably trapped into it !!**)
As the word Undead rightly indicates, the book revolves around the story of Vampires and their ’Vampire Kingdom.’ constituted by a **Queen Betsy**, who is respectfully addressed to as ’Her Majesty’. She, along with the King (who gets bowled over by her looks everytime he sees her) and her ’**loyal subjects’**, unravel the mystery which seem to have suddenly shrouded their kingdom. They join hands (literally) and corner the person who was causing havoc and killing their fellow vamps.
I should have relied on my instincts which prompted me to quit reading by the end of Chapter One. But since I had promised to myself to have more patience when I am distressed, I decided to go ahead and I just realised that my life has become less cheerful as a consequence of this pathetic book.
*Let me give you an insight into the life of Vampires :*
*Vampires ARE humane** : Queen Betsy, after having her supper (which consists of few ounces of blood sucked from some unlucky guy and what did u think she would have, pizzas??), apologetically looks at him; and she even hates what she’s doing. Just that she couldn’t resist her desires. Highly distasteful.
*They are opulent** : The activities of the vamps are funded by a **S**wiss **B**ank **A**ccount and they live in posh houses. What was this supposed to be, a joke for us to laugh out loud? I was not amused one bit.
*Their looks **: As I have mentioned earlier, the description given for the queen and other vamps would match the looks of the Most Beautiful Women’s list in the world. I shuddered at the thought that we may not have the ability to differentiate between a normal woman from a vamp.
~Vamps too are tortured to ’death’ by a serial killer and they too are faced with so many complications in their dead lives to solve.
~The Queen Vamp is a gifted one. She remains Unkilled even after repeated assaults. FYI-Vamps get killed by wooden objects poked into their chests.
I would have excused the author for any of the above misdeeds, but she has tainted motherhood in a horrendous way. Apparently, the Queen’s (the Vamp Queen, I mean) mother is a normal human being, and is not dead or undead ! She is not in the least worried that her daughter is a vamp and the reason given is that she need not worry about her oh-so-beautiful daughter getting ’raped’ or ’killed’ by anyone. This was narrated in the most disgusting way, that one could imagine. If someone laughs at the so-called humour this book claims to have, they terribly need an immediate head-check.
The book ruined my innocent habit of visualizing what I read. Pray what would be my state if I had visualised such senseless things. I expected the book to be at the least spooky, if not funny.
*With such warnings in place, I am sure none would dare to get zapped by any Vamp Mojo !*