When she develops a disturbing lust for blood (ewww! she moans), supernatural strength and her teeth begin to grow she realizes the long haired, freaky eyed ruffians who attacked and bit her months earlier must’ve been vampires!Īs Betsy attempts to adjust to her lifestyle change she’s abducted and taken to a cemetery where she’s confronted by Nostro, a Bela Legosi wannabe, and his pale minions. What kind of hell is this? Wanting her undead life to come to a screeching halt Betsy tries her best to finish herself off but stubbornly remains one of the walking dead. But worse, her makeup appears to have been slapped on by someone with no sense of style, she’s wearing her stepmother’s cast off pink suit and her very expensive designer shoes have been replaced by cheap Payless shoes that scream “buy one get one free!”. She’s apparently dead and lying in a casket. The ungrateful cat runs off without a scrape while Betsy winds up dead for her troubles.īetsy awakens to a horrifying vision. Soon after, Betsy ends up getting herself run down by a car while attempting to rescue her cat. She meanders home to discover her party postponed because her stepmother has conveniently gone off her meds. She’s turning thirty and if being “too old for club hopping and too young for bingo” weren’t bad enough, Betsy arrives late for work to learn she’s been laid off from her position as Super Secretary (AKA executive assistant). Might the never-ending trend of bland paranormal romances and forgettable characters be coming to an end?īetsy (short for Elizabeth) Taylor is having a colossally lousy birthday week. The language is rough, the sex and “almost” sex is a perfect blend of edgy meets funny (and fits the tone of the book), and I haven’t laughed so hard while reading since the turkey scene in one of Janet Evanovich’s earlier Stephanie Plum books. Undead and Unwed is a riot of a book that, like its heroine, never takes itself seriously and pokes fun at romance, vampire and chick lit clichés.
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