Originally reviewed fir Tea and Book
Ok, I admit it, Sara Humphreys could make rocks and fallen trees sexy.. I am the first to say I don't enjoy the "traditional" Vampire stories. You know with sires and covens, makers and such. But a good author can destroy all preconceptions. Vampire Trouble is book two in her Dead in the City ( also known as Vampires in NYC) Series. In book one, Tall, Dark and Vampire, I tumbled into love and in book two, Vampire Trouble, I just kept falling.
Olivia and Doug have become co-czars of New York. Their bloodmating has caused some concern in the supernatural world. The ability to Daywalk is bad enough but Olivia's pregnancy has everyone wondering. The last thing she needs is a pack of rogue werewolves wandering around New York while the leaders of the Supernatural world are all in a conclave in Europe assessing her situation. Oh and a wayward prodigy who needs to break out for a while.
Maya is a young Vampire, she was turned just five years ago, she was brutally assaulted and almost died before Olivia was able to turn her. While she is grateful to be alive, so to speak, she keeps reliving her assault in her nightmares. Consequently she hunts only the type of man who destroyed her. Teasing them, promising them more, before she feeds, rearranges their memories and then moves on. It's about the control. But even that isn't enough anymore..She is feeling hemmed in and needs a reprieve from the coven. Accepting a bartending job at the strip joint of a rather skeavy vampire, of course he is he owns a strip joint. Everything might be ok except she seems to have acquired a bodyguard and an admirer. The bodyguard is the oh so sexy Shane, a guard for the czars. And the admirer is the second son of the leader of the werewolves. Of course nothing is ever what it seems.
Shane Quesada is over four centuries old and lives for his duty and honor but lately Olivia's pretty little bartender has garnered his attention. When he is pulled into her dreamscape Shane realizes that it is something more than mere attraction and when he is allowed that first taste, he realizes that she is his bloodmate.. confused that he should have a bloidmate and worried about how it will affect his duty, Shane is given a temporary solution, become Maya's bodyguard. But when his protection of Maya causes what could be an inner species event, everything goes crazy.
This book was jammed packed..
Maya has no memory of her past and her meeting with the werewolves causes some sort of reaction inside her. She has absolutely no idea why she has become a target. What do they want from her?
Then of course us the oh so sexy Shane.. how can she ever accept such a warrior in her life? Except that even Maya sees that with her he is a gentle giant.
What can Maya and Shane accomplish if they are excited from New York?
We also get to see Boris and Lillian from the Amoveo world. We meet the sexy werewolf Julian, we hear about Asmodeous and various and assorted supernatural are mentioned. It seems th a Ms. Humphreys is starting to bring her worlds together.
I can't wait to see what she has coming up next!
This was a I can't put this book down experience..So yeah I recommend it! For Me this was one if those rare Five Plus Star review
Shauni
This review is based on the ARC of Vampire Trouble, provided by netgalley and is scheduled to be released on July 1, 2014