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Vampire Innocent #11
How to Stop a Vampire War in Six Easy Steps
Nothing has complicated Sarah Wright’s life as much as losing it.
Discovering vampires and other supernatural creatures are real took the sting out of being murdered by her ex-boyfriend. She’s enjoying her new reality, even if taking a knife to the heart was the sanest thing to happen to her since.
Not quite a year into being an immortal, Sarah’s embraced the supernatural world hidden beneath the veneer of modern society. Vampirism is crazy fun as long as no one’s trying to kill her (again). She’s doing her best to keep her head down and help her kid sister sell Girl Scout cookies, but it’s not quite as easy to stay off the radar after becoming an official member of vampire society.
A random attempt on her unlife proves old grudges haven’t been forgotten.
Somehow, Follows Rules Girl has made enemies of the immortal kind.
Aurelie’s decree of protection obligates her to respond, all but guaranteeing a city-wide war among the elders. Worse, the Wright family will be at ground zero… unless Sarah can find a way to stop it.
Discovering vampires and other supernatural creatures are real took the sting out of being murdered by her ex-boyfriend. She’s enjoying her new reality, even if taking a knife to the heart was the sanest thing to happen to her since.
Not quite a year into being an immortal, Sarah’s embraced the supernatural world hidden beneath the veneer of modern society. Vampirism is crazy fun as long as no one’s trying to kill her (again). She’s doing her best to keep her head down and help her kid sister sell Girl Scout cookies, but it’s not quite as easy to stay off the radar after becoming an official member of vampire society.
A random attempt on her unlife proves old grudges haven’t been forgotten.
Somehow, Follows Rules Girl has made enemies of the immortal kind.
Aurelie’s decree of protection obligates her to respond, all but guaranteeing a city-wide war among the elders. Worse, the Wright family will be at ground zero… unless Sarah can find a way to stop it.
324 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2020
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About the author
Matthew S. Cox
187 books265 followersBorn in a little town known as South Amboy NJ in 1973, Matthew has been creating science fiction and fantasy worlds for most of his reasoning life. Somewhere between fifteen to eighteen of them spent developing the world in which Division Zero, Virtual Immortality, and The Awakened Series take place. He has several other projects in the works as well as a collaborative science fiction endeavor with author Tony Healey.
Hobbies and Interests:
Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for two custom systems (Chronicles of Eldrinaath [Fantasy] and Divergent Fates [Sci Fi], and a fan of anime, British humour (<- deliberate), and intellectual science fiction that questions the nature of reality, life, and what happens after it.
He is also fond of cats.
Hobbies and Interests:
Matthew is an avid gamer, a recovered WoW addict, Gamemaster for two custom systems (Chronicles of Eldrinaath [Fantasy] and Divergent Fates [Sci Fi], and a fan of anime, British humour (<- deliberate), and intellectual science fiction that questions the nature of reality, life, and what happens after it.
He is also fond of cats.
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August 8, 2020
Awesome!!!
I couldn't wait for next installment of this series.
OMG I LOVE IT!
The family dynamics are amazing. I love how everyone is evolving, even Sara's mom. It was just fantastic, please please continue this storyline.
As always, I recommend this series and this author to all readers. You will love the adventure.
I couldn't wait for next installment of this series.
OMG I LOVE IT!
The family dynamics are amazing. I love how everyone is evolving, even Sara's mom. It was just fantastic, please please continue this storyline.
As always, I recommend this series and this author to all readers. You will love the adventure.
August 4, 2020
top three best serie about vampire last 5 years, poor mother in serie to funny
August 7, 2020
Undead Problems
•••NOT for the homophobic, transphobic, closedminded, or faint of heart!•••
This series must be read in order. The first book is "A Nighttime Of Forever". The second book is "A Beginner's Guide To Fangs". The third book is "The Artist Of Ruin". The fourth book is "The Last Family Road Trip". The fifth book is "The Phantom Oracle". The sixth book is "How Not To Summon Demons". The seventh book is "Ordinary Problems Of A College Vampire". The eighth book is "A Vampire's Guide To Surviving Holidays". The ninth book is "An Introduction To Paranormal Diplomacy". The tenth book is "A Vampire's Guide To Adulting". This is the eleventh book. I can't wait to read more!
This is by far my favorite book in this series. They only get better as time goes on. Sarah is amusing and believable and super relatable. Her family is cute and fun and quirky. The way they take things in stride is admirable. I don't think I'd take what happens to them anywhere as easily. I'd totally be in derpsville!
•••NOT for the homophobic, transphobic, closedminded, or faint of heart!•••
This series must be read in order. The first book is "A Nighttime Of Forever". The second book is "A Beginner's Guide To Fangs". The third book is "The Artist Of Ruin". The fourth book is "The Last Family Road Trip". The fifth book is "The Phantom Oracle". The sixth book is "How Not To Summon Demons". The seventh book is "Ordinary Problems Of A College Vampire". The eighth book is "A Vampire's Guide To Surviving Holidays". The ninth book is "An Introduction To Paranormal Diplomacy". The tenth book is "A Vampire's Guide To Adulting". This is the eleventh book. I can't wait to read more!
This is by far my favorite book in this series. They only get better as time goes on. Sarah is amusing and believable and super relatable. Her family is cute and fun and quirky. The way they take things in stride is admirable. I don't think I'd take what happens to them anywhere as easily. I'd totally be in derpsville!
November 18, 2024
Cox mixes the politely lethal conflict of medieval nobles or mafia dons with the unique threats and approaches of vampirism to create urban fantasy with pace and complexity.
This novel is the eleventh volume of Cox’s Vampire Innocent series. The previous books have plenty of enjoyable misunderstandings and reveals… it would be a shame if someone were to spoil them for you.
After nearly a year as a vampire, Sarah Wright is a—mostly—accepted member of vampire society. Being a glorified messenger for the unspoken ruler of the city can occasionally conflict with lectures and social engagements, but it also gives her a second level of protection to add to Auralie’s decree—until it doesn’t. An attempt on her unlife and the reappearance of an old enemy make leave Sarah caught between admitting she (and her mortal family) is fair game or risking a war between elders.
Continuing the skilled fusing of vampire tales with the milestones of transition from teenager to adult, this novel centres around that nigh ubiquitous new adult experience: the entry level position. In this case, it is working for a powerful vampire rather than a mundane business, but—realistically—it is the same sort of drudgery that most young people entering the job market face.
However, while carrying invitations and other innocuous messages like a nocturnal postal worker is grunt work, disputes in vampire society are—literally—more cut-throat than any between mortal businesses; thus, even before matters escalate, Cox weaves through the same passive tension that employees of legitimate fronts for organised crime might feel.
Once matters do escalate, the comparison with organised crime families—or fractious nobility—becomes much more obvious. With vampires being highly resilient, anything short of massive trauma is unlikely to be a deterrent; which makes any response to an affront only one step away from a classic ‘they put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of theirs in the morgue’ escalation. This is further complicated by both Sarah discovering evidence that suggests more than one person might be responsible, and other vampires suffering attacks as well: if an elder doesn’t react, they seem weak; if they react against the wrong person, it fuels the strife.
Cox carefully feeds the reader conflicting implications and theories, building a pleasing level of paranoid without allowing the plot to succumb to analysis paralysis. This sense of imminent but unclear lethal threat escalates further when Sarah’s family and friends are also targetted.
In parallel with his evocation of new adulthood and discreet yet violent strife between factions, Cox takes the reader deeper into his fresh yet consistent urban-fantasy world. The addition of mind-reading, memory altering, and other mystical powers add new challenges and solutions to the subtle knives of classic noble/criminal struggles, but also provide other unrelated philosophical issues.
Sarah remains a sympathetic character. While she has been aware that vampires are dangerous for the last ten books, having to decide whether to invoke Auralie’s protection potentially marks her transition from knowing they are dangerous and actually feeling that her exquisitely dressed mother-figure is an ancient predator capable of immense brutality. At the same time, she realises that being part of vampire society requires choosing a side in a struggle between creatures experienced enough to fake attacks against their allies to justify responding, who might discard her if she refuses to act like a vampire rather than a human. As before, Cox skilfully balances her drive to protect her family with her desire to remain a good person, creating an engaging struggle over which compromises are excusable.
The supporting cast, mostly returning characters, similarly have complex and nuanced personalities and challenges. This produces an intensity and depth that makes each character to fill space, allowing for a plausibly low number of supernatural beings while maintaining the volume of paranormal action that many urban fantasy readers crave.
Overall, I enjoyed this novel greatly. I recommend it to readers seeking vampiric politics that are highly plausible without feeling mundane.
I received a free copy from the author with no request to review.
This novel is the eleventh volume of Cox’s Vampire Innocent series. The previous books have plenty of enjoyable misunderstandings and reveals… it would be a shame if someone were to spoil them for you.
After nearly a year as a vampire, Sarah Wright is a—mostly—accepted member of vampire society. Being a glorified messenger for the unspoken ruler of the city can occasionally conflict with lectures and social engagements, but it also gives her a second level of protection to add to Auralie’s decree—until it doesn’t. An attempt on her unlife and the reappearance of an old enemy make leave Sarah caught between admitting she (and her mortal family) is fair game or risking a war between elders.
Continuing the skilled fusing of vampire tales with the milestones of transition from teenager to adult, this novel centres around that nigh ubiquitous new adult experience: the entry level position. In this case, it is working for a powerful vampire rather than a mundane business, but—realistically—it is the same sort of drudgery that most young people entering the job market face.
However, while carrying invitations and other innocuous messages like a nocturnal postal worker is grunt work, disputes in vampire society are—literally—more cut-throat than any between mortal businesses; thus, even before matters escalate, Cox weaves through the same passive tension that employees of legitimate fronts for organised crime might feel.
Once matters do escalate, the comparison with organised crime families—or fractious nobility—becomes much more obvious. With vampires being highly resilient, anything short of massive trauma is unlikely to be a deterrent; which makes any response to an affront only one step away from a classic ‘they put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of theirs in the morgue’ escalation. This is further complicated by both Sarah discovering evidence that suggests more than one person might be responsible, and other vampires suffering attacks as well: if an elder doesn’t react, they seem weak; if they react against the wrong person, it fuels the strife.
Cox carefully feeds the reader conflicting implications and theories, building a pleasing level of paranoid without allowing the plot to succumb to analysis paralysis. This sense of imminent but unclear lethal threat escalates further when Sarah’s family and friends are also targetted.
In parallel with his evocation of new adulthood and discreet yet violent strife between factions, Cox takes the reader deeper into his fresh yet consistent urban-fantasy world. The addition of mind-reading, memory altering, and other mystical powers add new challenges and solutions to the subtle knives of classic noble/criminal struggles, but also provide other unrelated philosophical issues.
Sarah remains a sympathetic character. While she has been aware that vampires are dangerous for the last ten books, having to decide whether to invoke Auralie’s protection potentially marks her transition from knowing they are dangerous and actually feeling that her exquisitely dressed mother-figure is an ancient predator capable of immense brutality. At the same time, she realises that being part of vampire society requires choosing a side in a struggle between creatures experienced enough to fake attacks against their allies to justify responding, who might discard her if she refuses to act like a vampire rather than a human. As before, Cox skilfully balances her drive to protect her family with her desire to remain a good person, creating an engaging struggle over which compromises are excusable.
The supporting cast, mostly returning characters, similarly have complex and nuanced personalities and challenges. This produces an intensity and depth that makes each character to fill space, allowing for a plausibly low number of supernatural beings while maintaining the volume of paranormal action that many urban fantasy readers crave.
Overall, I enjoyed this novel greatly. I recommend it to readers seeking vampiric politics that are highly plausible without feeling mundane.
I received a free copy from the author with no request to review.
October 26, 2020
Never a dull moment!
The action is pumped up in Sarah's life (undeath?). Seriously, there is never a dull moment, something is always shaking up her world. Being a vampire 'Innocent' is more exciting than you might expect. If you've been following the series this is an essential read!
The action is pumped up in Sarah's life (undeath?). Seriously, there is never a dull moment, something is always shaking up her world. Being a vampire 'Innocent' is more exciting than you might expect. If you've been following the series this is an essential read!
January 19, 2023
This book continues Sarah's growth, and has all the usual elements of the previous books. The Littles are also developing. If they grow up, the Wright children are going to be a force to be reckoned with.
One annoyance: The author seems to have forgotten details from previous books. Things like how often Sarah has to feed, what her usual (non emergency) flying speed is, how long a mortal needs to recover from the blood loss of a feeding. These are spelled out in each previous book, but this book changes some of them. No explanation, so I don't think this was intentional, just sloppy.
One annoyance: The author seems to have forgotten details from previous books. Things like how often Sarah has to feed, what her usual (non emergency) flying speed is, how long a mortal needs to recover from the blood loss of a feeding. These are spelled out in each previous book, but this book changes some of them. No explanation, so I don't think this was intentional, just sloppy.
October 5, 2020
Sarah is just adorable
That's my problem with this series. It's like kitten and puppy videos, beyond cute. I think I missed book or two because there were referenced events I didn't know about. I think I'm done with the series.
That's my problem with this series. It's like kitten and puppy videos, beyond cute. I think I missed book or two because there were referenced events I didn't know about. I think I'm done with the series.
August 12, 2024
The puns, oh the puns!
Very clever. Some of the things about this series that delights me are the puns and Dad jokes. The snark is strong.
Very clever. Some of the things about this series that delights me are the puns and Dad jokes. The snark is strong.
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