Ok, so let's start with the positives:
1. I liked the storyline.
2. It was a good, easy read and an enjoyable style.
What I didn't like:
For me, there was just too much sexual reference in the first half of the book. I know that sounds prudish, but let me explain. There are some comedians who can make anything funny, from riding a horse to hanging out the washing. There are some comedians who can only ever tell crude, gutter jokes, and after a while, you start wishing they'd branch out with their humour because they are no longer funny.
Anyway, I was starting to think Deanna Chase was an author version of one of those comedians. She was trying to get the story going in a funny way, but couldn't think of any way that didn't involve sexual references.
We start the book with our heroine (Fe) making bouquets with vibrators as the centrepiece. Naturally, we then get a series of exchanges between our hero (Chris) and Fe about those vs the real thing and inserting them properly. Then we get this elderly witch who is a little starved for male attention, and she takes one look at Chris and decides she wants to take him home for the night. When he says he is actually going out with Fe the witch starts hurling insults at Fe.
Then the bride turns up and we get a few more comments about vibrators and then she invites Fe to the strip club for the bachelorette party, so we get some comments about that.
Then we get the strip club and another string of inevitable comments. Things briefly get interesting, but then we have a scene where a vibrator turns on and goes flying through the air, lodges itself in the right part of Fe's anatomy and leaves her a little excited. So then the bride makes comments about how Fe looks ready to go home with anyone.
Then we get the groom (vampire) sucking the blood of another woman (equivalent to kissing another woman) and we hear that the woman in question tried to win a wealthy groom of someone else by jumping into their bed naked and waited for them.
Then Fe ends up passed out and Chris has to undress her because she fell into mud, so we get all of his internal dialogue during that process. I expect that in a book and wouldn't mind at all, but by then it was yet another scene about something sexual.
Then they head off to find a missing witch and we end up at bingo, but it can't just be bingo. It has to be strip bingo. And on top of that we get a scene where an old lady stands up to shout bingo and her pants fall down so she moons everyone and we get conversations about the enjoyment, or lack thereof, of her bottom.
It gets more into the storyline then, and there isn't any more need for sexual fillers, but that was half-way through the book and by then it was all a bit much. It ceased to be funny or clever. I wanted Chase to show me she could be funny without sexual references, but I don't think she can.
I would like to read another of her books, but I'm not sure if I can cope.