It's not bad by any means, but hits a lot of wrong notes for me notes for me and misses some key values.

Glory is fun. I will definitely be checking out book two.

A very funny story about a plus-size vampire.

Fun vampire story - Glory is not your typical vampire. She opens a vintage clothing store, helps catch the vamp killer, and is still trying to figure out what to do with the guy who turned her, who has been her on/off boyfriend for several hundred years. Light fluff.

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NOPE.

Sorry, Kris, I tried.

DNF.

Good book overall (fluffy and fun). However, I feel like I got tricked into reading a romance novel: there was a sex scene every 50 pages, like clockwork. At least I now assume that's how romance novels work.

It took me awhile to get this read. I wasn't feeling like a fiction book but was so happy when I finally got back into my kick. I liked this book because of the humor, the not outrageous sex scenes, and because Glory is not some whiny "Why me" character. Bartlett writes a good vamp book.

This story took a long time to get started, but once it did I liked it. However, I did not like all of the characters. I cannot stand Damien and really hope that someone kills him later in the series. I love Jeremiah and hope that he and Glory can get their act together and live happily ever after. Valdez is a fun character and really how can you not love a talking dog? I was a little upset when I found out Ryan was the spy, but not all that surprised, but I did feel bad for Lacy. I will continue to read this series, but it's not one that I must run out and finish immediately.

I have read this book before. Ok, not this exact book. Yet so many parts of this book are in others I have read from this genre. Here’s the jist: Glory, a fuller-figured vampire, owns a vintage clothing store in Austin. She is becoming immersed in the town’s local vampire community and enjoying her new store and apartment. Then vampires start turning up dead, with arrows or crosses through their hearts. The killer has caught sight of Glary and seems to be targeting her as his next victim. Now her ‘ex’ flame Blade is on the scene to protect her. The two have always loved each other but they just haven’t been able to see eye to eye well enough to stay together. The fuller figured vampire is a unique idea and I applaud Bartlett for using it and making Glory such an individual. But Blade, the ex who is back again, brings to mind the hero from Linda Wisdom’s Hex series. I didn’t like the idea of Blade wearing a kilt either. What is it about men in kilts in Romance books? I personally don’t see it as hot at all and even in a vampire-world it feels too unrealistic. (One exception, although it annoys me there to, is Kerrelyn Spark’s Love at Stake series. She has a group of kilt-wearing security guards and they are funny enough to make it work) Glory also has a talking dog. The main characters in Angie Fox’s “Accidental Demon Slayer” and Katie MacAlister’s “Aisling Gray” series both had talking dogs. Terry Garey’s heroine Nikki Styx owns a vintage clothing store also. Glory has a gay best friend, and lets face it, that’s pretty much a cliché right now. Gerry Bartlett may or may not have come up with these ideas before the others I mentioned. I am not implying anyone “took” anyone else’s ideas. The point I am trying to make is that these plots or ideas are overused in the field right now. Its hard to come up with something truly unique. What I can say about “Real Vampires”- Glory is more likable than many of her contemporaries. I could hang with Glory. Valdez, her canine protector, is probably my favorite of the talking dogs. Some are cute, some are just annoying. Valdez is a hoot, and sweet to boot. I love the intrigue that Damion brings to the book. He is a friend-enemy of Blades, a real bad boy. You don’t really ever get a good feel on him so that kept me on my toes because we never know what he will do next. I liked this story. It wasn’t anything amazing, but it was an entertaining few hours of reading and I would continue on. It may have felt like déjà vu reading parts of this book , but these moments are so fun, its worth the retread