Undead and Unworthy (Queen Betsy, Book 7)
by MaryJanice Davidson
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Author: MaryJanice DavidsonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-24
ISBN: 0425221628
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
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Book Review: "Queen Betsy" book 7 kicks off a new comic vampire trilogy
Summary: 4 Stars
This comedy vampire thriller is number seven in a series which incongruously combines chick lit, romantic comedy and vampire thriller - from the viewpoint of the new and very unlikely Queen of the Vampires. Imagine a cross between "Sex and the City" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and you've roughly got the idea.
The full list of Queen Betsy stories to date is
1) Undead and Unwed
2) Undead and Unemployed
3) Undead and Unappreciated
4) Undead and Unreturnable
5) Undead and Unpopular
6) Undead and Uneasy.
7) Undead and Unworthy
The plotlines of the first six books were all more or less resolved in number six, "Undead and Uneasy." Hence this book, "Undead and Unworthy" kicks off what author Mary Janice Davidson (MJD) calls a new "story arc" - she also says that this will be a trilogy.
There is also a "Queen Betsy" story in "Dead over Heels" which is a collection of three paranormal romance novellas. In my opinion you will get most out of these books if you read them in order: I would start with "Undead and Unwed" and work on from there.
The "Queen Betsy" books are told in the first person by Elizabeth Taylor, who prefers to be called Betsy for obvious reasons. The first words of the series are "The day I died started out bad and got worse in a hurry."
Betsy is a former model and is still a fashion fanatic: at the start of the series, on the morning of her disastrous 30th birthday, she is working as a secretary. Her main interests are designer shoes, designer clothes, and her cat. In quick succession she gets fired, loses her cat, and is killed in a car accident. It is a great surprise to her when she rises again as a most unusual vampire. It is even more of a surprise when, through a sequence of bizarre events, she becomes queen of the vampires.
At the start of this seventh book, the initial chaos which resulted from Betsy's accession to the Vampire Throne appears to have died down. Then, shortly after her honeymoon and in quick succession,
* Betsy's ghastly and recently-deceased stepmother Antonia ("the Ant") starts haunting her
* Local detective Nick Berry, who is also the boyfriend of Betsy's best friend Jessica, asks Betsy for some discreet help in solving the horrible murders of a number of gangsters. Nick suspects that a rogue element of the police force has found a way to get rid of local criminals without the tedious business of gathering evidence or attending court, by paying a vampire or fiend to murder them.
* Betsy and her friends are attacked by a pack of ungrateful fiends.
There will be a lot of confusing and amusing shenanagans before all this is sorted out ...
Mary Davidson has great fun with the incongruity of mixing up the vampire genre as in Laurell Hamilton's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series (or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Chick-Lit romantic comedy a la "Sex and the City." This series is way over the top, fairly sexy, and usually very funny.
An interesting comparison with other authors who have written entertaining comedies by combining incongruous genres would be with Marianne Mancusi and Robert Frezza.
In the same way that this book gets plenty of laughs by combining chick lit with Vampires, Frezza write two very funny books which combined Vampires and Science Fiction ("McLendon's Syndrome" and "The VMR Theory") and Mancusi combined chick lit with time travel in "A Connecticut Fashionista at King Arthur's Court" and "A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest." Anyone who likes this book is likely to enjoy all four of those, and vice versa, if you have read and enjoyed one of those books you may well enjoy this one.
OK, this is never going to win the Booker Prize or any other great award for classic literature, and it is fairly raunchy, so not suitable for children. However, if you have the right sort of sense of humour, it is pretty good fun. I can recommend "Undead and Unworthy" and also enjoyed reading the rest of the series.
Summary of Undead and Unworthy (Queen Betsy, Book 7)
Seventh in the hilarious New York Times bestselling series featuring Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor?now with a hot new look.
The series New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan calls ?DELIGH TFUL, Wicked Fun? is looking hotter than ever?
?No one does humorous romantic fantasy better than the incomparable MaryJanice Davidson? (The Best Reviews), and nobody reigns over the undead with more savvy than her heroine Betsy Taylor, back to rule the nights as Vampire Queen??and survive the days as a new suburban bride. But it?s not all marital bliss. Betsy?s husband, Sinclair, has been perusing The Book of the Dead, Betsy?s being hounded by a ghost who?s even more insufferable in death than in life, and a pack of formerly feral vampires has decided to pay an unwelcome visit?
The series New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan calls ?DELIGH TFUL, Wicked Fun? is looking hotter than ever?
?No one does humorous romantic fantasy better than the incomparable MaryJanice Davidson? (The Best Reviews), and nobody reigns over the undead with more savvy than her heroine Betsy Taylor, back to rule the nights as Vampire Queen??and survive the days as a new suburban bride. But it?s not all marital bliss. Betsy?s husband, Sinclair, has been perusing The Book of the Dead, Betsy?s being hounded by a ghost who?s even more insufferable in death than in life, and a pack of formerly feral vampires has decided to pay an unwelcome visit?
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