Harlequin with vampires and more sex.

May have slight spoilers.

In author Lynsay Sands second Argeneau novel, Love Bites, we have Etienne Argeneau and Rachel Garrett’s book.

Rachel is a human who works the night-shift at the morgue and is dying got get on the day shift. Back at work for the first time after a horrid bout of flu that kept her away for a week she is in no way ready for a crazy maniac waving an ax and going on about vampires.

Etienne is a vampire geek; he is the popular designer of a vampire video game. At the moment he is having trouble with a man who found out that he is a vampire. When Rachel saves his life, at the cost of her own, he can do no less than change her—even if he can only ever change on human, his life mate.

He will just have to try and work things out with Rachel, or else he is going to be spending eternity alone.

It is a good thing that they both felt a strong attraction for each other or else this book could have gone entirely in the other direction. Lol

I have to say that I do not remember Etienne from the first book. I mean I know he was mentioned but I do not think he was actually ever presenting the book, though I could be mistaken?

Either way—vampire geek or not, I have to say that I liked this second book even more than the first. Etienne, is just, well he was so much MORE than Greg was to me.

Rachel is very resistant to being a vampire. She already hated the night-shift when she was human and she has some pretty cliché and horrid ideals about vampires, mostly revolving around Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Like I said—without the attraction between both Rachel and Etienne this book could have gone in a very different direction. But that was not the case, the attraction between them is very strong and there even before Rachel is turned.

There were also more sex scenes in this book than the last (another plus for this book), they were more detailed too. But as with the last book this one is very humorous and I love that the author can walk that line between funny, sexy and still have the angst/suspense between the two characters and ‘bad guy’.

In the end we get an epilogue with Bastien (the second oldest brother) that tell us whose book will be next—Bastien’s!

Then maybe it will be Lucern’s book?

I would recommend this novel to anyone who is looking for a wonderful paranormal romance novel.

~ 1.5 stars ~

What the hell was that.

Love Bites, the second book to the Argeneau series, somehow managed to be even weirder than its predecessor, and that’s a big feat. Let’s just say, whenever I read a vampire book in future, I’m going to be terrified there will be a dick biting while giving head scene. Yes that happened, yes she said she wanted to bite into his penis like a sausage, yes I’m now having nightmares.
So we follow vampire Etienne, who is a 300 year old bachelor. It’s so over the top it’s actually funny. When being attacked by a crazy fanatic named Pudge (yes.... the bad guys name is Pudge, can we not talk about it), Etienne is saved by coroner Rachel. When her saving him results in her death, Etienne turns her to save her life. Then Etienne and Rachel just bone for like 100 pages straight. And then they fall in love. Cause nothing says I love you like sucking blood from someone’s penis. Yeah this was weird. But I’m still going to keep reading this series because apparently I hate myself.

I liked this book the best of the three I’ve read so far from this series. The explanation for vampirism is still insane, but it is less distracting the second time you hear it. I don’t love that Etienne was trying to manipulate Rachel into being reliant on him at the beginning or that he never got caught for it. But I did find their love story fairly believable. By the end, they are kind of sweet together.

Not quite as good as I remembered; you can tell it was one of the early ones in the series for her. Still a fast, decent read, especially if you want the whole family's stories.

Another enjoyable read in a series I am liking more and more. I think I liked the first book a little more but still I enjoyed this story fun and enjoyable. While I really liked Rachel in this book, I wasn't a huge fan of Etienne, whom i had liked in the first book, as much during this story as he i felt he did some things that made Rachel's transition harder than it needed to be. It also took me a while to warm to their chemistry. That being said though the story line flowed well and kept me entertained the whole way through and i know this is a series i will be continuing on with.

I'll say this, you know what you're getting into when you read these books. Are they literature? No. Are they sexy and entertaining? Absolutely. Will I continue to listen to them in audiobook form because I'm slightly embarrassed reading them where people could see the front cover? For sure. I will say, as the series progresses, her storytelling gets better and she's making me actually curious about the other characters. So there's that. Other than that, it's a vampire romance.

Etienne's story. An unbalanced human has realized Etienne is a vampire and keeps trying to kill him. When the coroner saves his life Etienne feels obligated to turn her. Then as sparks fly he keeps finding excuses to keep her with him.

There was nothing wrong with this book, it just didn't really catch me. The plot was fine. A bit long for my taste.