Full of riffs on everything from The Vampire Diaries to Anita Blake, the book is never quite gripping enough to work as a real vampire drama or funny enough to work as a parody, but may still delight Cabot diehards and vampire completists. HarperCollins, 16.99 (262pp) ISBN 978-0-06-083764-8 Jean, aka Jinx, has been a bad luck magnet since the moment she was born, when a freak thunderstorm caused a hospital. Skip to Main Content Dow Jones, a News Corp. Written in Cabot's usual charming style, this sequel to Insatiable bears the marks of second book syndrome: pages spent awkwardly retelling past events aimless wandering from subplot to subplot and the inclusion of characters from the previous book who turn out to be irrelevant to the current story. Meg Cabot discusses her approach to writing vampire novels, how she keeps all her different characters and books straight, and her quirky fan mail. Now Lucien returns with a dangerous and mysterious new scheme, while a troop of gung-ho Vatican vampire hunters roll into town. Not only is Meena caught between her love for the elusive vampire and her attraction to the hot, but cryptic, demon hunter Alaric Wulf, she's also torn between protecting innocent humans and saving Lucien's soul. Meena Harper is a soap opera writer turned psychic demon hunter who still carries a torch for her vampire ex, Lucien Antonescu%E2%80%94Dracula's morally ambivalent son.
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