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Karen Chance ~ Midnights Daughter ~ Grade: B-

Dorina Basarab is Mircea's daughter from the Cassandra Palmer books (we don't find this out till this book I think), she is a dhampir which is half human/half vampire. The main story line is her father wants her to help find her uncle Dracula to imprison him again, with the aid Louise-Cesare.I have only recently began reading Urban Fantasy and most of them have been in 1st person so I do not have a lot of comparison to other UF books but I enjoyed this one. It had few minor problems like sometimes I wish I knew what Louise-Cesare was thinking and a few times she cuts away from something and then explain's what happened in the next scene. If you like UF or any of Karen Chance's other books you should give this one a try, you might be a little lost if you never read any of her other books especially with some of then secondary characters.


Jeanne Ray ~ Julie and Romeo & Julie And Romeo Get Lucky ~ series Grade: B+

I found Julie and Romeo at my local libraries book sale for $1.00 it looked interesting and the story featured rival florists getting together so I bought It. When I got home looked the book up to see any reviews on it and found there was sequel so I bought that, to read them back to back. When I started the 1st book, I almost stopped reading right away because of the age of the Main Characters (50+) and because they were in 1st person point of view, which I thought wouldn't interest me, but I was wrong. The Main story of the 1st book is that Julie and Romeo run into each other at seminar they decide to go out after and talk even though there families have been feuding for all there lives. They end up starting to fall for each other; the ensuing story is what happens when there families find out. The second book main story line is Julie's granddaughter has a lottery ticket obsession and what happens when she wins. It also continues with resolving the open issues from the 1st book and see how they have adjusted to J&R's relationship. Both books are written very well. The surrounding families in each book are wonderful yet have there own issues and Idiosyncrasies that all families have. There are a lot of funny parts. They are very feel good books and have much happier endings then Romeo and Juliet that the titles play off of. If you like family sagas then give these a try.