Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Half-Moon Hollow, #1) (Jane Jameson, #1)

by Molly Harper

The first in the Half-Moon Hollow series is “wry, delicious fun” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a librarian whose life is turned upside down by a tempestuous and sexy vampire.

Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children’s librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that’s sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood.

Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She’s forced to forgo her favorite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn’t enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What’s a nice undead girl to do?

• ISBN10: 1439158576
• ISBN13: 9781439158579
• Publish Date: 31 March 2009
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Pocket Books
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[littleread1]

Fun, funny, and with a unique southern spin - I really really enjoyed this! Where have you been hiding, Jane Jameson?

[tellemonstar]

Jane has a pretty spectaculary bad day in this book – and I’m not talking about the one where she was fired, handed a twenty-five dollar voucher to the local bar ‘Shenanigans’ with free potato skins (Ewww. Can someone explain those to me please?), shot by a drunk driver deciding to do some deer shooting and left for dead. No, I mean where she lasts four hours in a night-time telemarketing job, is faced with some pretty crazy vampire-hate and smells so badly of cigarette smoke that her very luscious sire can’t stand to kiss her and it takes several days for her to wash her hair out. Those aren’t her only bad days either the poor girl. Who said being undead was supposed to be easy?

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[Melanie]

Listening to audiobook

Revisited and loved it.

[EBookObsessed]

Librarian Jane Jameson is having a really bad day. She was just fired from her job from the Half-Moon Hollow’s Public Library, to be replaced by her boss’s alphabetically challenged daughter, and instead of a severance check, she got a $25.00 gift certificate to Shenanigan’s. The day was starting to look better after a plate of potato skins and a pitcher of mudslides, she meets a dark and gorgeous stranger who found her delightful and charming instead of the usual “odd and quirky.”

Well, her day was looking up, that is until she was heading home and her car broke down on the side of the road, and if that’s not bad enough, Bud McElray drives past and mistakes her for a eight-point buck and shoots her in the chest, leaving her to bleed to death in a ditch on the side of the road. Aww, crap!

At least that was the last thing she remembers before she woke up in the dark, gorgeous stranger’s bed. Oh, no, did she actually just become an unemployed, drunken, one-night-stand floosy? No, wait--she died…

That’s how Jane figured out Mr. Tall, Dark and Yummy was a vampire, and now she was one too. Gabriel Nightengale, vampire sire, was following Jane home to make sure she arrived safely after her Shenanigan’s bender and saw her get shot and left in the ditch.

Life changing though this was, oddly enough, this had a lot of competition for the weirdest thing in Jane’s life.

Her best friend since grade school, Zeb, finally had an actual date…with a woman, and not just any woman, a werewolf.

Her Grandma Ruthie a/k/a Black Widow Ruthie has just killed off another Grandpa. Grandpa Fred just died of an unfortunate Viagra overdose.

And now that she’s a vampire, Jane can see her that her Great Aunt Jettie never went into the light, and her ghostly form is still hanging around Jane’s house and is now dating Jane’s recently deceased Grandpa Fred.

And Mama…oh don’t get her started on Mama…

Then Jane realizes that there is something worse than being fired, mistaken for a prize buck and being turned into a vampire…telling her Mama she’s now a vampire

THOUGHTS:

Take vampires, werewolves, ghosts and add a whole lot of snarky humor and you have Molly Harper’s Jane Jameson series. I don’t believe I have ever laughed out loud as much as I have while listening to this series. That crazy woman in the car next to you laughing like a loon is me…*smile and wave*.

Jane is the perfect blend of the well read librarian, with a real Jane Austin obsession, and the queen of snarky comments. I love snarky heroines.

Her friends are crazy, but her family is absolutely insane, from the overbearing southern mother, to the jealous, former cheerleader sister who wants Jane’s house and all the family collectibles, and the grandmother who keeps killing off husbands.

Gabriel is sexy, overprotective and mysterious as all good vampire boyfriends should be, and Jane’s new vampire friend and Gabriel’s old enemy, Richard “Dick” Chaney is a riot.

Since this is a first person perspective story, you get a full dose of the quirky character that is Jane Jameson.

This a hysterical series and I am breezing right through it. If you like your paranormal romance with a great deal of fun, you need to take a trip with me to Half-Moon Hollow, Kentucky where crazy is just the same old-same old.

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[MurderByDeath]

I had so much fun reading this book! The author's wit and humour clicked with me and I absolutely loved the dialogue. The mystery was, while not the main focus of the story, well thought out and not obvious. The only part of this story I didn't like was just how nasty the women in her family are to her but at least the author allowed the main character, Jane, to have a spine and she didn't take being treated like crap as though she deserved it. Jane gives and good as she gets and I love reading about her. I'm really looking forward to reading the next book.

[Linda]

Quick, fun read. Plot and characters quite predictable, but still an enjoyable story. Fun, light story. Vampires that are out and drinking bagged blood, but having some problems with their live family.

[Lindsey Gray]

I don't remember how I stumbled on to this series, but I'm sure glad I did. I love Jane. Her death is a little more than humiliating, but she deals with it in her own snarky Jane way. The comic timing in this story is flawless, but there is still romance, suspense, and action to give it the whole readers delight package. Five stars and on to the next in the series I go.