Berls
Written on Aug 18, 2016
- ISBN10 1476794391
- ISBN13 9781476794396
- Publish Date 27 October 2015
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 384
- Language English
Reviews
MurderByDeath
Written on Aug 7, 2016
Anyone who has read Molly Harper's books, specifically the ones that take place in Half Moon Hollow, know why I bought this book: Half Moon Hollow stories are pure fun.
I was worried when it arrived as a love triangle is central to the story, and love triangles are evil. I needn't have worried; Harper knows how to make even a love triangle palatable and funny. (She also embraces full disclosure and eschews male posturing, which makes triangles so much easier to...not loathe.)
The Single Undead Moms Club doesn't really have a strong single plot line that's a constant thread throughout the story. Libby is a newly turned vampire fighting a custody battle for her son, she's starting to date again, and she's trying to fit in with both the vampires and the PTA, but all three sub-plots sort of seamlessly weave in and out of each other. Towards the end there's a mystery that brings everything to a close.
Harper's books are great for pure light-hearted fun reading; solid writing, great characters with strong friendships between both men and women, and a lot of great one-liners keep me coming back for every new book.
Melanie
Written on Oct 29, 2015
I’m a huge fan of Molly Harper’s Half Moon Hollow and Jane Jameson series. This book is a great addition to the vampires of Half Moon Hollow. Libby Stratton is a single mom with a young boy of about six. She was widowed not that long ago and now she has terminal cancer. She can’t think of leaving her boy without either of his parents. So she puts out an ad to find a vampire to turn her so that she can live. What she didn’t think about was how the people of Half Moon Hollow would react.
Small towns can be a bitch. I was originally born in a small town in South Georgia. Reading Half Moon Hollow books remind me so much of that little town, it is hilarious. Gossip circles and cliches are all the rage. Once one person finds out that Libby is no longer human, it doesn’t take long for it to spread around the town. What’s worse, is that her son, Danny, gets a lot of the backlash, as if he had anything to do with it.
As much as Libby is ostracized by humans that she really wasn’t that great of friends with anyway, she has gain a great new group of friends in the vampire community in Jane, Dick and the gang. They really come into help Libby when she really needs it.
There is also single father, Wade, and his son Harley. Harley and Danny become fast friends which pull Wade and Libby together. There is instant chemistry, even if they started off on the wrong foot in the school. On the plus side, Wade isn’t put off by the whole vampire thing.
Libby is also having to fight for custody of her child has her in-laws fight for custody. They don’t want just partial custody either. Her father-in-law is convinced that Libby is hanging out with a bad crowd and that this vampire thing is really bad for Danny. He wants full custody with no visitation.
I found this story to be another great addition to the story. As always, it was a lot of fun. Full of laughs and snarky humor that I’ve come to expect from a Molly Harper book. It was great to see the large cast of characters, as almost everyone from the series made an appearance.
Narration
Amanda Ronconi does yet another wonderful job with the narration of this book. I just love the way she is able to bring out the humor in these stories. She is able to handle the increasing large cast of crazy characters with ease. She has no issues with male or female voices. She does a great job with her tone and pace.
EBookObsessed
Written on Oct 11, 2015
Libby Stratton was desperate. Her husband died two years ago in an accident and she was loving her fight to cancer. She had a choice to make, let the cancer win and give up her son to be raised by her in-laws or find a sneaky way to stay alive. Not that her in-laws were bad people, per say. They just kept treating Danny like a mini-Rob, rather than see their grandson as his own person with his own likes and wants.
That’s what led Libby to place a personal ad for a Sire-for-Hire. Okay, maybe it was very naive of Libby to meet a strange vampire at the Lucky Clover Hotel and maybe it wasn’t a great idea to take all those over-the-counter sleeping pills so she wouldn’t feel any pain, but all’s well that ends well, right? Okay, so the new council members, Jane Jameson-Nightingale and Dick Cheney aren’t happy with the newest vampire on the block and have taken over her training personally. Especially since Jane has indicated that Libby’s sire is “an asshat” and shouldn’t be trusted.
Libby is happy for the help. It is thanks to Jane and Dick that Libby knows she won’t be attacking her son once he comes home from his camping trip. Due to their hard work and the fact that he stinks of unwashed boy and campfire. There probably isn’t a vampire hungry enough to take a chomp out of that. Ewww.
Once Libby knows that she is safe around her son, it is time to get down to all the other pressing mom issues that she needs to deal with. School starts in about a week. She still needs to get back to school supplies and deal with who is going to pick up Danny from school now that Libby has a new sunlight allergy.
Not everyone is happy with Libby’s new lifestyle change. Her in-laws were all ready to take her son away and Libby thwarting their plans gets their collective panties in a wad. In fact, instead of celebrating the fact that Libby is no longer dying, they take her to Court to prove that she is now an unfit mother.
And it is not just her in-laws that she is having problems with. The other parents at school are whispering behind Libby’s back. No one will let their kid come over to play with Danny. But even being the most unwanted parent in Half Moon Hollow can’t get Libby out of PTA duty. They might not be willing to take her cupcakes, but they have no problem assigning her to the most undesirable of PTA duties.
Learning to be a mommy vamp isn’t going to be easy, but Libby would rather be a kicked off the carpool list than leave her son to her in-laws.
THOUGHTS:
I love both of Molly Harper’s series. I love that she can take paranormal romance and have such fun with it. All these characters are crazy and quirky, and changing the series from Jane Jameson to Half-Moon Hollow has just opened it up to all kinds of possibilities.
In fact, I think that Libby’s transformation to vampire is one of the least crazy themes Molly has gone with so far. As a Mom I can imagine making this desperate choice quite easily and it seems strange that Libby gets such abuse from the other moms.
I liked that Libby quickly makes friends among the paranormal community where she never was able to with the regular school moms. Women are so catty sometimes.
She has a great love interest in the hot, tattooed single dad in town. Their boys hit it off a lot faster than they do in the beginning, and you know from all the angry sparks flying in their initial meetings while they snipe at each other can only lead to hot sex later in the story. I would have like a little more Libby/Wade time.
Received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.