I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas (Half-Moon Hollow, #6.5)

by Molly Harper

Experience the vampire world for the holidays through the eyes of Gigi Scanlon in this e-novella prequel to The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire from beloved paranormal romance author Molly Harper!

College co-ed Gigi is headed home to Half-Moon Hollow for her first Christmas since her sister, Iris, was turned into a vampire by her beloved undead husband, Cal. Iris is working overtime to make this holiday as normal and special as possible. After all, it’s taken her months of working with Jane Jameson and the Hollow’s vampires to convince herself that she won’t bite her baby sister on sight.

Gigi has her own worries. She’s falling out of love with her high school sweetheart, Ben, and has no idea how to tell him. She’s got a secret job interview with terrifying teen Council official, Ophelia Lambert. And there’s a handsome but cagey vampire following her around town and then disappearing before Gigi can confirm that he’s not, in fact, a figment of her fertile imagination. Holidays with family are complicated. Christmas with an undead family can be downright dangerous.

• ISBN10: 147678454X
• ISBN13: 9781476784540
• Publish Date: 17 November 2014 (first published 20 May 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Pocket Star
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 130
• Language: English

Reviews

[Berls]

This review appeared first at Fantasy is More Fun.

Actual Rating 3.5 stars.

My Initial Reaction...

It was so fun to go back to Half-Moon Hallow for I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas. I couldn't help feeling that I'd missed something though... Just the same, I found myself laughing my ass off, as usual with this series.

The Good...

The humor and the narration! Gah, Molly Harper and Amanda Ronconi make an incredible team! The snark and witty humor just never stops coming and the way that Amanda delivers Molly's writing is spot on. I laughed so hard a few times that my boyfriend came and shut the door. Apparently I was having too much fun :)

I just love these characters! I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas is a slight shift, though. We're not following Jane anymore, now we're with Gigi. I loved seeing her battle the questions of what she was going to do about her current relationship and her sister's attempts to make her first Christmas home for the holidays perfect, despite the fact that Iris (her sister) is now a vampire. I think it was even funnier that Iris was trying so hard to deal with being a newly turned vampire while Gigi didn't care AT ALL. Her family is surrounded by vampires and the occasional werewolf, so what's one more?

The Bad...

This isn't the bad so much as the watch out...

So the first thing is that I came into this going, what a minute, who are Gigi and Iris? Guess what? There's a whole series called Half-Moon Hollow and it is not just another name for the Jane Jameson series. On one side this is great news! I have a lot more of Half-Moon Hollow to read. The bad, I didn't figure that out until writing this review, so I was a bit lost at times.

The only other thing - and this relates to the book itself... I got left hanging! We get all this mysterious glowing eyes and stuff (like how I'm being non-descriptive? That's to avoid spoilers... read it, you'll know what I mean) and then no real explanation. Frustrating!

Concluding Sentiments...

I'm thrilled to know that I now have more of the Half-Moon Hollow world to read! This was hilarious and I can't wait to go back and pick up with the first book!


Reread August 2016: I'm really glad I reread now that I'm actually familiar with all the characters - I enjoyed it so much more!

[Melanie]

Very cute. There are recipes at the end.

[EBookObsessed]

This was a great short story told by Gigi (who is Iris's little sister) who is home from college for the holidays. It was fun to be back in Half Moon Hollow with the gang.

I guess my biggest problem with this story was the fact that it ended abruptly on Christmas Day with a lot of loose strings. A check of the authors webite/blog showed that she will be writing a complete Gigi story but there is no date yet for the release of the complete story.

So we are left hanging on Gigi's new job with the Vampire counsel and who is Gigi's ghost/vampire/stalker and although he doesn't appear to want to hurt her (yet) why is he following her and who sent him.

Questions, questions, questions but no answers.

If you understand that this is an incomplete story, then you can just enjoy the time spent with these old friends.

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