The Vampire Shrink (Kismet Knight, Vampire Psychologist, #1)

by Lynda Hilburn

[Linda]

This has a different take on vampires than most popular vampire books around these days. Kismet is a successful psychiatrist, who is very attuned to the emotions of her patients and other people around her. When she gets a new patient - Midnight, a vampire-wannabe - she has to question most of her beliefs. Are there beings different from us humans? For real?

The vampires in this story are still gorgeous, like most vampires we read about are. Devereux is amazing, tall, blonde, auqa-eyes and not too bad for a vampire. Then there's Bryce, who takes his pleasure from killing his food. And humans do not know about vampires either, there has been no 'coming-out' or drinking bottled blood.

The plot is built in a believable way, and the story is quite fast-paced. There is quite a lot of humour, some very nice sex-scenes, and a lot of confusion on Kismet's part. After a two-year dry-spell, she suddenly has several men showing interest in her, and she has to figure out how to deal with that, as well as with the fact that she is starting to believe vampires really do exist.

All of the story is also gravitating around her private psychiatrist practice, and the way she deals with both human and undead clients is great.