Accidental Sire (Half-Moon Hollow, #9.6)

by Molly Harper

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This was a blend of the good and the bad. It had an interest twist for the series but the romance was sadly lacking.

This story started at the end of Big Vamp on Campus. Meagan Keene was just a co-ed in the new mixed vamp/human hall at Kentucky University until the night she was in the wrong place at the wrong time when she was hit in the chest with a 45-lb free weight being used by the vamps in a game of ultimate frisbee. Things had just been looking up for Meagan. She only had a few more classes until graduation and a cute boy named, Ben, was just asking her out.

Next thing she knows, she wakes up and is snacking on the sweet boy who could have been her boyfriend. When he suddenly collapses, no one knows yet if he will wake up turned or never wake again.

Becoming a vampire is more than enough of a shock but apparently nothing is going “normal” with Meagan’s transformation, and vampires aren’t known for liking change. Some it seems are still holding out an opinion on that whole “electricity” thing. Meagan shouldn’t have been up yet. Vampires rise in three days not 24 hours. And they shouldn’t be able to turn another person without a blood exchange. And what the hell is up with Meagan’s two sets of fangs?

Not knowing what to expect, and not being able to risk Meagan controlling her bloodlust and not changing the whole student body in one afternoon, Jane Jameson-Nightengale has Meagan under lock-down confinement at her home in Half Moon Hollow, soon to be joined by the newest vampire, Ben Hanscomb.

While most of the vamps who know about Meagan and Ben are worried what their differences mean to vamps in general, the scientists at the Vampire Counsel are peeing themselves with excitement to see just how different these new vamps are from the standard vampire.

This new twist breathes new life into the series, and gives reason for all prior Half-Moon Hollow residents to show up in this story, but the romance which was set between Meagan and Ben at the end of Big Vamp on Campus falls flat in this novel.

Ben spends most of the book holding a grudge against Meagan for messing up his life plans by turning him into a vampire, but he was the first one calling for a vampire sire when Meagan was dying, giving no worries for the changes it would be bringing to her life. Yes, it wasn’t something he chose, even though he was friends with all vampires in this town, but Meagan didn’t do it to him on purpose and it took him way to long to get past it. By the time he does, he has to get over it quickly since we were almost finished with the story and therefore, it ended up being too little, too late to give us any real romance.

Molly Harper’s usual snarky fun was seen throughout the story. Ben and Meagan’s unusual turning and trying to discover the facts behind it all made for an interesting story. This one just lacked a good romance.