Accidental Sire (Half-Moon Hollow, #9.6)

by Molly Harper

[Melanie]

My review and an extended sample of the audiobook are posted at Hotlistens.com.

I’m a huge fan of of the Half-Moon Hollows series. This series is always able to make me laugh. They are fun and quick reads that I know will put me in my happy place. This one is exactly what I expected from this series. It was exactly what I needed when I started this story (which I listened to in a single day).

So this story starts off at University of Kentucky with Meagan Keene (who we met in Big Vamp on Campus). She is friends with Ophelia (can you believe she has friends??). She was talking with Ben Overby at a party. Just moments later, she is hit with a 45 pound barbell that was being used for Ultimate Frisbee by some vamps. She accepts being turned into vamp instead of dying, which is what would’ve happened. A guy named James Marsters (love the Buffy reference here, though I’ll admit that the name makes me think more of Harry Dresden than Spike) offers to turn her and then disappears. Problem is that this isn’t normal. Meagan wakes up way too soon. She also bites Ben when he was visiting her (while she should be dead to the world). He is turned too, which shouldn’t happen.

So in this story, Jane has to figure out what is going on. She takes Meagan and Ben back to her place to keep an eye on them until everyone figures out what is going on and they are able to control themselves around humans. They are both working for Jane at the council. The scientist doctor there has an unhealthy obsession with figuring them.

This was another fun addition to the series. I loved seeing Jane and the gang again. Georgie has a larger presence in this story, which I really enjoyed. I liked Meagan and Ben’s story. I liked the mystery as they searched for why Meagan and Ben are different from all vampires before them. There are a ton of fun one-liners that made laugh out loud several times (as in all Molly Harper books).

Narration
I love Amanda Ronconi’s narration of this series. She is perfect for this series. She really brings out the humor between the characters. I can’t even imagine reading this series. I started off with audiobooks and I don’t see that ever changing. If you haven’t tried this series on audio, I highly recommend it.