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| Last of the Red-hot Vampires, The | 
 enlarge | Author: Katie Macalister
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 15579
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0451220854
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451220851
ASIN: 0451220854
Publication Date: April 3, 2007
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 Supernatural Romance August 21, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's a park your brain, bring to the seaside book. Very readable but if you start to look at it critically it will fall apart.
Portia Harding sits in a fairy circle and does an incantation, prompted by a friend, to prove that there's nothing to this supernatural lark. And boy is she wrong. Now she finds herself embroiled in supernatural politics and being very attracted to a vampire.
He's not really all that much of a vampire and sometimes the story felt a lot forced but it's not a bad book to spend some time with.
 Vampire ??? July 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Physicist Portia Harding's life is grounded in facts. There is nothing that can't be explained by logic and science ... until she travels with her best friend to England and accidentally summons an ethereal virtue who bequeaths her gift of weather control to Portia.
New Portia is walking around with a literal cloud over her head and a heart-stoppingly handsome maniac trying to kidnap her. But Theondre North is no run-of-the-mill lunatic. He's a nephilim - the son of an angel - whoneeds Portia's help to change his fate. Problem is, Portia's down-to-earth attitude frustrates being from both heavenly and hellish realms, and gets Theo turned into a vampire. But at least he has Portia to satisfy his newfound hunger ... and possibly save his soul. "
Even though I found this book very entertaining and amusing, I was very close to giving it 4 stars. And the reason is ....
The first 4 books in Katie MacAlister's Paranormals (A Girl's Guide To Vampires", "Sex and the Single Vampire", "Sex, Lies, And Vampires", "Even Vampires Get The Blues") are absolutely fantastic and actually about vampires. But this one, nothing of the sort....
But again .... the story is very interesting, amusing and engaging. Most of the characters are supernatural beings, there is quite a lot of "traveling" between worlds and of course there is romance.
If you are a type of a reader that pays immense attention to every detail concerning, for example, the historical parts of the story or any other descriptive flaws of the surroundings/characters etc., than I would definitely advise you to stay away. This books is just pure fun and light entertainment. So fans of paranormal mysteries/romance, and of course fans of Katie, go ahead and buy this book and enjoy it :)
Vampire and Sceptic together on a quest June 7, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
The rather misleadingly-titled "The Last Of The Red Hot Vampires" is a warning not to holiday in England - you never know what you might bump into when sitting in a fairy circle in the West Country. Portia Harding, a thorough sceptic with a scientific mind, is holidaying with her friend Sarah when Sarah poses a wager that Portia will find something that she can't explain rationally and so will have to admit to belief in the paranormal. Portia is confident that she'll win the wager and so the two of them plan to visit haunted houses, seances, a fairy ring, that kind of thing.
Our heroine is both very intelligent and very dense - intelligent in book-knowledge, dense in her initial inability to face up to the fact that some strange supernatural things are going on around her which cannot be explained rationally. Fortunately by a third of the way through the book she has accepted that she's right in the middle of some strange stuff and instead gets involved in her Trials, seven tasks she has to complete to prove that she is worthy to be a 'virtue', something that was passed on to her without her knowledge. However her trials have now become more complicated as she is now responsible for the fact that the hero in the story, Theo, a Nephilim (surely the singular is a Nephil?) has had his soul removed and is now a vampire; Portia thinks she may be able to help Theo to get his soul back so this is the cause of another quest.
Although a love story (supposedly) it felt more like a lust story with the main attraction of Theo to Portia being his looks although he apparently likes her for her character, which was appealing once she got over her inability to accept the supernatural events which were plaguing her, although she also foolishly jumps into things and ignores others' warnings which isn't particularly endearing. The reader doesn't really get to see them fall in love, they just suddenly find themselves there and pretty thoroughly in love too. Some of the conversation between hero and heroine was toe-curlingly cheesy, particularly from this English reader's point of view although it might be more bearable to American readers.
The setting in England is enjoyable although the author makes some rather basic mistakes (she suggests we use kilometres rather than miles for road distance measurements, she has a local character named Milo, for example) but she writes with evident affection about some of the more unusual west-country people and places. Although there was a fair amount of plot in this story the subsidiary characters weren't particularly fleshed out and we didn't really get to understand what made these people tick. There was lots of explanation of events and of the supernatural world but little true depth in the characters who were carrying us through the story.
And the misleading title? The Vampirism that afflicts Theo is a minimal part of the story, he's not described as 'red hot' and indeed doesn't really behave in that way, and he's not the last of vampires as far as we know, we learn little about vampires at all in this story. For those who were attracted to 'Vampire' in the title this story may be a disappointment, being more about the supernatural and completing a quest, but for those who want a light read this book serves reasonably.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book, www.curledup.com. Helen Hancox 2007
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