Bite Me Your Grace
Brooklyn Ann
April 2, 2013
Sourcebooks Casablanca
ARC courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca via Netgalley
Let me start by saying that I love historical romance and I love paranormal romance so when I read the synopsis for this book and saw that it combined both my loves I knew this was the book for me. This book has vampires, strong female heroine, and of course steamy romance. If you are like me what's not to love about this book. I have to say that I really liked Bite Me Your Grace. It was kind of cheesy but in a good way kind of like Dracula Dead and Loving It. I found my smiling at some of the silly antics and swooning at others.London's Lord Vampire Has Problems
Dr. John Polidori's tale "The Vampyre" burst upon the Regency scene along with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein after that notorious weekend spent writing ghost stories with Lord Byron.
A vampire crazy broke out instantly in the haut ton.
Now Ian Ashton, the Lord Vampire of London, has to attend tedious balls, linger in front of mirrors, and eat lots of garlic in an attempt to quell the gossip.
If that weren't annoying enough, his neighbor, Angelica Winthrop has literary aspirations of her own and is sneaking into his house at night just to see what she can find.
Hungry, tired, and fed up, Ian is in no mood to humor his beautiful intruder...
Angelica is a granddaughter of an Earl and as such she is expected to marry in her station. Angelica wants to write Gothic horror stories like her idol Mary Shelly. That is just so gouache of a woman in her station, who ever heard of a free thinking woman. A woman that wants to break the chains of society. One day she breaks into her neighbor's house and Lord of Vampires and a Duke Ian catches her. Thinking she is a thief he bites her. Now Ian has a problem all of London already gossips that he is vampire and now his neighbor knows the truth. Since she is compromised he agrees to marry her.
Again I liked this book and some of Angelica's schemes to embarrass her finance made me smile and some laugh out loud. This book was funny at time, full of heart, and yes a little cheesy. I liked that Ian and Angelica were able to put their pride aside and realize that they love each other. There were times when I wanted to knock their heads together because they were so hard headed and being stupid. I don't know if this was supposed to be funny but the way word vampire and her love were so dramatic and silly that it made it laugh on more than one occasion.
In conclusion, I ended up really liking Bite Me Your Grace and stayed up late to finish it. I recommend to fans of historical romance and paranormal romance. This book looked like it was being set up for a series so I look forward to more tales of Ian's vampire friends. I give this book four very solid laser pistols.
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