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 enlarge | Author: Gerry Bartlett
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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Rating:  9 reviews
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 0425221547
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780425221549
ASIN: 0425221547
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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 Glory Gets Lucky June 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Curvy vampire Glory St. Clair arrives home and smells trouble - Type B kind of trouble. When Glory realizes the human woman with her throat torn open is near death's door, she speed dials the man she begged to turn her into a vamp centuries ago - Jeremy Blade, her on-again, off-again lover, friend, and in this crisis, her only hope of help. Having never made a vampire, Glory is reluctant to bestow eternal undead bliss upon the mortal, but she can't let her die. The woman she makes is Lucky Carver, a surgically enhanced loan shark enforcer and a loose cannon when it comes to vampire rules of discretion.
Glory is feeling anything but lucky when she receives blackmail threats from an unknown fiend who made a video of her changing Ms. Carver. That is until she speaks to Lucky's grateful, mobster daddy who promises her a cool million if she finds his daughter's attacker. She needs the devil's own luck, however, as multiple suspects emerge among the live and the undead.
Gerry Bartlett's third installment of her Real Vampire series is loaded with laughter, suspense, and some hot chemistry between the sassy Glory and her Highlander Hunk. Ms. Bartlett weaves the newest tale so well new readers to the series will never miss a beat. For those who have not read the 1st two books, I highly recommend taking a bite out of Real Vampires Have Curves and Real Vampires Live Large as well. All three are Fangtastic!
Totally hooked on the genre now! June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked up this book at work and thought twice about reading it since I have never read vampire books. To my surprise it was so funny and entertaining I couldn't put it down. Glory is great, just a typical girl into shoes and fashion, plus the whole vamp thing. I went out and bought the other two previous Gerry Bartlett books right away. Great series!
 Entertaining summer read June 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed Ms. Bartlett's Real Vampires Get Lucky. Her heroine, Glory, has commitment issues, big hips, and something of an attitude---in short, for a vampire, she's a heroine many readers will relate to easily.
While I sadly have not read the first two books in the series, and this did make it quite difficult to keep up with the plethora of names that came and went, other than that one thing I found it easy to keep up and figure out what was going on. While the complex community doesn't stand alone entirely well, the story itself does.
That community is part of what makes the book so much fun. The characters are definitely characters, from the shape-shifting bodyguards-for-hire to the vamps of all ages and, for good measure, some interesting mortals. For the most part I really enjoyed the melange of personalities, and only had one real objection: for the love of all that's holy, would authors PLEASE lay off the name-brand shoes and purses? Once in a while or for one or two characters, sure, but it's become the obsession of every female character in way too many books.
There are multiple mysteries to solve (who 'killed' Lucky? Who's blackmailing Glory? Will Glory finally settle down with Jerry or get together with... well, you'll see!), and while I wouldn't say it's the most mind-blowingly tight mystery I've ever seen, for this kind of book it's pretty darn good, and definitely fun to piece together.
There's a will-she-or-won't-she romance that doesn't seem contrived and ridiculous (which is always welcome, as I have little patience for those), and a second attraction for Glory that's fun to watch play out (it comes with a second, rather unexpected plot that I rather enjoyed but don't want to spoil for you). The bedroom scenes between Jerry and Glory (okay, so, few of them actually take place in a bed!) are fun and sexy, explicit and a bit wild without going crazy.
In short, it's a quick, entertaining, breezy read just perfect for the start of summer.
amusing lighthearted vampire lit June 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
By the dumpster in the alley near her shop, Glory St. Clair hears someone gurgling their last breath. She and Valdez the canine protector rush outside to find a young female human dying from the loss of blood caused by a vampire mugging. Unable to resist though only recently being converted from pure blood type B human to vampire universal blood user vampire, Glory does her first turning.
However, Lucky turns out to be more than just lucky to be alive (loose definition). She is a flamboyant loan shark collector for the mob and has some strong family ties. While Glory tries to get Lucky to hide her exhibitionist tendencies and to stop breaking bones, vampire hunters converge on the instructor and her recalcitrant student while Lucky goes after Glory's pals who owe her boss money. Worse Lucky converted her former rock star boyfriend into a vampire to avenge his leaving her. Real vampires get unlucky when the real world intrudes as someone wants Glory dead.
In her third Real Vampire appearance, Glory learns that being an undead does not have as direct path to hell as good intentions. Nothing goes right from the moment she saves Lucky's life. Fans will appreciate this amusing lighthearted entry as the heroine wonders will she live long enough to survive her first conversion.
Harriet Klausner
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