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serynInsatiable by Meg Cabot, the same Meg Cabot who wrote The Princess Diaries.
This was intended to be an adult book. There is one sex scene and it is largely implied. The sex in some YA books at my local library is more explicit than this was. Otherwise this is only an adult book because teenagers do not like to read about "old" (32 years old) people who have jobs and responsibilities in the "real" world.
Meena is a woman who got her dream job writing for a soap opera. She lives in New York City, but there's no need for it to be there. It could have been LA very easily, and since Meena talks about how other soaps "sold out" and moved to LA for cheaper filming costs, one really wonders why it was set there. Meena's unemployed brother lives with her. This was also not important and one wonders why he is there.
Meena is a special snowflake, which you knew because her life is fucking perfect and she's the heroine of the novel... but in this case she's able to tell when people are going to die. Always. It makes her a social pariah so she has no real friends except ones from childhood whose lives she saved with her snowflake powers.
Meena's soap sells out because of interpersonal politics and they're going vampire. Meena is sick of vampires in all the shows and books and being everywhere.
Then Meena meets a vampire who just happens not to mention it. She thinks he's amazing because he saves her life and she doesn't feel the need to tell him when he's going to die.
It's obviously not Meena who is sick of vampires but Meg Cabot, since she's pretty much citified the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris.
Anyway. The vampire and Meena get thrown together again at a dinner party. Where Meena whines about work amongst people who have no jobs and have no need of working because they're all very wealthy vampires. No one stares at Meena like she's committing a faux pas. The author has obviously not been the only different one at a dinner party before.
Meena leaves the dinner party with the vampire and they have sex in his apartment.
Then we're introduced to the vampire's villains in the story. The villains are rogue vampires and church employees who not only want to stop rogue vampires but who think all vampires should be killed to make sure there are never any rogues. They torture any captured vampires. Also non-graphically, so at least the author is consistent in her squeamishness.
There are some plot machinations. And we end up with the climactic battle scene whereupon Meena's coworkers are actually vampires on the rogue vampire's side. The rogue vampire is also the hero vampire's brother who wasn't killed after being a hideous monster centuries ago because "family is important".
After this big battle, Meena decides that she doesn't actually like the hero vampire enough so she disses him and goes off to work with the churchy folk who torture vampires.
I could see it ending with her not staying with the vampire. But I can't stomach her siding with the churchy folks and just not talking to the hero vampire anymore. I know everyone ends relationships differently but if you tell yourself you're in love with someone, then you don't just snub them unless you're shallow and a worthless human being. It's so weird that the author is all "family is really important" but jacks any other kind of emotional connection as being disposable.
Crappy childish ending ruined the book, IMO.
On the plus side, the title actually makes sense. It's called after the soap opera show within the book.
This was intended to be an adult book. There is one sex scene and it is largely implied. The sex in some YA books at my local library is more explicit than this was. Otherwise this is only an adult book because teenagers do not like to read about "old" (32 years old) people who have jobs and responsibilities in the "real" world.
Meena is a woman who got her dream job writing for a soap opera. She lives in New York City, but there's no need for it to be there. It could have been LA very easily, and since Meena talks about how other soaps "sold out" and moved to LA for cheaper filming costs, one really wonders why it was set there. Meena's unemployed brother lives with her. This was also not important and one wonders why he is there.
Meena is a special snowflake, which you knew because her life is fucking perfect and she's the heroine of the novel... but in this case she's able to tell when people are going to die. Always. It makes her a social pariah so she has no real friends except ones from childhood whose lives she saved with her snowflake powers.
Meena's soap sells out because of interpersonal politics and they're going vampire. Meena is sick of vampires in all the shows and books and being everywhere.
Then Meena meets a vampire who just happens not to mention it. She thinks he's amazing because he saves her life and she doesn't feel the need to tell him when he's going to die.
It's obviously not Meena who is sick of vampires but Meg Cabot, since she's pretty much citified the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris.
Anyway. The vampire and Meena get thrown together again at a dinner party. Where Meena whines about work amongst people who have no jobs and have no need of working because they're all very wealthy vampires. No one stares at Meena like she's committing a faux pas. The author has obviously not been the only different one at a dinner party before.
Meena leaves the dinner party with the vampire and they have sex in his apartment.
Then we're introduced to the vampire's villains in the story. The villains are rogue vampires and church employees who not only want to stop rogue vampires but who think all vampires should be killed to make sure there are never any rogues. They torture any captured vampires. Also non-graphically, so at least the author is consistent in her squeamishness.
There are some plot machinations. And we end up with the climactic battle scene whereupon Meena's coworkers are actually vampires on the rogue vampire's side. The rogue vampire is also the hero vampire's brother who wasn't killed after being a hideous monster centuries ago because "family is important".
After this big battle, Meena decides that she doesn't actually like the hero vampire enough so she disses him and goes off to work with the churchy folk who torture vampires.
I could see it ending with her not staying with the vampire. But I can't stomach her siding with the churchy folks and just not talking to the hero vampire anymore. I know everyone ends relationships differently but if you tell yourself you're in love with someone, then you don't just snub them unless you're shallow and a worthless human being. It's so weird that the author is all "family is really important" but jacks any other kind of emotional connection as being disposable.
Crappy childish ending ruined the book, IMO.
On the plus side, the title actually makes sense. It's called after the soap opera show within the book.
