{"id":4156,"date":"2015-06-04T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T01:25:41","slug":"book-review-secret-life-of-a-vampire-love-at-stake-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Secret Life of a Vampire (Love at Stake, #6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1322237614l\/4311773.jpg\" alt=\"Secret Life of a Vampire (Love at Stake, #6)\" \/>The undead son of Cassinova has quite a reputation to live up to! <\/p>\n<p>Jack meets Lara when he throws a bachelor party for Ian and things get a bit out of control. Lara, a police officer, is called to the disturbance. It shouldn&#8217;t have been a big deal. All Jack had to do was erase her memory. It worked fine on her partner. And the paramedics. And hotel security &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But Lara won&#8217;t forget, and she can&#8217;t get Jack out of her mind. When a student goes missing from a local university and her roommate shows signs of memory loss, Lara hopes Jack isn&#8217;t at fault &#8212; and that he can help her find answers.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that while the silliness of guessing what Jack was (alien, bionic man, lizard man, etc.) kept me entertained, I&#8217;m getting a bit weary of the fact that a man is a vampire is the main romantic conflict. It might work better if the women&#8217;s responses were significantly different from one another.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to see some movement of the overarching plot. Time to kill the big bad guy and find a bigger badder guy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But the charm of this series does continue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undead son of Cassinova has quite a reputation to live up to! Jack meets Lara when he throws a bachelor party for Ian and things get a bit out of control. Lara, a police officer, is called to the disturbance. It shouldn&#8217;t have been a big deal. All Jack had to do was erase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,62,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-mysterysuspense","category-romance-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}