{"id":4160,"date":"2015-06-11T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T01:39:17","slug":"the-vampire-and-the-virgin-love-at-stake-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4160","title":{"rendered":"The Vampire and the Virgin (Love at Stake, #8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1258955373l\/6545740.jpg\" alt=\"The Vampire and the Virgin (Love at Stake, #8)\" \/>Book 8 in the Love at Stake series gives us another male vampire and female mortal with a gift &#8212; this time she&#8217;s an empath and human lie detector. Apparently she&#8217;s a virgin because no man has ever been completely honest to her. So of course she decides to get together with a vampire who she can&#8217;t read at all. Really?!?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I had trouble suspending disbelief on this one. Partly it was because I feel like the series is stagnating. I can&#8217;t tell Robby apart from any of the other vampires in previous volumes, nor Olivia from the other women. And honestly, if I were a human lie detector and empath, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d fall for a guy in less than a week if I couldn&#8217;t read him. (I mean, maybe over time this would turn out to be a relief or something, although even then &#8230; I don&#8217;t know. I guess I believe in honest men. I married one, after all. Seriously, the man couldn&#8217;t lie to save his life!) <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of hoping we get into more shifters soon. Or that something else happens to move the main plot along. We did meet a couple of fun new characters who might be interesting going forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 8 in the Love at Stake series gives us another male vampire and female mortal with a gift &#8212; this time she&#8217;s an empath and human lie detector. Apparently she&#8217;s a virgin because no man has ever been completely honest to her. So of course she decides to get together with a vampire who [&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-4160","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\/4160","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=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}