Real Vampires Get Lucky (Glory St. Claire, Book 3) [Mass Market Paperback]

Gerry Bartlett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 3, 2008

Third in ?a sizzling new series?( Kimberly Raye, USA Today bestselling author of Dead End Dating) featuring ?a vampire who even Buffy could love? (Romance Review).

When a female loan shark named Lucky is attacked and left for dead, vampire Glory St. Clair turns her into one of the undead to save her??but eternity would have been safer without her. Vamps prefer a low profile, and that?s not Lucky?s style. She prefers to flaunt her sexy rock-star ex-boyfriend and great shoes. Trouble is, her flamboyant behavior is not only drawing every vampire hunter within miles? it?s bringing her would-be killer out of hiding, too.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Hot and hilarious. Glory is everywoman with fangs.”
—Nina Bangs, New York Times bestselling author

“A sharp, sassy, sexy read.”
—Kimberly Raye, USA Today bestselling author of Dead End Dating

“Full-figured vampire Glory bursts from the page in this lively, fun and engaging spin on the vampire mythology.”
—Julie Kenner, USA Today bestselling author --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Author

When I was writing this book I started with the opening line "I smelled blood." It's still one of my favorite openers. Little did I know that the character who was bleeding out in the alley behind Glory St. Clair's shop would cause so much trouble. Hope you enjoy Real Vampires Get Lucky.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (June 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425221547
• ISBN-13: 978-0425221549
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #812,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gerry Bartlett lives in Texas, halfway between Houston and Galveston. Her antique business on the historic Strand on the island is open again after it went under eight feet of water during Hurricane Ike. When she's not treasure hunting for the store, she loves heading to the Texas capitol of Austin where she imagines her vampire Glory St.Clair of the Real Vampire series has her own antique business and vintage clothing shop. You can read more about Gerry and her series at gerrybartlett.com and find links to her fan sites there. She's shown here in her back yard with dog Jet, a whippet. He's her alarm clock and literary muse, keeping her company when she's at the computer. Gerry loves to hear from readers and you can reach her from her web site or by snail mail at P.O. Box 101, League City, TX 77574-0101. She previously wrote as Lynn McKay and you might find her Regency historical available on Amazon too.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glory Gets Lucky, June 13, 2008

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This review is from: Real Vampires Get Lucky (Glory St. Claire, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

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!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining summer read, June 3, 2008

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H. Grove "Errant Dreams Reviews" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Vampires Get Lucky (Glory St. Claire, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally hooked on the genre now!, June 9, 2008

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Finn Taylor "Finn" (Springfield, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Real Vampires Get Lucky (Glory St. Claire, Book 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

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!