Real Vamps Don't Drink O-neg [Paperback]

Tawny Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2008

Although Sophie Hahn works as a paranormal researcher, she doesn't believe in ghosts, werewolves, or anything to do with the supernatural world. But when it appears that her best friend Dao is slowly being killed by a female vampire, her beliefs are put to the test. Dao's new wife is the prime suspect, though she doesn't look capable of hurting a fly, let alone sucking the life out of someone. On the other hand, watching Dao wither away to nothing isn't a option. So if Sophie has to go vampire hunting, she'll do it...

Editorial Reviews

Review

REAL VAMPS DON'T DRINK O-NEG is a hilarious, wacky paranormal romance that will keep you chuckling through the entire tale. The plot is wonderfully convoluted and you never really suspect what is going to happen next. -- Romance Junkies

The story line is fast-paced from the first moment Sophie and Ric meet and never slows down until the last blood drips. -- Alternative Worlds

With an intriguing plot, engaging characters and passionate love scenes, this story has it all. -- Darque Reviews --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Author

"Absolutely delicious! A fantastic book that will keep you reading all night long." Gena Showalter --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Kensington; Reprint edition (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075821510X
• ISBN-13: 978-0758215109
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,005,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tawny Taylor has been writing erotica for women for ten years. Her first erotic romance, Tempting Fate, was published in 2004 and was an RT Reviewer's Choice nominee and highly reviewed book. To date, Tawny has over 50 published books by 5 publishers, including Pocket, Kensington, Ellora's Cave, Samhain and Changeling Press. They include several subgenres of erotica and erotic romance including paranormal, menage, contemporary, and romantic/erotic suspense. Many of her books contain D/s, bondage, and domination and submission. Among her best selling books are Dark Master (Vampire, BDSM), Decadent Master (Vampire, BDSM), and Wrath's Embrace (Menage, BDSM).

Tawny is grateful to her readers for allowing her dream of writing and publishing to come true. Her hope is to continue to write hot, sassy, sexy erotica for women for many years to come.

Tawny loves hearing from readers! Drop her a note anytime:[e-mail].
website: http://www.tawnytaylor.com
Twitter: @tawnytauthor
Blog: http://tawnytaylor.net

Did you know Tawny also writes romance as Sydney Allan and Urban Fantasy as Tami Dane?

Sydney's Books
Rescue Me (contemporary romance)

Tami's Books
About Monday
The Real Werewives of Vampire County
Blood of Eden

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fast Paced and Charming, November 1, 2009

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Amy Rich "amyerich" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Vamps Don't Drink O-neg (Paperback)

I was surprised at how funny this book was.Though I hid the cheesy cover from my friends, I really enjoyed this book. I laughed out loud numerous times and couldn't help but love the steamy lovin!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unexciting, September 4, 2007

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Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Vamps Don't Drink O-Neg (Paperback)

The number of new vampire-themed stories being published each month seems to continue to increase and consequently all the amusing book titles have already been snapped up. "Real Vamps Don't Drink O-Neg" is the rather clumsy title for a book which doesn't ever discuss O-Neg, or even what 'Real vampires' are, apart from the fact that in the story heroine Sophie Hahn doesn't believe in them, or anything else unusual. That's until she discovers that the new wife of her friend Dao seems to have shed a snake scale. Fortunately her boss knows all about this kind of thing, Dao's wife is a Lamia (a snake-like vampire) who is sucking the life out of Dao. There's only one way to rescue Dao and that's with some strange ancient Hebrew artefacts so Sophie goes to her local library to look them up.

There she bumps into Ric Vogel (another German avian surname, 'Hahn' meaning cockerel and 'Vogel' meaning bird) who is a College Professor and rather dishy. He already has the book she needs in his hands and won't give it up so she ends up agreeing to go for a drink with him. However a scary experience of a vampire biting her during the night forces her to reconsider her preconceptions about supernatural creatures and she ends up teaming up with Ric to find the artefacts. There's more to Ric than first meets the eye, however, and soon Sophie finds herself caught between trusting two vampires who keep secrets from her.

The underlying plot (searching for the Hebrew artefacts) becomes rather ignored at times for the sex scenes, then picked up again. Neither Sophie nor Ric seem to have a great deal going for them except for physical attributes and, in Sophie's case, bravery (foolhardiness?) The book never really grabbed my attention and the characters seemed too shallow. The final denouement was a damp squib with a few attempts at plot twists that didn't really feel comfortable. It seems the real point of the book was the sex scenes, some of which contained elements that many traditional readers of paranormal romances might find distasteful. Perhaps the book might have been more successful if it tried to include a little of the humour of the title or, alternatively, concentrated more on the plot and characterisation and less on descriptions of sex acts.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book, [...]. © Helen Hancox 2007

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ghastly, Horrible Waste of Time. I HATED it!, January 12, 2008

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Sandy Kay (Twin Cities, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Vamps Don't Drink O-Neg (Paperback)

Words cannot express how much I hated this book. Well, actually they can: I wrote a review immediately after I read it explaining in detail why I thought it was so awful but that review has disappeared. Hmmmm. I wonder why.

Another reviewer calls the book "erotic." I disagree unless you like the throwback to the old style romances where the heroine has the Big O while being sexually assaulted against her will. That occurred during the first supposedly erotic scene and the assaulter wasn't even the "hero." That's creepy, not erotic. Later in the book, the hero pushes the heroine to do something she doesn't want -- and again she climaxes. Unacceptable. None of the sex scenes were erotic or sexy, IMHO.

The plot is uninspired and full of holes so the book wouldn't be worth reading even if you skipped all the creepy sex scenes.

I picked up the book because the title made me think it would be amusing and romantic. It wasn't. I would give this book 0 stars if I could.