Undead and Uneasy (Queen Betsy, Book 6) (Hardcover)

by MaryJanice Davidson (Author) "There are three things wrong with that card," the king of the vampires told me..." (more)
Key Phrases: vampire queen, double funeral, bridal shop, Book of the Dead, Wedding Ring Asshole, Betsy Taylor (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Wishes come true with unforeseen consequences in bestseller Davidson's anemic sixth Undead paranormal romance (after 2006's Undead and Unpopular). Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor discovers that even weddings with a $3 million budget can be a killer to plan [...]. Sixteen months earlier, Betsy was a secretary dreading her 30th birthday. Now she's a bad-ass vampire queen betrothed to Eric Sinclair, wealthy 70-something Vampire King. Betsy must [...] worry about Jessica, her seriously ill best friend, while trying to find the guests and groom before the wedding date is past. Marred by a sometimes too-cute narrative, this novel lacks the substance of the work of Charlaine Harris or Marta Acosta, hurtling to a "feel good" resolution that may please Davidson's fans but will leave others wondering why this series continues to thrive.
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From Booklist
With only a few weeks to go before the vampire royal wedding, Betsy has still not found a dress. Then, when her father and her stepmother are immolated in a garbage-truck disaster, nobody is there to hold Betsy's hand at the funeral. Her inner circle seems to have disappeared. Sinclair appears to have taken off in a snit. Jessica is in the hospital. Tina is in France meeting with the European vamps. Besty's sister, the Spawn of Satan, is being totally unsympathetic, and the bitchy werewolf Antonia and her boyfriend, Garrett, the onetime feral vampire fiend, have disappeared. On top of all this, Betsy has to care for her baby brother. So what's a girl to do when a pack of Wyndham werewolves shows up at her door and she realizes something is really wrong? Fans of Davidson's reluctant vampire queen will be thrilled with the latest in the series, a tale filled with breezy dialogue, kick-ass action, and endearing characters. Tixier Herald, Diana
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover (June 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425213765
• ISBN-13: 978-0425213766
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,592 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 6 in The Queen Betsy ("Undead") Series.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All Betsy - all the time!, June 5, 2007

By	M. Benno "likes2bake" (Northern NJ, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This episode of the Betsy the Vampire series (book 6) is all about Betsy. Just Betsy. While the other friends make almost guest appearances, this book shows Betsy's maturing as a Vampire Queen, and how she is coming into her own in the world of vampire diplomacy. This book is different from the other books in the series in this way. Betsy is still charming, funny, annoying, and vain, but she is a force to be reckoned with who is ever under-estimated by others. I agree with another reviewer that the Editorial reviews give away way too much plot, so I am reticent to discuss particular details of the book for fear of even more spoilers. But I liked the book due to its advancement of the overall plot and the underlying message that Betsy is Queen --and no one to mess with.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Vampire Vows, August 13, 2007

By	Cherise Everhard (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Betsy Taylor, Queen of the Vampires, is down to the wire on the wedding plans; she has just two weeks to the big day and she has yet to pick out a wedding dress. Her groom isn't being very helpful, Sinclair feels that the wedding is unnecessary as the Book of the Dead already recognizes them as married. He is getting grumpy and Betsy and he are not getting along.

While she finalizes the plans she faces one of her biggest obstacles to date. Unfortunately when Betsy needs everyone the most, no one is there for her; everyone has disappeared, leaving the Queen of the Vampires alone. Betsy is forced to fend for herself for the first time since she woke up Undead.

The best part of this book to me was the visiting Werewolves. While Betsy struggles through her days solo, we get an unexpected visit from Antonia's Werewolf family, the Wyndhams. The initial meeting between Betsy, Michael, Jeannie, Lara and Derik, was hilarious and fun. I hope they make a habit of appearing as I have missed them.

While I enjoyed this book, I couldn't love it like I have all the other Undead books. With Betsy's eclectic entourage MIA, the story was missing a lot of the laughs and action each of them usually draw. I really felt the void each character's absence left.

The ending was a bit anticlimactic to me and I couldn't help muttering "duh!" when Betsy finally put the pieces together. There was also a bit of unfinished business; Derik has an odd reaction to BabyJon and we never find out why. This is still very good read but not quite the great read I am used to by Ms. Davidson or this series. I gave this a 4 star rating, but I would say it is more 3 ½ stars.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Has its moments, July 19, 2007

By	Neker (Duson, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews

I'll admit it was better than the previous one, but still not as funny as the first. Weird things are happening two weeks before the wedding. Basically, everyone has disappeared. And yet, Betsy has no idea that something is wrong. She assumes they have abandoned her or are pouting off somewhere for something or other. Not until the Antonia's werewolf pack comes to visit and attempts to kick her a** into admitting where Antonia is. Then she begins to wonder, hmm, maybe Sinclair and Antonia, and pretty much everyone else really is missing or kidnapped, etc.

What bothers me about his book so much is that the action is flat. Every book lately seems to be about nothing important, just the daily goings on of Betsy Talyor. Even a book that could be about something, is written the same way. Betsy doesn't know or admit to there being any wrongdoing, therefore, ho, hum, wake up, feed the baby, visit friends, buy shoes, etc. Borrrring stuff. Secondly, Betsy is a winy b***h. She is the epitome of the stupid blond popular girl in school (at age 30?) who assumes the world revolves around her. Any yet, supposedly EVERYBODY who comes across her loves her? Then she has the nerve to put down her step-mother as being the same type.

Sorry, but it is so hard to enjoy a book when you can't help but hate the character. I read the first 170 pages, scanned and read the last 40. I don't feel as though I missed anything important.