Waking up in a tacky coffin and wearing off-brand shoes, Betsy Taylor can't believe the horrible turn her life has taken; then she discovers she's a vampire. Soon, Betsy becomes a participant in a power struggle between the forces of darkness. With only her friend Jessica and the hunky vampire Sinclair to help her, this new "Queen of Vampires" will have a tough time getting her afterlife straight.

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Christi

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2023

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This book is just as awesome as I remembered it being! I read it when it was released originally & I loved it then.

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rebekah e.

Good read if you want something light.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2023

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It’s a light read with some whitty banter and written in the characters voice so you really feel like you can connect with her. It is a little face paced however but that’s generally how light reads go. I remember reading it when I was in 7th grade (bookworm with unfettered access to the library I read a lot) and chose to reread again. Spice level I would give it a 3/5.

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Maree LaRue

Delightful for lack of pretension

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2022

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I read this book over a decade ago and found it a silly, slightly sexy vampire romp. It definitely lived up to my expectations. MaryJanice Davidson has a unique idea and relatably silly characters.

The story is told from Elizabeth "Betsy" Taylor's first-person POV as she navigates her newly undead life. I was entertained by her commentary of all the inconveniences and small details of transitioning from living to vampire. Well, vampire queen.

The book was written in 2004 and is set in Minneapolis so there are a few dated phrases, technology, and regional references. But overall it still holds up pretty well!

There is plenty of cursing, some over-narrated and rambunctious sexy scenes. It's barely erotic when you're in Betty's head. I enjoy her banter with Sinclair, her bond with Jessica (great diversity jokes) and the burgeoning vampire culture.

Ready to dive back in and finish the series this time!

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RedEntrapy

Great Romantic Comedy!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2013

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Ok so this book had me in stitches through most of it. I do have to say that the heroine is both hilarious and the most annoying person in the whole world and I totally loved her for it.

The plot is about a women who is attacked one night on her way home from eating out. She is attacked and bitten a bunch of times. A month later she is hit by a car and is killed only to wake up in a coffin in a morgue. She can't figure out why she is still walking and talking but dead. She meets many new people and uses her snarky wit, and talking to much to annoy answers out of everyone she runs into. One vampire is trying to kill her and the other is trying to help her but both are deceitful and she doesn't know who to trust. She finds out that she is brave, if a little vain, that she can still love even without a heart beat, and that she has a strength of will she never knew she possessed.

In this book we watch Betsy change and grow into a powerful, beautiful, snarky, and sometimes annoying vampire. Her friend Jessica was epic. She is feisty and black, and I loved her. Marc is Betsy's gay roommate and doctor extraordinaire. Sinclair is trying to keep her safe and alive. He is totally gorgeous, but a pompous ass. Tina is my favorite, she is Betsy's best vampire friend, she is there to help Betsy in everything. Nostro the bad guy is an incredible creep, and a total psychopath. He is the villain and I love him as a villain. He makes Dracula look like a saint.

The plot was cliche and a little too predictable but it was fun and the characters made it fun to read anyways. I can't wait to read the second one.

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A poor attempt to copy other author's ideas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2011

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I purchased this book on a recommendation from Amazon because I read Charlaine Harris, Karen Chance, Patrica Briggs, Jeaniene Frost and Ann Rice. I gave it two stars because it did make me laugh in the beginning. But that soon stopped and it just irritated me to the point that I couldn't wait to finish the book and I will never buy another in this series.

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I liked the humans more than the vampires. The main character Betsy is so shallow, ignorant, juvenile, and sarcastic, it spoils the book. I liked Mom, Marc and Jess. The humans. Their character development was better. I did not like that Betsy became a vampire months after a weird attack but nothing was explained about how she became a vampire. She just died and woke a vampire. The leading male character, Sinclair is not explained to the reader. He is drop dead gorgeous of course, well dressed and extremely large in the man bits department, and he is madly in love with Betsy and I could not figure out why. She never has a nice word to say to him in the entire book. She is rude, crude and obnoxious to him in every scene. It was only in the very end that the author gives a clue why he might be interested, he wants to be king.

I could not understand why Betsy was given extra powers, that is never explained either. She can go days without feeding, she can walk in the sun, she can go to church, but she can't talk with her fangs down. She can't fight. She can't keep her nature a secret. She is a terrible vampire. But she is queen. A newly dead vamp who knows nothing about anything, and she is a queen.

Betsy's sarcasm becomes so irritating. She sounds like she is in junior high school with expressions like, Jeez, ewwwww, yuck, Duh, yippee skippy, say it don't spray it, and glkkk, what ever that means. She so immature that the first thing she sees when she meets someone is their clothes and shoes. She is so superficial it's irritating to a point that you want to scream. She notices everyone's shoes and name brands are thrown out everywhere. Forget it if you are the poor girl wearing the "gap knock offs". She agrees to join Sinclair and friends in a battle, but only after being bribed with shoes. At first is was no way, then they pull out designer shoes and she agrees. Very superficial, to the point of stupidity.

As I was reading, I felt like the author read as many books in the supernatural genre as she could, and stole as many ideas as she could from more popular authors. This does not help the author in anyway because she doesn't seem good enough to put it together. She uses words like "dead until dark", which Charlaine Harris uses much better in her books. The two main sex scenes are like Laurell K. Hamilton, poorly written and not exciting in anyway. One has multiple partners and the other scene has an audience. Sinclair is inhumanly large, just like LKH's male characters. I felt like Ms. Davidson was trying to re-write the Sookie Stackhouse novels with a female lead that was tall and beautiful and she becomes a vampire queen. But Betsy is not like Sookie.

I would not recommend this book or series to anyone. If you like the above listed authors don't bother. There is no details about the vampire society. It is all about superficial Betsy and her two human friends. Friends she does not deserve in anyway possible. If you have a shoe fetish, you might like the book for all the shoe descriptions. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

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Kay D

Bite Me should be the title of this fun novel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2021

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Our book club chose this novel for a fun mid-month read. I really enjoyed reading about reluctant snarky Queen Betsy who flies by the seat of her pants in just about every decision she makes. I feel the author really did a good job of creating this world where the living and dead cohabitate. She created some very vivid secondary characters, both good guys as well as bad guys.

There were a few things that were a bit too much for me: too many f-bombs, vampire bitings and what goes with it, but that’s just not my cup of tea. I did not allow these to lessen my enjoyment of the overall story.

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titiprime

every stories have a begining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 10, 2013

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Superficial and supernatural, hilarious chick lit novel. Betsy Taylor returns again in Davidson's book in the 'Undead' series. It's the same airhead, shoe obsessed queen of the vampires we met in the first novel.

Betsy is a former model and is still a fashion fanatic. At the start of the series, on the morning of her disastrous 30th birthday, she is working as a secretary. Her main interests are designer shoes, designer clothes, and her cat. In quick succession she gets fired, loses her cat, and is killed in a car accident. It is a great surprise to her when she rises again as a most unusual vampire. It is even more of a surprise when, through a sequence of bizarre events, she becomes queen of the vampires.

Needless to say vampire politics of the same nasty kind interfere with her life, but our heroine wins through in the end, displaying unexpected strength and compassion. A light weight book, but very funny.

Still laugh-out-loud funny. I raced through this book cover to cover, loving Betsy's ditzy and self-obsessed attempt to adjust.

For those who are not aware of the series, here the list of Queen Betsy stories I read to date:

1) "Undead and Unwed (Undead Series)"
2) "Undead and Unemployed (Undead Series)"
3) "Undead and Unappreciated (Undead Series)"
4) "Undead and Unreturnable (Undead Series)"
5) "Undead and Unpopular (Undead 5)"
6) "Undead and Uneasy"
7) "Undead and Unworthy (Undead 7)"
8) "Undead and Unwelcome (Undead 8)"
9) "Undead and Unfinished"
10) "Undead and Undermined (Undead/Queen Betsy)"

In my opinion you will get most out of these books if you read them in order. I would start with "Undead and Unwed" and work on from there. Know there are more recent book but have not read them yet.

It is not a great literature and it does not pretend to be (I think that was clearly established from the first book) so I find the negative reviews a bit petulant to be honest, you can't start moaning about short chapters, bad writing and unlike-able characters after 9 books into a 10 book series.

If you want an easy read novel a decent story and have some laugh then go for it.

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Marshall Lord

Amusing comic tale of Chick Lit and Vampires

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 6, 2007

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This entertaining vampire romance is the first of a series which incongruously combines chick lit romantic comedy and vampire thriller - from the viewpoint of a new vampire. The first line of the book is "The day I died started out bad and got worse in a hurry."

It begins the "Queen Betsy" comic vampire series, in which the initial group of stories consists of the following six books:

1) Undead and Unwed
2) " Undead and Unemployed (Undead Series) "
3) " Undead and Unappreciated (Undead Series) "
4) " Undead and Unreturnable (Undead Series) "
5) " Undead and Unpopular (Undead 5) "
6) " Undead and Uneasy ".

There is also a "Queen Betsy" novella, set at about the same time as book six, in Davidson's collection " Dead Over Heels ," one of the three paranormal romance stories in that volume, and another in the similar collection "Undead and Underwater."

There is also a follow-up series, which MJD describes as "a new story arc" featuring the same central characters, begining two months after the events of both "Undead and Uneasy" and "Dead over Heels".

The follow-up "Queen Betsy" series consists as at December 2013 of

7) " Undead and Unworthy (Undead 7) "
8) " Undead and Unwelcome (Undead 8)
9) " Undead and Unfinished (Undead Series) ".
10) " Undead and Undermined "
11) "Undead and Unstable"
12) "Undead and Unsure"

"Undead and Unwed" is told in the first person by Elizabeth Taylor, who prefers to be called Betsy for obvious reasons. Betsy is a former model and is still a fashion fanatic: at the start of the book, on the morning of her disastrous 30th birthday, she is working as a secretary. Her main interests are designer shoes, designer clothes, and her cat. In quick succession she gets fired, loses her cat, and is killed in a car accident. It is a great surprise to her when she rises again as a most unusual vampire.

Mary Davidson has great fun with the incongruity of mixing up the vampire genre as in Laurell Hamilton's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series (or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Chick-Lit romantic comedy. This book is way over the top and very funny. Perhaps the author goes slightly too far when she has a group of rebel vampires bribe Betsy to take on the local evil Master Vampire by offering her a neat line in designer shoes, but the book is always good fun.

An interesting comparison with other authors who have written entertaining comedies by combining incongruous genres would be with Marianne Mancusi and Robert Frezza.

In the same way that this book gets plenty of laughs by combining chick lit with Vampires, Frezza write two very funny books which combined Vampires and Science Fiction ("McLendon's Syndrome" and "The VMR Theory") and Mancusi combined chick lit with time travel in "A Connecticut Fashionista at King Arthur's Court" and "A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest." Anyone who likes this book is likely to enjoy all four of those, and vice versa, if you have read and enjoyed one of those books you may well enjoy this one.

OK, this is never going to win the Booker Prize or any other great award for classic literature, and it is fairly raunchy, so not suitable for children. However, if you have the right sort of sense of humour, it is pretty good fun. I can recommend "Undead and Unwed" and also enjoyed reading the rest of the series.

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lankylil

Great read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 29, 2011

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What a brilliant book! I was captured by the story from the first page and found it hard to put my Kindle down! The book is incredibly funny (Betsy/Elizabeth is more interested in her designer shoes than learning Vampire lore). She is ballsy & spirited and forever telling her fellow Vampires to "F### off". She is a very likeable heroine, that kept me laughing but also gained my sympathy ~ she has to deal with unexpectedly becoming one of the undead, a Vampire Queen and having her own Father wish that she really were dead! The characters in the book are great! Betsy's Mum is Mrs Cool & Collected when she finds out that she has a vampire for a daughter ~ though she tells Vampire Eric Sinclair that she will "lamp" him one if he tries any "funny business". Betsy's nasty Step~Mum takes her beloved designer shoes ~ but instead of biting her Vampire~style, Betsy whacks her and then liquidizes all her jewellery! This book has it all ~ action, good, well developed characters, emotive writing (I felt awful for Betsy when she had to deal with what her Dad felt about her), and lots of humour (I loved how Eric finally managed to persuade Betsy to join the upcoming battle).

The book isn't designed for people that are easily offended, as it contains a lot of swearing and erotica, including 4 in a bed, 3 in a bath, masturbation, homosexuality and an extremely graphic but VERY erotic underwater sex scene. However, I am not easily offended and I thought it a great read and I will buying more of the series.

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Rachel M (real person not a robot)

Terrible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 23, 2020

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Just god awful. Boring plot, I only got to 45% of this book on my kindle before I gave up. I haven't read such a bad book in years. Main character is a vapid woman who somehow is an almighty "prophesied" vampire overnight. Main love affair is some giant 'male appendage' wielding sexaholic. I just couldn't go any further with it and have no idea how it's got such high reviews.

Half-Pence

If you like chick lit - you'll like this series!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 23, 2013

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I picked up the third book in the series and read it not realising it was a series. Liked it so much I had to hunt down the first so I could start it from the beginning! It's best to follow Queen Betsy's adventures from the beginning so you get all the references, great book - and its really refreshing to get a more comical look at the undead world, this author doesn't take herself too seriously or her subject too matter which make for a very delightful and uncomplicated read!! One of several books I have on my rotation on my kindle!

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