The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires by Molly Harper

If you're looking for a trope-free human & vampire PNR. She would be a teenager that I could like. She tried to get away with things, but needed boundaries. She made wise cracking jokes, but also showed her vulnerable kid side. She was probably my favorite because she felt like a real person to me. Gigi, the sister, was a great side character. We get to learn his backstory - that he was alive in the Trojan War. Cal is not as multi-dimensional as Iris, but better than some of the male love interests in these kind of books. Of course, this starts up a romance and danger. He pays Iris to let him stay with her and to hide him out. He is in town investigating some tainted blood and now someone is trying to kill him.

So, upon showing up at a new client's house, Iris finds him sprawled on the floor, poisoned. Only one dummy Twitter account? Amateur! I'm catfishing the hell out of my kids! *Evil laugh* Well, at least she's trying. My last effort had involved a dummy Twitter account and a rented pickup truck. I was going to have to pull some sort of Machiavellian parenting maneuver that kept her guessing about my next move and questioning my motivations. Teenagers eat weakness for breakfast! But, Iris is no slacker. YES, I am still sane! The idea of a 29 year old being able to handle the conniving monstrosity that is a 17 year old girl is hilarious. I should know - I've raised three and barely made it out with my sanity.

Not an easy task! Raising teenagers is not for the weak. She is also raising her 17 year old sister, Gigi, after their parents died in a car accident. This book is about a candy-addicted lady named Iris who runs daytime errands for creepy vampires. Word on the mean streets (that's goodreads, just so you know) is that this book was funny, so I thought, 'Okay, I'll bite.'('I'll bite' <- see what I did there? It's a vampire book.

Turns out what her quiet little life needed was some intrigue & romance-in the form of her very own stray vampire. Even though he’s imperious, unfriendly and doesn't seem to understand the difference between 'employee' and 'servant,' Iris agrees, and finds herself breaking more and more of her own rules to help him - particularly those concerning nudity. But then she finds her newest client, Cal, poisoned on his kitchen floor, and only Iris can help.Ĭal - who would be devastatingly sexy, if Iris allowed herself to think that way - offers Iris a hefty fee for hiding him at her place until he figures out who wants him permanently dead. Her rules are strict relationships with vamps are strictly business, not friendship-and certainly not anything else. Running all their daylight errands-from letting in the plumber to picking up some chilled O neg-gives her a look at the not-so-glamorous side of vampire life. Iris Scanlon, Half-Moon Hollow’s only daytime vampire concierge, knows more about the undead than she’d like.

The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires by Molly Harper