Broken Heart, Oklahoma – Present Day

Patricia “Patsy” Donahue had a hard life, and her life as a vampire isn’t looking like a cake walk either. Before she was turned along with eleven other single parents, Patsy was a beautician, and she ran the beauty shop her Nonna started before she died. Now, she sees dead people, including her Nonna, is trying to keep her son on the straight and narrow and is fighting with her friends and the Consortium about moving into the “compound” and wondering why she needs an incredibly handsome shapeshifting bodyguard, Gabriel. Not that she minds the eye candy, and when she is attacked by a demon, having that large white wolf protecting her isn’t so bad. But she would like to know why the demons are attacking her, and why the Consortium tells her that Gabriel isn’t the bodyguard they assigned her, and where has her son run off to this time? All great questions, and Gabriel is the only one who seems willing to give her any answers. But can Patsy trust him with everything that she holds dear; her son, her safety, and her heart? Only time will tell.

BECAUSE YOUR VAMPIRE SAID SO is the third book in the Broken Heart, Oklahoma series, and while I found the book entertaining and the characters enjoyable, the story seemed incomplete. With so many things happening in Patsy’s life there was not enough time for the characters to resolve the situations, so they were just made to disappear. For example, Patsy’s son, Wilson, has a drug and alcohol problem, and he’s not interacting with his mother; then, near the end, he approaches her and admits that he has a problem, and she says that they’ll get him help. That was it; no previous discussions between them, no indication of what kind of help; it just seemed like a cop-out. There are other problems with some of the elements of the book. I can’t specify, because they occur at the end of the book, and one total inconsistency in the world building of the series is actually in the epilogue and would definitely be a spoiler.

All in all, though, I enjoyed BECAUSE YOUR VAMPIRE SAID SO and hope some of the inconsistencies can be explained in future books, but I was a little frustrated with the way many issues in this novel were ended without real resolution.

Erin Figueroa