UNDEAD AND UNWORTHY - MaryJanice Davidson
Undead series, Book 7
Berkley Sensation
ISBN: 978-0-425-22162-4
July 2008
Paranormal Romance

September, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Elizabeth “Betsy” Taylor is back, and boy is she in trouble! There are a few things that Betsy cannot explain to her consort and husband, Sinclair. The most notable is what she did to Marjorie, the librarian, after Marjorie captured and tortured both Sinclair and Antonia (no, not the step monster, the werewolf). The main reason is that she doesn’t know, but also because she just doesn’t have the time! What with being the Queen of the Vampires, undead parent to a non-vampire baby, nightmare of a honeymoon, and Antonia (no, not the werewolf, the step monster) haunting her, she simply has no time. Add to that, the fiends who have come to their senses and are out for her blood, due to their supposed degradation and humiliation at being treated like…well…fiends. She’d like to tell them to get a lawyer or get over it. She is also thinking she should have let Sinclair and Tina stake the lot of them. Betsy hardly has the time to give herself the pedicure she so desperately needs, but even so, Sinclair must think that she’s dumb and wont notice that he and Tina have been consulting the big scary book behind her back, looking for answers. But she doesn’t say anything because she’d like to know how she did whatever she did to Marjorie too!

UNDEAD AND UNWORTHY is the seventh book in the Undead series, which stars the feisty, shallow, shoe hungry, but lovable Betsy Taylor, Queen of the Vampires, and her rag tag “family.” Every book in the series never failed to put a smile on my face, sometimes even making me laugh so hard I could hardly breathe. Then there were times when their grief and frustration at the circumstances they sometimes find themselves in is almost palpable, and you find yourself crying with them. Sinclair, Tina , Doctor Mark, and Betsy’s step monster, Antonia the werewolf, and Garret the fiend are prominently featured in this installment of the series, and each is as delightful as always, adding a little humor, and always a strange twist.

Maybe it’s because I have a lot invested in the series -- I have read every story featuring Betsy or even remotely related to Betsy’s world -- but I continue to root for Betsy and hope that she will live as “happily ever after” as a Vampire Queen can. But until Betsy has the happily-ever-after, I look forward to her next adventure, and of course, her next trip to the shoe store!

Erin Figueroa