Journal Entry 1 by BelleMorte from Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA on Saturday, January 22, 2005

just finshed and realized i never reg'd it... ehhh, its OK. i was expecting it to be a lil more plot driven than it was, but it wasnt totally bad. I'm in bookrings to read the other two in the series so i want to know what happens but i will never read it again:

Readers weary of the tortured, brooding, all-too-serious vampires that often populate paranormal romance novels will appreciate Sands's (The Loving Daylights, etc.) cheeky, madcap tale about an immortal who finds eternal happiness with his editor. Reclusive Lucern Argeneau, a family biographer who has been classified as a paranormal romance author, is stunned when Kate C. Leever, his new editor at Roundhouse Publishing (read: Dorchester), shows up on his doorstep demanding he make a public appearance to appease his fans. After some urging from the beguiling Kate, he agrees to go to the Romantic Times convention, little knowing that he'll have to contend with adoring fans and a week full of parties and signings. Some of the plot twists verge on the absurd-such as when Luc's codpiece sticks to a tablecloth at a Renaissance ball, or when Kate fells an attacker with a pillow-and Kate's reluctance to admit her feelings for Luc because she assumes she's "just supper" to him is aggravating. Still, vampire lovers will find themselves laughing throughout.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. 

Journal Entry 2 by BelleMorte at sent to fellow BX'er in Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA on Thursday, April 28, 2005

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enjoy!

+kil+ 

Journal Entry 3 by nokturnalmuse from Tampa, Florida USA on Thursday, May 19, 2005

How exciting! I just got this today - thanks very much! Going on the top of Mt. TBR - and I do mean Mt. - as in mountain - although mine is more of a mountain range! 

Journal Entry 4 by nokturnalmuse from Tampa, Florida USA on Thursday, August 25, 2005

Loved it! I thought this was better than Sex and the Single Vampire. I can't wait to read the next one! This is fun, light, fast reading. I liked her version of the vampire condition and enjoyed the characters and story. I hope the rest of the series is as good. 

Journal Entry 5 by CandyDarling from Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Thank you nokturnalmuse! I was on a bookring for another copy of this book, but it got stalled with the first participant. I'll use this book to replace the stalled copy as soon as I've read it myself.

This book is first in publication order, but should actually be read as 3rd in the Argeneau Vampires series. See The Argeneau Series for more information.

List of books in the series: (order published)
1. Single White Vampire (September 2003)
2. Love Bites (January 2004)
3. Tall, Dark & Hungry (July 2004)
4. A Quick Bite (November 2005)
5. A Bite to Remember (June 2006)
6. Bite Me If You Can (February 2007)

Here's the chronological order:
1. A Quick Bite
2. Love Bites
3. Single White Vampire
4. Tall, Dark & Hungry
5. A Bite To Remember
6. Bite Me If You Can 

Journal Entry 6 by CandyDarling from Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Single White Vampire, the first book published in Lynsay Sands' Argeneau-series (but actually the third book in chronological order) was an okay paranormal romance. It was entertaining enough to read through, but I never got that excited feeling that tells me I'm reading a really great book. In typical romance fashion, the main characters go through a lot of "funny" mishaps, while at the same time denying their feelings for each other, only to finally confess their love and live happily ever after. I think I might have read a few romance books too many in my search for good vampire books...

Lynsay Sands has created her own type of vampires, a technologically advanced race people from the mythic Atlantis, who just before the city's fall developed a vampire virus that enables them to have exceptionally long lives. I loved how Lucern explained this in the book... "I won't bother explaining the whole of it, but suffice it to say..." LOL, way to go when you have no clue about science! Anyway, Single White Vampire was funny, but not laugh out loud funny. I'm a bit hesitant to try Lynsay Sands' other books, there are so many better books out there.

The funniest part was when Luc watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV: "Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to do anything even untoward, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right!" :) 

Journal Entry 7 by CandyDarling from Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Tuesday, March 27, 2007

BOOKRAY
This book will go out as a booray, replacing two stalled rays. Here are the links to the original rays:
stalled ray #1 and stalled ray #2.

List of participants:
1. cathepsut (Egypt/international)
2. dodau (UK/international)
3. tish2002 (USA/US only)

Bookray rules:
-Please try to read the book within 4 weeks.
-Journal the book when you receive it, and again after you're finished
-PM the next participant for their address when halfway through the book
-Surface shipping ok 

Journal Entry 8 by CandyDarling from Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Tuesday, March 27, 2007

The book is now in the mail to cathepsut in Egypt. Hope you enjoy it! 

Journal Entry 9 by cathepsut from Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Saturday, April 07, 2007

Now, this one hasn't stalled as well..... :)
It was waiting for me when I arrived back home today from my holiday. Have several other bookrings and -rays ahead of it, but will try to get to it as soon as possible. 

Journal Entry 10 by cathepsut from Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Saturday, April 14, 2007

Description from Amazon:
"This uproariously hilarious romance features an intrepid romance editor, Kate C. Leever, who goes to Toronto to convince reclusive romance writer Lucern Argeneau to do some publicity. She has no idea that he is a gorgeous, silvery-eyed 612-year-old vampire, and that the characters in his best-selling vampire romance novels have the same names and occupations as members of his family. Sizzlingly sensuous sex is appropriate to the plot and pacing, adding to the delight of Sands' tale, the first installment in the Argeneau series."

I did not like it. Good idea with a lot of comic potential. But the characters have the emotional and intellectual maturity of 12-year olds. The comic interludes were pretty lame, I think I laughed once. I like brain candy as much as the next girl, but this was just too shallow and simplistic. Nope, pass.

Will send it off, as soon as I have the next address. 

Journal Entry 11 by cathepsut at by mail in To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Released 5 yrs ago (5/10/2007 UTC) at by mail in To the next participant, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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Finally in the mail to England... 

Journal Entry 12 by dodau from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire United Kingdom on Saturday, May 19, 2007

Arrived yesterday, to be read next. 

Journal Entry 13 by dodau from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire United Kingdom on Thursday, May 24, 2007

Another great book in this serries. I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as the first, mainly I think because the female lead was a bit bolshy. But it was still a great book and I look forward to more by this lady 

Journal Entry 14 by dodau at Surface Mail in Fellow Bookcrosser, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Released 4 yrs ago (5/30/2007 UTC) at Surface Mail in Fellow Bookcrosser, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 15 by tish2002 on Friday, July 27, 2007

Yay! I received this today. I was worried that it was lost in the mail. Thanks so much for sending it on to me dodau. Thanks CandyDarling for including me in this bookray. I will start on it right away. Let me know if you have someone for me to send it on to, or if you would like me to release it in some other way. 

Journal Entry 16 by tish2002 on Monday, September 24, 2007

This was really good. I enjoyed it a lot more than a Quick Bite. A Quick Bite threw too many unfamiliar characters at me at once. I had to keep a cast list to keep it straight. Of course, I was already familiar with some of them because of A Quick Bite, so maybe that's why I didn't have the problem with this one. I thought this one was more cute and funny. I enjoy Lynsay Sands books because of the humor in them. I've got a bunch more to go with this series. I understand that she has 3 more books in this series due to come out over the next year or so. 

Journal Entry 17 by tish2002 at Controlled Release in n/a, n/a -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, September 30, 2007

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Given to a friend to read.