So I'm wandering around Bakka Books about a week ago, which is one of my all-time favourite places to look for new authors. I love it because of the little reviews written on recipe cards by the enthusiastic and well-read staff, telling you a little bit about the book and why you should absolutely buy it. (These guys epitomize the reason - for me - why small, privately owned book sellers will always exist. Where else can you get personal touches like this?) I've been introduced to writers like Jack McDevitt, Connie Willis and Robert Sawyer thanks to the Bakka book reviews.

So. Wandering around. And there's a book cover that catches my eye. Not because it's stunning or tech-y but because it looks like one of my other loves, chick lit. But chick lit, in a sci-fi and fantasy bookstore?

Just reading the back has me drooling. It's fun, it's punchy, and best of all, it has vampires in it. Chick lit and vampires. Mmmmmm. It's like someone told me that Godiva was having a 80% off sale. :)

So, I bought them - both, because there were two in the series so far, and nothing annoys me more than buying one book in a series and getting home and loving it and having to trudge back to the bookstore and spend even more money to get the second one, because buying one book in a book store is like eating one square on a 70% cocoa chocolate bar.

A week later, I'm done. Both of them. Not a small feat when you're running around like a chicken with her head cut off the other ten, twelve, fourteen hours a day working on your day job.

The books: Undead and Unwed and Undead and Unemployed by Mary Janice Davidson. And seriously, if you enjoy a) chick lit or b) vampires or c) all of the above, please go and buy them. You'll thank me. Rarely have I read a series - chick lit or vampire - that has captivated me so much in so short a time. Well, not since becoming permanently addicted to Laurell K. Hamilton's books, anyway.

The characters are a hoot, particularly the main character, Betsy, who is a newly dead Queen of Vampires with a shoe fetish. Really. Do I need to say anything more than that? The cast of characters is fresh and appealing, absolutely hilarious, and engaging enough that I wish there were already a dozen more books in the series to plow through.

I can't wait to read what happens next to Betsy, Sinclair, and the gang. But really, stop reading this and go read the books already!

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