Monday, November 16, 2009

Review: Never Bite a Boy on the First Date by Tamara Summers

Never Bite a Boy on the First Date by Tamara Summers (October 2009, HarperCollins e-books, ISBN: 9780061949722)

First Line:
Prologue
If you were dying...

Review: Kira November has been sixteen for a year and a half now and she wasn't originally called Kira. Her old life ended in a hit and run accident and her new life as a vampire began when she was saved by her new family.

As Kira is very new to being a vampire, she makes mistakes and the family has had to move town a couple of times. It's not surprising then, that when one of her new school colleagues is found dead, killed by a vampire, that suspicion falls on her. She has a week to prove it wasn't her before being locked up in a padded coffin for a few hundred years.

Kira has to investigate and she thinks the killer is one of three boys that have caught her attention by their suspicious behaviour. She has to get close to them and see what she can find out.

I really enjoyed reading Never Bite a Boy on the First Date. It's light and funny and Kira is a likeable lead character (and a fan of Buffy and Veronica Mars). Her sleuthing duties involve more romance than detection and the identity of the killer was well concealed until the very end. I did think it ended a bit abruptly and would have liked another chapter. Some of the vampire traits such as not having a reflection and inability to be in sunlight are given a different twist and the applying make-up problem is very amusing. The only thing I was surprised with is that Kira can't tell another vampire without checking their pulse (or lack of). Maybe she doesn't have super hearing to go with the super strength.

I read that the author would bring Kira back if there was enough call for it and I for one would love to see her return, along with her extended, bizarre vampire family and new boyfriend.

Cover: I love the cartoon-style cover and think it fits well with the light-hearted story.

14 comments:

  1. I love the sound of this! Thanks for the review.

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  2. Yes it is a lot of fun. I shall probably buy her Save the Date ebook (ridiculously cheap at the moment).

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  3. I so hope there is sequel...i dont think i could survive without reading more.

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  4. i absolutly loved this book. I couldnt put it down.

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  5. this is my favroite book ive ever read

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  6. Please please please Make It A SEQUEL i love the fist book but i want there to be another one. oh and if u do do it please make zac nice again and kira and him together perfectly!! x

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  7. I really hope that there will be a sequel to Never Bite a Boy on the First Date. Hoped that Kira would end up with a different person. The book ended abruptly and I felt like Kira settled for the alternative and not the person she really cared for. I was so annoyed by the abrupt end. I suspect that books like this are meant to build on two people in love that "should" not be together for "various" reasons, and the purpose is to root for Kira to be with the one person she should not be with. I am hopeful for a sequel!

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  8. i finished this in 1 day!! i just couldn't but it down!!!:D PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE make a sequel!!:D

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  9. Make a sequel! great book , started reading then i couldnt put it down :)

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  10. sequel pleeaaaseee:D?

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  11. hey i read the bokk loved it so much but i never undrstud the end it dont say what happends to any one i think you should make a nuther and folow it on in a love thingymabob the truble could be that uther vamp that loves her :) pleeeeeeaassseee make a sequel!!!!!XD

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  12. sequel sequel sequel pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase my life depends on it ....PLEASE

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  13. i felt the exact same way about the ending.. when I read the last sentence from the book i was like: that was it? there must be a sequel i don't know about.and so i looked up the words: 'never bite a boy on the first date sequel' only to find out there was none. Dissapointing, Tamara, dissapointing!

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  14. I LOVED this book.
    I've read it more than eight times straight.
    It's witty, romantic/ish and has harem!
    Team Daniel!
    Though... Milo's close behind.

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