Reviewer: Robyn Roberts
Title: Fangs for the Memories
Author: Kathy Love
Publisher: Brava Kensington
ISBN: 0-7582-1131-7
Release Date: September 2005
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance, Paranormal/Vampire
Year/Setting: Current
Overall rating: 4.25
Sexual content rating: Sensual
Kathy's Website:
www.readkathylove.com
From the book:
There are Christmas mornings and then there are Christmas mornings like this one: watching my brother, Rhys, swagger through our New York City apartment...smiling. We are talking about Rhys, the detached, surly and annoying; the man who turned brooding into an art form. But he's not brooding now. No, he's practically threatening to pistol whip me for shaking hands with the beautiful, sweet, half-dressed creature named Jane who just tried to sneak out of his bedroom. Weird. And who knew Brother Grim even had a sex drive?
But it isn't just the smiling and the sudden libido that has me freaked out. Something terrible happened last night, something that made my brother break his own rule and save the life of a mortal. Whatever it was, now he doesn't remember anything from the past two hundred years. He wants Jane so bad that he's forcing himself to forget he's a vampire, taking himself back to a time before he crossed over and our family was destroyed. He's sauntering around the place like a Regency viscount with an English accent, saying things like "I behaved like a randy, soused caper-wit." Did we ever really talk like that? So, Rhys doesn't know he's a vampire, and neither does Jane. This is what we call a problem.
All I know is, this mortal woman has managed to touch my brother's frozen heart, and I, Sebastian Young, will do whatever it takes to help him keep her...
What a fun book that made me laugh. I don’t usually enjoy vampire books---too gory and too dark. However, Fangs for the Memories was such a light-hearted look at a dark topic that I found myself looking forward to reading more.
Jane is a Pollyanna type of a girl thrown into something out of "Night of the Dead". She has just arrived in New York City to find out her new job has been taken from her and she’s out of an apartment and job in the same day. It turns comical quickly as she starts doing shots with a "nice young man" at a bar. Too bad she doesn’t know the nice young man just got out of prison and has spotted her as his woman of the day. Rhys steps in to save her, breaking his own rules about getting involved with mortals. From there, it just goes crazy. I don’t want to reveal too much of the plot because the suspense makes it fun. But, Rhys is attacked and both he and Jane end up with amnesia about the evening. However, Rhys’ amnesia encompasses the past 200 years.
Rhys’ brother, Sebastian, does some fancy talking to keep Jane around Rhys. He hopes they can figure out how much they really like each other. Will Rhys ever remember he’s a vampire? How will Jane react to the news of his being undead? It’s lots of giggles and laughs getting from point A to point B.
Robyn
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