Blessed

by Cynthia Leitich Smith Narrated by Kim Mai Guest

Overview

Quincie P. Morris, teen restaurateur and neophyte vampire, is in the ¿ght of her life-or undeath. Even as she adjusts to her new appetites, she must clear her best friend and true love, the hybrid-werewolf Kieren, of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions of Bradley Sanguini, the seductive vampire chef who "blessed" her; and keep her dead parents' restaurant up and running. She hires a more homespun chef and adds the preternaturally beautiful Zachary to her waitstaff. But with hundreds of new vampires on the rise and Bradley off assuming the powers of Dracula Prime, Zachary soon reveals his true nature-and a ¿aming sword-and they hit the road to staunch the bloodshed before it's too late. But even if they save the world, will there be time left to salvage Quincie's soul? With a wink and a nod to Bram Stoker, best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith unites the casts of Tantalize and Eternal in a delicious new dark fantasy her fans will devour.

Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

A guardian angel joins forces with an unusually humane vampire and a host of shape-shifters in this appealing melding of characters from Smith's earlier novels, Tantalize (2007) and Eternal (2009). The friendship that develops between the newly undead Quincey, out to save a group of people cursed to become bloodsuckers, and roguish angel Zachary is sweetly convincing and filled with witty dialogue. It's so flip and contemporary—"I mean, I'm your guardian angel...Middle management didn't bother to float me a background file or anything so I'm having to sort of wing this. No pun intended"—readers may at first wonder if their relationship is developing into a romance. However, this notion will be dismissed with the return of Quincie's werewolf boyfriend, Kieran, and the pages fairly smolder in describing their attraction to one another. Adding texture to the narrative are plentiful allusions to Bram Stoker's Dracula. While the novel takes its time getting started, readers who have read the first two will again be pulled into this wild and ultimately fascinating, if at times grisly, alternate universe. (Paranormal romance. 14 & up)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172103568
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	08/09/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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