Ratings12
Average rating4
Totally adored getting to see Genevieve again and watching her become delightfully flustered over Imogene. However... Imogene's character could have worked better for me. She's a little self-sacrificing (though Genevieve might have needed just that) and much more NORMAL than I'm used to seeing from this author. That being said, the only thing that really dropped the rating to a ‘mere' four stars for me is the fact that we never get Genevieve's perspective. The entire story we are in Imogene's head and I would have loved to see/hear what Genevieve thought about the new lady in her life.
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Imogene is a little past her prime (long in the tooth, on the shelf, whatever you prefer) and her mother is starting to despair of every marrying her off. Imogene has had plenty of offers, plenty of men that want to marry her for she is uncommonly pretty. However, she is disinterested as she prefers women.
In an effort explore her preference, loose her innocence and figure out what's wrong with her, she decides to join the vampires. (As, rumor has it, they are perverted.) What she doesn't expect is to meet the lovely trouser wearing inventor indentured to the vampire hive, Genevieve Lefoux.
I'll be honest, the major reason I've been so excited for this story is because I have adored Genevieve since her first introduction in the story. I adore her, and her romance was a little disappointing because this entire story is told from Imogene's perspective. So, while we get plenty of moments of Genevieve appreciation, we also don't get inside her head. (We do get to see her flustered though, and that has made me want to run away with her even more.)
Imogene is a real character. She is an innocent, but her thoughts definitely aren't and, if she had her way, she wouldn't be an innocent any more (because a lot of her thought's are along the lines of ways to loose said innocence). She's fairly practical and down to earth, but has a distressingly low opinion of herself. She also suffers from being too pretty.
Now, I know a lot of people will say that's not a real flaw – and I agree that how it is usually done, it isn't. But here, it is. Because, much like real life stories, bad things happen to Imogene because of her looks. She's dismissed because someone pretty obviously cannot also be smart and, even worse, men want to take advantage of her because she is so pretty. Because of this, and her generally low station in society, some of the story is a little difficult.