Product Description

Ever since an accident turned her into a knockout vamp, Elvi Black's been catching her z's in a coffin, staying out of the sun, and giving up garlic. She knows there's more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula, but she can't very well ask her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette. But when her neighbors placed a personal ad for her in the local paper, she never imagined she'd meet Victor Argeneau, a vampire who could have his pick of any woman—dead or alive.

Rich, powerful, and drop—dead gorgeous, Victor's the perfect man for a novice neck—biter like Elvi. He's willing to teach her everything he knows, but he'll have to do it fast. Someone's out to put a stake through her new vamp life, and only Victor can keep her safe—and satisfied—for all eternity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18003 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-01
• Released on: 2007-12-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author

Lynsay Sands is the national bestselling author of the Argeneau vampire series as well as more than sixteen historical novels and anthologies known for their humorous edge.

Customer Reviews

Series lover!
I started with Accidental Vampire, accidentally. Elvie is my age, ok, a few years younger, and I want to BE her. The humor Ms. Sands uses throughout, including the steamy parts makes this story so, you should forgive the xpression, "human". This is the sort of love life every girl should think she is entitled to. Believe me, if I wasn't still married to the love of MY life, I'd start looking for Argeneau's looking for life mates. Then I discovered it was the 7th (seventh!?) in the series, I naturally had to acquire the other 6, right. Now 10? Goodie, Goodie! My summer's reading is solved!

THANK YOU LYNSAY SANDS!

Great concepts, spotty writing
I'm being generous with the three points I gave this book. The characters are funny and lovable (Elvi is a real sweetheart and Vincent is a great, caring guide to her as she resolves her misconceptions of vampirism), the dialogue is witty and exuberant (the opening dialogue involving an errant bat in the house made me laugh out loud), and the concepts are clever (Vampires as Atlantis survivors, vampirism triggered by nanobot-like technology)... But the execution is awkward at best, uneven and inconsistent at worst. How exactly did she fail to turn her best friend (by apparantly having her friend drink from her, the way it's done in the movies), if she herself was turned just by accidently ingesting vampire blood?? I also found the lack of tension among the troupe of vampires vying for her affections a bit disappointing, but it's a bit of a relief from the usual Macchiavellian machinations among the children of the night which tend to dominate much of vampire fiction.

Could have been better
The accidental Vampire while a good book could have been better. Everyone
knew She was going to end up with Victor for me what would have made
it better if the book hadn't ended so happily ever after. Yes it is a
fantasy but it is also taking place in the real world to take advantage of blood banks and other every day morden conviences. Five men invited to
persue one woman shouldn't all end up finding true love in one place. How
come there are all lifemates available for each vampire suitor who came?
Why didn't the Vampire who was her sire Know that he sired a vampire was
there no tie because he didn't purposely make her one? And give me a break I would have killed the teenager never mind say I forgive you to the parents who was trying to break the so called evil hold over him. The one thing I totally agree with in the end is that living in that town is punishment enough. With friends who automaticlly believe you should change how you live entirely by facts that exist in books and movies who needs enemies? I felt her running out to the supermarket and to get a bed right away when she realized she could eat and sleep like she use to understandable not humourous at all!