She eventually finds that she's the prophesized Queen of the Vampires. What concerns her most is not that she's dead (or undead if you want to be picky) but that she's dressed in a polyester suit and shoes from Payless. The main character, Betsy Taylor, gets hit be a car on her 30th birthday and wakes up in a coffin at the funeral home. The titles are: Undead and Unemployed, Undead and Unwed, Undead and Unappreciated and Undead and Unreturnable.ĭavidson combined two of my favorite genres, Chick Lit and Vampire, into a wonderful series. The appearance of the old and the new secondary characters are well-balanced. Finally, you get some information about Jess: she dates, and it turns out that she has a job. Jon and Nick are back, George shows some development, Laura and her snaps are more and more interesting and creepy, and I’m really looking forward to reading more about Cathy.Īs part of my weekend binge reading, I plowed through the first four books in Mary Janice Davidson's Undead. While the plot is lame, and nothing groundbreaking or unexpected happens, the author smartly builds the tension and mystery around her characters. Remember, just like she had managed to make him able to see ghosts in Undead and Unemployed. Actually, I’m wondering what would happen if Betsy simply commanded Eric to bear that certain ability what she does. I really felt for Eric, I could understand his fear. So no threatening conspiracy or coup by him.īetsy and Eric have a relationship crisis, and fight after fight. There was a hint about a serial killer at the beginning of the novel, so I hoped for some excitement, and maybe a connection between the murderer and Betsy, but nope… He is just an ordinary serial killer, with no awareness of neither Betsy nor the vampire society. So, meanwhile Betsy’s lovelorn admirer, the ex-blade-warrior-now-a-biography-writer Jon is writing the not-so-fictional biography of Betsy, Betsy babysits her brother, BabyJon, she also contributes to the new vampire newsletter, and she is planning the first vampire monarch wedding of all time – with her openly reluctant fiancé, Eric Sinclair. The everyday life of Betsy and her housemates just can't keep me interested. The Queen Betsy series is still very entertaining, though sometimes I have to turn back the pages to recall what had happened. 'See, things started out innocently enough - a visitor, a comment, finding out a new vampire rule - and the next thing I know, I'm up to my tits in undead politics, or attempted revolutions, or dead bodies.'

Undead and unreturnable