Editorial Review:
WARRIOR, HIGHLANDER, VAMPIRE
Meet the MASTER OF ECSTASY. Darach MacKenzie is everything dark, dangerous, and delicious. His voice is a tempting slide of sin, and he's the primitive need that lives in every woman, no matter how much she denies it. But even five hundred years of sensual knowledge haven't prepared him for the woman who awaits him in his clan's ancestral castle.
HAPPINESS IS HER BUSINESS
In a distant future, Blythe works for Ecstasy Inc. to make people happy. That's her job, and she does it well. Company policy forbids the use of sensual solutions to cure unhappiness, and Blythe agrees that sex is a short-term fix. When her abilities are called into question, Blythe travels back to the Scottish Highlands of 1785 to prove that she can make anyone happy. She hasn't counted on a centuries-old vampire for a client.
Darach believes that sexual pleasure is the key to happiness. Blythe thinks that Ecstasy Inc. has all the answers. Neither one considers love as an option. They're about to discover how wrong they can be.
Customer Reviews:
Master of Stupidity is More Like It
I realize one has to suspend all belief when reading fantasy and/or romance novels of any genre, but the sheer idiocy of this one takes the cake. I've read a lot of this "type" of book (the good and the bad) and sadly, this is probably the worst. And I'm not that picky; I hate giving bad reviews. Aside from the one-dimendional boring characters I didn't care about, what really got me is that this struggles to be, but isn't, funny. It's just dumb and weakly written, like a bad sitcom. I won't bore you with the plot details because they've already been hashed by other reviewers and aren't worth mentioning (scary-lonely-dark-sexy vampire, time traveling woman who falls for him while doing her job, magic-fairy creature in form of a cat, assorted others who do miscellaneous stuff in the background, etc. I think one of the reviews here actually compared the Highlander vampire in this book to Highlander Jamie McKenzie from Diana Gabaldon's outstanding Outlander series so I thought it might have some merit. Sorry but no. Were we reading the same books?). Thankfully I got this for free otherwise I'd be a bit skeeved having paid good money for it. Needless to say, I won't be reading any more by this author as I fear they will be just as weak and pathetic as this one, which I struggled to finish. Do yourself a favor and pass it by. It's not even good trashy beach reading (which I like, don't get me wrong), it's just a waste of time and paper. Nina Bangs may have an audience out there, she's certainly written a lot of books, but it certainly isn't me.
2007-11-08
Interesting concept, fantastic characters, GREAT story!
Ever wonder what life would be like in the future? Just ask the guests at Castle McKenzie in Scotland. They all come from the year 2310, and they are all on vacation to an authentic scottish castle. Little did they know that their vacation also came with an authentic scottish vampire. Our hero, Darach, is a 500 year old vampire taking his turn at the home castle, since all vampires who have went mad will come back to their ancestral home. Once they get there, it is Darach's job to kill them, to prevent them from killing humans. He is in the middle of his time at the castle when the tour group shows up, led by Ganymede, a cosmic troublemaker who has recently had his powers clipped. Our heroine is Blythe, whose job is to make people feel good without actually crossing the line into physical interactions. Since she messed up once, she is given the task of taking care of Darach without actually TAKING care of him. That is the basic premise of the story. Add in some hilarious secondary characters, like Sparkle Stardust-who is one of my favorites-and a cult of crazed women who think that gang raping a vampire will make them immortal, and you have an excellent story that will keep you totally involved until the book is finished.
2007-11-06
