Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Went to Amazon, but most of the books I saw with that title were either YA or (I think, I’m at work, BTW) erotic novels.

The only one I’ve come up with so far that has a priest and a vampire is The Priest of Blood, by Douglas Clegg.

It’s a horror novel.  Not sure if it has any sort of romance in it.

Give Blood Lust by Ron Dee a try. He was a priest.

I dunno what the book is, but I do know that I have never read Cassie Edwards but I feel this horrid compulsion to flit over to Amazon and buy one of her books…I’m guessing that reading her would be likened to Rubbernecking a Romance Novel.

He’s not a bad writer by any means but F Paul Wilson has a novel, Midnight Mass with a master vampire/priest.  This one is described as over the top:

Professing (in a brief author’s note) his fondness for thegenuinely evil Nosferatu of classic vampire fiction, Wilson(Gateways) concocts a garish B-movie scenario, an expansion ofa 1990 novella with the same title, in which armies of the un-deaddecimate Europe and later make the New York metropolitan area theirprivate feeding trough. An organized human insurgency begins whenFather Joe Cahill, a recovering alcoholic, reclaims his desecrated NewJersey parish and joins forces with his activist niece, Lacey, andCarole Hanarty, a nun who makes explosives for her own vendetta withthe “Vichy” (i.e., human collaborators). When vampires chomp FatherJoe to suppress the revolt, he knows he has only two weeks before hisfull vampire conversion to launch a counterattack. All the novel’scharacters are as outsized and engaging as comic book heroes andvillains. Though Wilson intentionally invokes well-known vampireclichés–the repellant power of the cross, grisly death by sunexposure, etc.–he also works crafty new angles on his theme,among them vampire bloodlust paralleling the selfish excesses of humanMe-Generation types. Still, but for a few twists, there’s little herethat hasn’t already been attempted in novels ranging from RichardMatheson’s I Am Legend (an acknowledged influence) to YvonneNavarro’s Afterage (1993).

The first Kerrelyn Sparks novel, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire (http://www.amazon.com/Marry-Millionaire-Vampire-Love-Stake/dp/0060751967/ref=sr_1_1/104-0340170-4992746?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193091528&sr=1-1) has a hero who was a monk before being bitten. It’s a comedy, though, so I’m not sure it’s what you’re looking for.

Could it be Dawn Thompson’s BLOOD MOON? Not a priest, but a vicar.

I’m with Maggie.

Ron Dee’s Blood Lust has a mainstream preacher whose wife is killed by the vamp, and he has to team up with a wild-eyed pentacostal preacher (who lost his family and is later bitten) and a college student whose parents were killed.

It was a pretty good horror novel and not at all a romance.

I’ll check with my mom tomorrow, but it looks to me like it might be Meljean’s pick. I know Mom belongs to the Love Spell book club, and that seems like the only suggestion that would have been featured there. It also really does look like an awful book, judging from the plot summary. So now I’m more curious than ever about experiencing the horrors that might await me if I try and read it.

I’m intrigued by this comment in the Amazon reviews for Blood Moon…

“Bedroom scenes are rare since the main couple has no idea what any child they conceive may inherit. Therefore, men will totally enjoy this book as much as women will.”

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“Bedroom scenes are rare since the main couple has no idea what any child they conceive may inherit. Therefore, men will totally enjoy this book as much as women will.”

Because men don’t enjoy reading sex scenes? *is confused*  ;)

All the guys I know do. *snigger*

Well, I know the lack of bedroom scenes certainly doesn’t make me all that eager to read it… along with everything else.

”  “Bedroom scenes are rare since the main couple has no idea what any child they conceive may inherit. Therefore, men will totally enjoy this book as much as women will.”

Because men don’t enjoy reading sex scenes? *is confused*”

I don’t know, I catch my hubby flipping through my romance books looking for the “bedroom scenes”! ;)

That book quality scale: I’m thinking CE on one end and Nora at the top. The standards in between could be the source of much amusement (or possible hair-pulling).