A Bite to Remember

Private Investigator Jackie Morrisey once suffered in a relationship where she was controlled by a Immortal/Vampire, and ever since she has never been the same. She is wary of any vampires and she knows of their world. The only one she can be around is Bastien Argenau who has treated her with respect. Now she is to help Vincent in solving a case, since she is the best at what she does. However when she meets him she never expected him to be the most handsome man she has ever come across, yet her past and fears come alive, and wonders if he controls her as well. As they take a step closer to solving the mystery, so does their feelings for each come even more alive, and Vincent starts to accept that Jackie is his lifemate. But will he be able to convince her that not all of them are rotten, but that most Immortals don't use humans like she was once used, and to help her believe in love once more.A Bite To Remember is the fifth installment in the Argeneau Series. As far as vampire romances series this is one of my favorites to read. I love the whole scientific angle to being a vampire, so I enjoy these more since they are more on the enjoyable side of being a Vampire. So its always a delight to read any book in this series. A Bite To Remember is Vincent's story, and one of my favorites of the series. I love how Jackie already knows about them, and even though she has this fear, I felt that throughout this book she slowly overcomes her fear and truly embraces what being an Immortal is. It was also a delight to see characters from other books in the series come into play as well. Overall I found this to be a charming romance filled with danger, mystery, passion with endearing characters. My Favorite Quote: "Why? Because you feed on fluffy little baby cows and chickens and I feed on mortals?"

So I love this series. It's so much fun! And I fly through these books, so it's never a huge time commitment. It's easily one of my favorite series that I've picked up recently. I feel the need to explain my 3-star rating on this one, though. I really liked this book. I can see why everyone says it's so "pivotal" for the series, because it introduces a slew of characters that are in future books and are especially important in one of my personal favorites of the series: Vampire, Interrupted. Which actually IS the most pivotal book of the series. Maybe it's because I read it out of order and I had the wrong experience. Maybe that's why I didn't find this book as important as everyone was saying. So that's not the reason for the rating. I'm getting into that now. This book takes place in pretty much one house. One time they go to the mall, one time they go to Vincent's company. The rest of the time? All inside Vincent Argeneau's house. That's it. I'm pretty used to that with this series by now, because that's pretty much every book, but this time it was really pretty boring for the first half. Everything from showering to eating to changing clothes was detailed pretty nicely. And that sort of thing kind of bores me a little. I found myself skipping full paragraphs. Next, my hand was held the whole time. I couldn't come to any inferences of my own. I couldn't realize, for example, that if Vincent forgets to place a phone call that he simply had a bunch of crap going on and forgot. Nope, he has to explain to everyone listening exactly why he forgot to place that call, and explain that he'll do it as soon as he finishes doing something else (This didn't actually happen. This is just an example of something the author did with every character every time). Basically, every character explains their actions even though we can figure out why they did what they did. And Vincent. I read Tall, Dark and Hungry, and I couldn't help finding myself wondering exactly where the Vincent in this novel came from. Sometimes you could tell where the Vincent from the two novels was the same, but most of the time, it was like the guy was a different person. I think most of my problem was explained away at some point, but it bothers me when an author doesn't keep a character's personality. Some people could argue with me on this, though, because I think I'm just being especially picky. This is just something that bugged me. Other than that, I really enjoyed it. The romance was interesting and for once, Lynsay Sands decided to use her boring section of story to develop the romance. Bravo. Usually she does some insta-love mambo, or smacks the reader with the romance 60% of the way through without a lot of warning. A lot of stuff also happened here that will act like a catalyst for future novels in the series, which is really fun to see. It's definitely a necessary read if you're reading through the series, and once they tour Vincent's company, it gets pretty interesting from there.