Marlene Perez

The bestselling author of the Dead Is... series is back with a snarky, hilarious take on the vampire romance novel.

The Afterlife of the Party

Francesca 

aoife

Zoey 

Firstly, I believe that there may be a lot of you who like this book, but it's just not for me. So I'd like to say that what I said is just purely my opinion. 

So the book is fine at the start, the writing is nice and the characters are relatable. However, somewhere towards the back, the characters start to become...dumb? Like it's so irritating that the main character, Tansy had no idea that Vaughan liked her, despite him being so obvious about it. And if it isn't bad enough, Skylar just gets on my nerves. She got someone else killed just because she wanted to kill the vampires and thought she was good enough to go against them. In the end she didn't even so much as touched the vampire. Instead, she got Grandma Mariotti badly injured and Opal Ann killed. I was so pissed. 

To be honest, I wanted to drop the book and just read something else.

The book is also not complete, there's a second book so this book's ending kind of just hangs there. 

Candyce Kirk

I had an e-arc of this book, but it's one I haven't been able to get around to. The Afterlife of the Party was also on Storytel, so I decided to listen to the audiobook. This one just wasn't for me. I love stories with witches and vampires, but this one was just a bit too much of the cliche things we see in these stories. I mean a band of vampires called The Drainers?

Jess Ostrander

3.5 stars!
The vampire renaissance is here and I am living for it! I was intrigued by the synopsis of this one, and thought it would be fun. 
Tansy and her best friends Vaughn and Skylar go to a party. Skylar's boyfriend is in the band, and turns out, he (and the rest of the band) are vampires. And they want Skylar and Tansy. Tansy leaves the party a vampire, and Skylar is taken by the band on their tour. Now Tansy and Vaughn are on a mission to find Skylar and save her from the band of vamps. But when they find themselves in the midst of a vampire war, will Tansy be able to make the sacrifice to save her friends?
This was definitely a quick and easy read. I liked the premise of the story, and there's a lot of interesting elements. I did find it to be a bit choppy at points, and things got wrapped up and worked out rather quickly. And then there's other times where things feel more difficult than they should. And I felt like there were a few moments where Tansy could have saved Skylar and it didn't always make sense to me why things happened the way they did. I liked the characters, but didn't feel much of a connection to them. And some of my favorite characters were side characters I hope play bigger parts as the story continues. There's also some definitely cliche things in this one, sometimes giving me a cringe moment. 
Overall, I liked the story. It's fun, it's easy, it's fast paced. But I hope that the pacing will improve over the course of the next books, and I'm curious to see where things go.

The Afterlife of the Party

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