Everybody remember my love of the first book? No? I linked my review up top so feel free to go read the fangirl'ingthe review and come back. I'll wait.

Okay so now you must know how much I love Jane. She only gets better. On the back of the book the tagling 'Forever a Bridesmaid, Never an Undead Bride' kind of sums up the funny of this book. Jane is Maid of Honor to Jolene (Zeb's wack-a-doodle werewolf girlfriend he met in the previous book while trying to come to terms with Jane's undead status) and even though Jolene is sympathetic to Jane's problems she kind of doesn't care so long as Jane helps her. That's a little harsh, but between her family's Pack 'humor' leading to her fiance losing a pinky toe and Zeb's harridan of a mother publicly shaming, snubbing and practically denouncing her (in favor of Jane, though Jolene doesn't blame her for that) Jolene really has a lot to handle.

Jane meanwhile has her own family problems to sort out--such as her terminally delusional mother who insists on ignoring her undead status and lied to the family about Jane's 'illness', or her black widow of a grandmother who just buried her (almost) fourth husband and might have husband five lined up (at the funeral I might add). Then of course there's her dead aunt Jettie who alternately pesters Jane and floats off to do the ghostly tango with a former grandfather of Jane's (it can get a little bit off the wall).

I definitely enjoyed this second outing as much, if not more so, then the first. It made me never want to get married, but had me laughing often. Instead of 'The Guide for the Newly Undead' on the chapter tops, we have 'Mating Rituals and Love Customs of the Were', which um scares me. The word puns are witty (such as 'In some cases a surviving mate will die of mourning pains' ha ha get it? 'Morning Pains'? XD) and I think it helps a lot to explain things without making everything an info dump for the reader.

Jane and Gabriel's (her possibly too protective lover and sire)relationship undergoes some stress as well. Forced to contemplate reality because of Zeb's upcoming nuptials, Jane doesn't know if Gabriel is 'forever' material in the literal sense. Killing the guy who shot you forcing you to become a vampire is kind of too extreme for the slightly more passive Jane and she isn't sure that in a hundred years how things will be. As a vampire the 'forever til death do us part' part of the marriage vows can mean centuries and centuries (though as Gabriel points out its still not legal for two vampires to marry, being dead and all certain rights seem to be taken away...) and Jane just isn't sure that's a commitment she wants to make with him.

Book 3: Nice Girls Don't Live Forever is due out December 29th (according to Amazon) so I guess it'll be a late a Christmas present to myself eh? ( )

Not as good as the first, but still an enjoyable read. I really hope Mama Ginger doesn't make any more appearances in the series. She wasn't just deplorable, she was downright annoying. ( )

Molly Harper is just a hoot. I love Jane Jameson’s sass and quick-witted comebacks as she continues to snark her way through her first year as one of the undead. Things have progressed somewhat—on some fronts. Her best friend Zeb is getting married to a werewolf, which is awesome except for the fact that his mother and her mother hate the idea and keep trying to hook him up with Jane. Then there’s the fact that Gabriel, Jane’s on again, off again love interest, who she’d kind of like to be on all the time, and something of a more conventional 21st century boyfriend, keeps going off the radar with no explanation.

I liked how things proceeded with the mystery of what was going hinky in Zeb and Joleen’s relationship, as well as what was up with grandma Ruth’s new boyfriend, who was admittedly a little unusual. I look forward to seeing if Jane and Gabriel manage to take things to the next level in their relationship!

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This series is as addictive as potato chips. ( )

A quick, light summer read. More "romancey" than the first in the series, and still funny. I didn't like it quite as much as the first, but it was worth reading. ( )