WOW, now, there were so many surprises here I won't say anything but that! ( )

Has it really been that long since I read the other two books in this series? I had a little difficulty getting into the story right away, but once I did it turned out to be a really good story add on to the other two books. We catch up with Ciara and Shane who seem to be happy together as vampire and human. Things are going well or so it seems. She's got her job at WVMP with Shane and shes going to school, hopefully she's going to graduate soon. Plus, she's almost done with her 'job' with the Control.

But it seems that things have something else in store for her. Now there seems to be rising of zombies who are carrying a chickenpox supervirus and she's got to be careful not to get infected, but she does and she ends up allowing someone to turn her into a vampire. Now with everything else, she's got to learn how to live this new life.

Jeri has a way with writing these stories and involving soooo much that its appreciated. The music, the characters, the world itself. The characters are almost real and jumping off the page and the things that they have to face. It's really complicated but yet Jeri makes it all look so easy to intertwine into the basis of her story!

Mystery, action, sex, and lots of music is all your really need to be ready for when reading this book. It is a real page turner and will keep at the end of the rope until you figure it all out! ( )

This book is the third installment in the WVMP series and in my opinion it is the best one. That summary up there is good, but it does not even come close to summing up everything that happens in this book. There is also one EVENT (I put in all caps because it is a big deal) that I am not even going to attempt to talk about because I would not want this surprise ruined for me, so I am not going to do that to you. Let me just say, it is big and you will definitely know it when it happens.

I will not talk about aforementioned event, but I will talk about other things in the book that I liked. I did like that this book fast forwards to two and a half years after the last book, because Ciara has established a routine in her life and her con-artist past has not made her run yet. She is doing the one thing that that scares every ex con artist, establishing roots. She and Shane are still living together and his post-it notes have not managed to drive her insane, but the time has come for her to start training to be a member of Control. Ciara manages to get a reduced training time and only has to be there for a month, but she is miserable for every second of it. Once she finally does get to go home, she is met with strange behavior in her home town. People keep dying from some mysterious mutation of chicken pox and some of those deaths hit a little close to home. I was actually surprised by some of the deaths in this book, which makes me sad because I, of course, don’t like seeing people die. I do however, like the fact that Jeri does not let everyone have happy endings. I know that sounds sick, but things in life are not always happy and it makes the story more real for me when there are low points.

There are issues that have been building since book one and they are starting to cause major problems. While they do play some part in this story I have a feeling they will continue to gain speed and snowball in future books. Jim has definitely been one of those issues. His anger and bullying habits have been there from the beginning, but I think his age is starting to show and he is turning into something different than he once was. I have a feeling this is going to blow up big time in the next book, but I guess time will tell on that one.

I have also loved watching Shane and Ciara grow together. Shane helps Ciara get over her trust issues and Ciara is working on teaching Shane things from this century. They compliment each other very well and are learning how to be in a relationship together. However, their relationship is put to the test in this book because “the event” has them both questioning what they believe in and how they are going to get through it as a couple. I am not going to say more then that, so you will have to read and see what I mean.

I don’t really think I can talk about this much more, because I want to talk about what happens and that will just ruin it. So just know that after chapter 16, Ciara’s world gets rocked! I was almost flipping pages too fast to see what was going to happen. So, here is my advise:

1. Go read the first two books, Wicked Game and Bad to the Bone

2. Then go read Bring on the Night

You will be so happy you did it. Jeri has put a new spin on the whole vampire myth, that is refreshing and addictive. Plus, you will not have to read all these reviews and go “what is the event” because you will know and be happy ( )

Review courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy

BRING ON THE NIGHT picks up 2 1/2 years after Bad to the Bone and initially the giant leap forward feels a little disorienting. Honestly, I’m not sure why there is such a big gap between books 2 and 3. Several times during the first few chapters I checked to make sure I hadn’t missed an entire book (I hadn’t) or maybe a bridging novella somewhere (nope). There easily could have been another book, or two, before this one, but it feels almost like when a TV show gets cancelled and the writers throw all the major plot developments that they’d been saving into the last few episodes. That’s not the case with BRING ON THE NIGHT since there are already two more books planned for this series, but it feels like it.

So here we are, 2 1/2 years down the road, Ciara is finishing up her mandatory orientation/boot camp for the Control, Shane has been rebuilding his relationship with his human family, and he and Ciara are living together in domestic bliss with their vamp dog Dexter. Life couldn’t be better until the dead start rising, and the living start succumbing to lethal virus of mysterious origins.

BRING ON THE NIGHT is a game changer for the series in a lot of ways (several I which I can’t even begin to talk about with out spoiling the entire book). Characters evolve and reveal themselves in surprising yet satisfying ways, decisions are made that will irrevocably change the lives of everyone at WVMP Radio, lives are lost, new love is found, and nothing will ever be the same.

As vague as I’m forced to be in this review, I can say that BRING ON THE NIGHT is the best in the series to date, and I really love how Jeri fearlessly made some tough, bold changes this time out that have paid off in the most exciting installment yet. I still question the big time gap between books, and the “bad guy” was little more than a convenient prop for a different plot element, but for me, a new and much needed energy has been injected into this series. Book 4, tentatively titled LET IT BLEED, will be released Summer 2011, and after BRING ON THE NIGHT it’s anyone's guess what will happen next.

Sexual Content: References to homosexuality. A scene where two women make out while a man masturbates. Several sex scenes in varying graphic detail. ( )

"Bring on the Night" fills the third slot in the WVMP book series by Jeri Smith-Ready. "Bring on the Night" follows the life of former con artist Ciara Griffin as she tries to protect WVMP Radio from financial ruin and certain death for its vampire DJs, continue her relationship with vampire DJ Shand McAllister, and fullfill her obligation to the organization known in the vampire world as "The Control."
Ciara has just finished INDOC with the Control when the town of Sherwood is suddenly hit with two very different, very dangerous epidemics. Ciara, her vampire family, and her fellow Control agents, must figure out how to save the town, and themselves, before life becomes death for some, and undeath becomes permanent death for others.
Jeri Smith-Ready presents plotlines in this book that should be rediculous and completely unplausible. However, she makes these outrageous ideas work in a way that challenges a reader's views on the supernatural. At times this book was funny in a rediculous sort of way, and at others this book had me looking out my window to see if the undead were coming for me.
The author was able to incorporate historical infomation in a way that makes you want to re-read your high-school text books and see history her way. This book will appeal to any music lover in the library. Included in each book is a song list from the story of real world songs that span generations.This book will have you thinking about things in a whole new light. This is a perfect read: light, witty, and entertaining, with a solid message that will stay with you even before you realize its there.
Happy Reading!
~M.K. ( )