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You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14)
You're So Vein - Others, Bk 14
Author: Christine Warren
Ava Markham is beautiful, savvy, chic, and more at home with Kate Spade than with the idea of fangs and fur. She can't get quite used to the fact that some of closest friends have crossed over to the Other side. Then one night she is attacked by a rogue vampire, and her deepest fears are realized when her body begins a dangerous transformati...  more »
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PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780312947927
ISBN-10: 0312947925
Publication Date: 3/31/2009
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 250 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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cmoonlight avatar reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 47 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
I was really looking forward to this book. Ava had such a reputation from previous books of being very intelligent and very fiesty. Well she was fiesty in this book but alot of her decision making was not very smart. Dima is a vampire who is over 700 years old who rescues Ava after she is attacked by a vampire. I didn't think the romance between Ava and Dima was great at all. It was more like he loved her and she tolerated him. I must say that I was disappointed in this book. I guess I expected more.
reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 10 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I generally prefer more sci-fi/fantasy vampire sort of books, but a friend gave me this and a few other paranormal romances. I have also read book 6 of the series (Others) about one of Ava's friends and I think I might have enjoyed both stories better if I read the whole series to have a slightly greater attachment to the characters. It's a typical romance in that two people get thrown together and have instant and permanent attraction but fight it, and clear thinking and communication don't happen right away otherwise these books would be a lot shorter. They meet, he saves her life, she doesn't listen, she eventually realizes she's behaving like a spoiled brat, more stuff happens (hey - I don't want to spoil the book by giving away much more than what's on the back cover)... I was waiting for something different about her bloodline/background than what it turned out to be, but it was an ok read for a couple of hours of fluff. I'm very happy to pass it on to others and won't treasure it forever though, so enjoy.
reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 1154 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Overall I enjoy this series, but this book was not one of my favorites. The hero sums up my problem with it pretty well on page 213, "The Ava he loved was prickly, arrogant, rude, stubborn, ungracious, mostly tactless, haughty, and occasionally cruel." I prefer my heroines a little more likable than that! We're supposed to feel sorry for her because her parents were duds, but it's hard for me to generate lots of sympathy for a world famous model. One Bite with a Stranger by this author is a much better read.
reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 929 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Christine Warren is a hit or miss for me too. This one is a miss. I couldn't even finish because I just got sick of Ava's attitude and stupidity. She is also very childish and I have no idea why anyone would want tobe around her.

Wish Warren spent more time on the search for Liza because that was interesting.

Not worth the time, even though I've read most in the series.
reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 2 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I've read the other books in this series (the collective Fantasy Fix set) and was looking forward to Ava's story. She came across as that popular mean girl whom the other characters loved, but were slightly afraid of offending. I couldn't wait to see what Warren had in store for her. I was surprised and disappointed to see that Warren placed her in the heroine-who-makes-purile-decisions category. It seemed out of character for Ava to make some of these decisions, even to meet a plot device. It was a pleasant read, but I believe that One Bite With A Stranger was far superior.
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reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 35 more book reviews
Another winner! Great story line great plot didn't change the character of the people we had already come to know nor did she try to get to wrapped up in the villian and why they were being a villian. Loved it Absolutely a Greaqt read read it in two days only put it down to go to bed!
reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 86 more book reviews
I thought this book was ok, but I think it was only because of the previous characters who made an appearance in the story. Good plot but only if Ms Warren had put more substance into it I could have really like this book.
annapi avatar reviewed You're So Vein (Others, Bk 14) on + 334 more book reviews
So far this is the weakest of Christine Warren's Others series that I have read. Ada Markham still can't quite accept that her best friends have all turned to or into Others and is feeling quite resentful in her loneliness. Fate conspires against her when she is attacked by a vampire and turned into one herself.

Vladimir "Dima" Rurikovich is an elite member of the European Council of Vampires and is in America on a covert mission - to find an escaped vampire fugitive who is murdering humans wantonly. He comes upon Ada and rescues her from death and nurses her through a painful transformation, falling in love with her in the process.

It's all rather formulaic within the genre and within Warren's world of Others, and this story is weaker than most of hers. I could not relate to the characters, particularly the bitchy Ada, and found myself bored through most of this book. The only real entertainment was when Ada's friends and their spouses came into the picture.


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