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Book Review of Wicked Game (WVMP Radio, Bk 1)

Wicked Game (WVMP Radio, Bk 1)
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In this book con artist Ciara (Keer-ah) is trying to go straight. She's almost finished a degree and just needs to complete an internship to wrap things up. However, things quickly turns weird when she finds that the failing radio station she's tasked with turning around is staffed by vampires - and that the vampires are mentally stuck in the decade they became vampires in.

It's an interesting idea, though I wasn't really sure how the whole "stuck in the decade they were turned in" would really work. After reading a little over the first hundred pages, I'm still not really sure. The vampire still dress, talk and prefer things from their time or before. But they're aware that the world is different now, but apparently just can't/won't deal with that fact.

Beside that, the book is just boring. The plot plods along, with the biggest excitement when I stopped being a drunk bachlorette party that Ciara gets on the wrong side of, and being bitten by someone that she might kinda of like, but can't decide what she really wants out of him.

The book tries to make it seem like a big deal that the vampires might fade if the radio station is shut down, but didn't successfully make me care about that. Then Ciara comes up with a "crazy" idea to get more traffic to the station - lets tell everyone that the DJs are vampires who are mentally stuck in the time period they were turned in! I could tell right away that wasn't going to turn out well.

Due to being mostly bored with the plot and rolling my eyes at the rest, I gave up after 100 pages.