Amazon summary-
Denver Psychologist Kismet Knight just wants a little excitement in her life. A little publishing fame and fortune. She doesn't believe in the paranormal. Especially not comic book children of the night. But when a new client pulls Kismet into the vampire underworld, and introduces her to gorgeous Devereux -- who claims to be an 800-year-old vampire -- Kismet finds herself up to her neck in the undead. Not to mention all the other bizarre creatures crawling out of Denver's supernatural Pandora's Box. And if being attracted to a man who thinks he's an ancient bloodsucker isn't bad enough, someone -- or something -- is leaving a trail of blood-drained dead bodies. Enter handsome FBI profiler Alan Stevens, who warns her that vampires are very real and that one is a murderer. A murderer who is after her. In the midst of it all, Kismet realizes she has feelings for both the vampire and the profiler. But though she cares for each of the men, the reality that vampires exist is enough of a challenge . . . for now.
Review (warning spoilers!)
Kismet Knight is a psychologist who bit off more than what she could chew when she had a brilliant idea to become a vampire psychologist. She discovered the world of "vampire wannabes" after counseling Midnight who Kismet believed to be merely a disturbed young woman. Midnight believes in vampires and wanted to be one. Kismet suddenly found herself entangled with the vampire world--even if she didn't believe in vampires---specially after she caught the interests of the gorgeous master vampire Devereux.. The villain in this book is Bryce, a vampire that Devereux made. Bryce wanted to be with Devereux but since Devereux was not interested, he planned to kill Devereux instead. Of course since Kismet is a modern woman, she got to save her man (even if she is not convinced yet that he is her man) by beheading Bryce like the Highlander.
I did not expect this book to be good. It was a pleasant surprise. I never have high hopes when the book cover is cheesy but this one turned out to be quite good. It is definitely on my list of books to read while waiting for the next Sookie Stackhouse book.
Kismet Knight is no Sookie Stackhouse or Bella Swan. She is a highly educated, pragmatic, no-nonsense woman. She is über-sensible. This is the reason why it took her a while to believe in vampires even in the face of overwhelming evidence. I admit this made everything a bit dry because the book was written from the point of view of Kismet and unfortunately, she is a bit emotionally inaccessible. Devereux is a very strong romantic lead. He is an 800 year old celtic vampire with a twist---he can do magic like Merlin! How cool is that?
Kismet is lucky. Devereux is just in-love with her by default. The result is a story with the heroin struggling to accept that a beautiful, powerful man loves her and if she could love him back instead of the usual woman is running after the man storyline.
The Vampire Shrink hits all the spots and I highly recommend it to people to likes Sookie Stackhouse.
Rating: *****
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