My Vampire and I Vol 2: Duet in Blood by J.P. Bowie

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J.P. Bowie returns to his Vampire universe with another story where your simple next door man meets handsome and wealthy vampire.

Micah works in a West Hollywood bookstore and lives in a one bedroom apartment. He is an everyday guy with and everyday life. He was dumped from his boyfriend to be too bored and after some months of mourning he is ready to go out and try again. Like in all the worthy romance, the very first night he meets Joseph, an handsome stranger in Los Angeles for "some" business affairs. Joseph drags him in his posh suite and makes love to him till the morning after. Joseph seems insatiable and Micah as well.

They start a one week affair that is the dream of every gay man: Joseph is gentle and caring, he vows Micah and introduces him to his "friends"; but Micah feels that something is not right, and it's not their chemistry. Then Joseph leaves for a business trip and he is not come back when expected and Micah is swept aways in an unbelievable worlds of vampires and wizards, and sex and blood!

Two things are different in this new installment of the series: the book is much longer of the previous two (260 pages) and the story is a little less funny. What was a novelty in My Vampire and I and My Vampire Lover was that the usual angst image of the vampire, dark and brooding, was turned by the glittering light of West Hollywood. The chosen mate then, was an ordinary man who was more interested in the sexual braveness of his new lover than the "little" fact that he is a vampire...

Maybe since this book is longer, the vampire theme is more developed, and also the fight of good against evil. The book is a big reunion for all the characters of the previous two, and they all fight against the evil ones, not one, but two, three and more times. You have just finished to read about a fight than soon after another danger is lurking. So the sex, that as usual follows the rule of good and often, is a bit diluted.

What instead is a constant in all the books, is that the vampire character is not the high and almighty hero of the usual vampire romance, but he is more or less a man in love, with all the insecurities that follow, and the object of his love is a rather simple guy, with all the joys and pains of the ordinary man: ex cheating lover, an ordinary work, a small apartment, good friends and a family somewhere...

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Amazon: My Vampire and I Vol 2: Duet in Blood
Amazon Kindle: Duet in Blood (My Vampire and I)
Paperback: 314 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 24, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1907010890
ISBN-13: 978-1907010897

Series:
1) My Vampire and I: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/291660.html
2) My Vampire and I Vol 2

Reading List:

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