The plan was originally to have this read in time for a Double-Feature Friday with The Professor Woes the Witch .... and then I got a horrible awful really bad no good cold and the accompanying medicine made staying awake long enough to read almost impossible. Not a big hardship at all. I got a lot of sleep, the cold is practically no more, and it gave me something all set to read for my nights off.
If you want to share whatever has kept you up past your bedtime because you just needed one more chapter ... or the entire book ... please comment! My TBR pile is already toppling, but I can always add more.
It really doesn't shock me at all that The Vampire's Fake Fiancée would be the one to keep me up.
After all, it's the story of Sebastian Ellingham.
Poor, wounded, heart-broken Sebastian. We first met in the very first Nocturne Falls book. Even though his brother Hugh was technically the hero, many readers (myself included) fell hard for Sebastian, whose heart was broken centuries ago by Evangeline.
She's back and nobody is happy about it. She seems to think that even after all of these years, that Sebastian is pining away just waiting for her (which he pretty much has been), and they can just pick off where they left off before she broke him and made him believe that he wasn't good enough to be loved. His solution to ending this train of thought? Tell her he's not only over her (he isn't), but that he's moved on (he hasn't), and is engaged to be married (again .... nope).
Tessa Blythe's sister, Jenna, is a deputy in Nocturne Falls and has been trying to convince Tessa to move there. They're Valkyries -- direct descendants of one of Odin's shield maidens -- and basically tough badass women. Well, except for Tessa. She lost her confidence and desire to pick up her sword long ago and is hiding from life as a librarian (hair in a bun, glasses, cat and all). Jenna gets her to come to town to apply for the position of the Dean of Libraries at the private school for supernatural children and before the interview is over she's pretty much guaranteed the position -- if she can help Sebastian convince Evangeline that she is his fiancée.
I absolutely loved this from the very beginning. Sebastian is the brooding broken work-obsessed hero. Tessa is the timid, also broken, book-obsessed heroine. The whole thing only spans about a week -- including the time it take Jenna to get Tessa out of Ohio. It's a whirlwind week of learning about each other and themselves, convincing Evangeline that she is no longer the center of Sebastian's universe, and, of course, falling in love.
"They were a perfect fit, the recluse and the bookworm. The weapons collector and the sword wielder. The vampire and the Valkyrie."
I started late Friday night.
I finished early Sunday morning.
Definitely worth staying up past my bedtime for.
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