The life of werewolves, vampires, and witches isn't always danger at every corner and saving the world every couple of months. Sometimes, it's simply settling into a new job and meeting a cute coworker... trying to write a book and getting snowed in with an old flame... helping out family and meeting a cute hotel clerk... and enduring a shitty job for the chance at a better life.
This box set includes the connected stories Quality Assurance, The Werewolf of Grey Lake Inn, Beach Remedy, and Herbal Remedy.
Sasha L. Miller spends most of her time writing, reading, or playing with all things website design. She loves telling stories, especially romance, because there’s nothing better than giving people their happily ever afters. When not writing, she spends time cooking, harassing her roommates, and playing with her cats.
It was silly, it was cute, and okay, you don't have to use your brain too much with this book, but it's not here for that anyway, and I spent an amazing time reading it! The vampire with ugly plaid shirts, the hero and his friends, I love everyone and everything in this book, and I would love to read more of it, just seeing them live their life, to see what they will do, how it would work.
Looking for a quick and adorable summer read with possibly the world’s sweetest vampire ever? Quality Assurance is it. This author does a great job of taking a common trope and making it attractive and fun. Josh and Quinn are cute. Josh is just a guy who occasionally has a hook up or two that he’d rather not see in the morning. He’s very relatable and likable. But Quinn is the highlight of this story. A vampire at birth, Quinn is more or less a screw up and has always been. He’s the vampire version of a klutz and I love the vulnerability it gives him. But geez, his likability factor is through the roof.
And this world is such a good one. Day-walking vampires who work everyday jobs. I love the normalcy of it. This world is your everyday world, my everyday world, with a mix of paranormal surprise. It’s endearing.
The story here is nothing spectacular, yet it’s fabulous in its struggle. Josh’s journey to discover who and what Quinn is solidifies the base of this story. The strength of this story is in the ups and downs between Josh and Quinn. It’s not angst-ridden or frustrating, but it is fun. I like the conclusion. The one thing that caught me off guard was the appearance of Quinn’s brother, who is sort of part of Beach Remedy—another story in this series. He sort of comes out of left field and is only there for the briefest of moments.
Not much to say about it, besides that I liked it. It felt like the first pages of a longer novel, introducing the situation, characters and plot.
Merged review:
I've read Quality Assurance (1h5m) before, and wrote this: Not much to say about it, besides that I liked it. It felt like the first pages of a longer novel, introducing the situation, characters and plot. I still feel like that and I'm not sure I'll read it again, definitely not alone. Maybe together with The Werewolf of Grey Lake Inn (0h54m), the brother's story, which was nice. Beach Remedy (1h2m) is about a cousin and like the first story it feels like an introduction, the first chapters in a longer novel, not satisfying as a story, more frustrating. It also has one editing mishap that took me out of the story (in one paragraph there was a condom and no ingestion of semen, in another he tasted of semen). Herbal Remedy (0h49m) is about the brother from the last story and I liked it way more than the first and third story, because it actually felt like a novella and not a part of something longer.
That being said, I did like all the stories, but as I mentioned two of them just weren't satisfying as novellas, because they read like the first chapters of longer novels.
Really more of a 2.5 stars but there wasn't much to this short so I'm rounding down. The writing style was very good but the story itself didn't have much going on. No sex, no real dating and right when we get to the point where they're starting a relationship, the book ends.
This one was kinda of boring for me. I kept reading thinking it would go somewhere. Just as you think the story is getting better it ends. I did like the characters so maybe if it would have been just a little longer. The writing was also very nice but not the story for me.