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All I Want for Christmas Is a Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 5) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kerrelyn Sparks
Publisher: Avon
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 006111846X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061118463
Publication Date: November 1, 2008
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Toni Davis's Christmas wish list 1. Springing my best friend from the psych ward. 2. Living somewhere that doesn't have coffins in the basement. Occupied coffins. 3. Finding Mr. Right. Please make him tall, dark, handsome, and alive. This Christmas isn't so merry for Toni. Her best friend's been locked up in a mental hospital ever since she told the police she was attacked by vampires, and the only way for Toni to get her out is to prove that bloodsuckers really do exist. So she's taken a job as a bodyguard for the Undead, but she gets more than she bargained for, especially when she meets Ian MacPhie, a Scottish rascal looking for Ms. Right. Although Ian's nearly five centuries old, he looks and acts like a twenty-seven-year-old hunk. How can a dead man be so damn sexy? Could Mr. Wrong be Mr. Right? One forbidden kiss could lead to an eternity of passion—and all it takes is one moment under the mistletoe . . .
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 Pretty good read - just a little long though November 30, 2008
Virginia Susannah (Alabama, USA)
It was a pretty good read except it seemed to be really long. I tried to read it in one night, but couldn't finish it. I really liked the hero, Ian and his Scottish accent. The dialogue between the hero and heroine at the beginning of the novel was great. The ending was kinda of cheesy with the heroine receiving "superhero" powers. I liked the chemistry between the hero and heroine and I liked that it had a plot and it wasn't all about sex. But overall, what kept my attention the most was the hero, his accent, and his lack of dating skills. 4 stars!
I never thought I'd fall for a guy named Ian November 26, 2008
Zeph (Florida)
Towards the begining of ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS I thought "Boy am I lucky to have found this book". There is always one or more of those kind of novels in an avid readers collection. If you haven't read one yet then you have something to look forward to.
I've never read anything by Kerrilyn Sparks before so I cannot tell you whether this book was better or worse than her others.
Yes, it was rife with cliches. Good vampires verses bad vampires with the ignorant humans in the middle. But for a while it was like Sparks was the first to have written such an environment. Ian, the hero, is a 400 + year old vampire who was stuck at the age of 15 for all that time. This is something almost anyone would complain about but not Ian. Anyways, with some powerful help from genius Roman (the hero from the first Love at Stake book) he has managed to age 12 years in 12 days. And boy, did he become a handsome man. Of course, Ian doesn't know how delicious he is because in his world vampires cannot see their own reflections. Moving on, Ian isn't your average commitment-phobic hunk; he is looking for a long-lasting and fairytale love.
Toni is your average lonely hero with a mission. I don't think the idea that love exists has even registered in her head before. For the mortal day guard of three very high-profile vampires, Toni's job seems to be a little dull and her infamous fighting skills are only impied... until the end. But from the begining she plans to betray the good vamps. Calm down, I don't mean she's gonna hand them over like helpless babes to the evil vamps. Only that she is going to use her new occupation to find proof that vampires do exist and her friend in the mental institution isn't crazy.
Overall it was a nice book. Not reread-it-3-times kind of book but it will leave me with nice memories. The "I am so lucky to have found this book" faded but even cynical me strongly liked it.
 An early Christmas present from NYT bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks! November 25, 2008
Sharon Forret (Southeast Texas, USA)
Fans of Kerrelyn Sparks' enormously popular Love at Stake series have been anxiously waiting for the story of Ian MacPhie, a Scottish warrior turned vampire, doomed forever to look only fifteen years old. Well, this year Christmas has come early for Ms. Sparks' fans and for Ian because he's aged a dozen years with the help of a special potion.
Ian is truly unique hero. A grown man and battle-scarred warrior on the inside, he's been treated for centuries like the fifteen year old his outward appearance reflected. Now that he has "matured," he must find his way through the modern dating scene--a complex situation that is at turns laugh-out-loud funny and tenderly poignant.
Armed with his grown-up physique, sweetly old-fashioned Ian is looking for a special lady to share his life. He only has a few requirements: honesty, loyalty, intelligence and beauty--but not necessarily in that order. Above all, she must be a vampire like him.
Enter an honest, loyal, intelligent and beautiful *mortal* stage right. Though she'd rather not have anything to do with them, Toni Davis has her reasons for getting mixed up in the immortal world. Ian's enemies, the Malcontents, have kidnapped her best friend, and Toni will risk anything to save her friend--even getting close to the beings whom she hates.
Kerrelyn Sparks' novels all have broad, cross-genre appeal. Romance readers who have never read a paranormal before will love this witty, sexy series. Fans of dark paranormal will delight in Sparks' wry humor. All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire, the fifth book in the Love at Stake series, is the perfect companion to snuggle up to this holiday season!
Cute and Sexy Vampire Read (B Grade) November 22, 2008
C. Garrabrant (Bloomfield, NJ USA)
All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks may have a very unappealing title along with a cover that looks like the Batman signal in the sky, but this was an enjoyable read. Her vampire men are beyond sexy and the majority of her heroes are highlanders in kilts! This latest tale is about Ian MacPhie. Ian was changed into a vampire when he was barely a teenager, and because of it, he always looks like a young boy. Dating for him was impossible and since he has taken a drug called Stay-Awake for twelve days, Ian has aged to look finally look like a grown man. Now he wants to find a woman to spend his immortal life with. He is looking for female vampire companionship, and soon he is forced to put a single ad placed in a paper. And because of that, he soons has more than enough women problems. There is a rumor going around that Ian is a virgin, and soon all these vamp women want to be his first. Ian does have sexual experience, but has never had the long lasting relationship he has always longed for. He doesn't want to date any human women, but unfortunately he can't help but fall for Toni, a new security guard who watches over Ian and his other fellow vampires during the day. At first these two bicker back and forth, but then their feelings change to love.
Kerrelyn's books make me laugh because her characters are adorable and the situations they find themselves in are hilarious. Plus, her sex scenes are very steamy. There is one such scene where Ian and Toni are intimate and Ian wants to kiss and suck on her, but not on her neck or for her blood, but another place altogether. So very scandalous and hot I say!
Katiebabs
Stocking Full of Vampires November 18, 2008
Anna Hope (PA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We've watched Ian McPhie physically grow up over the last several books of this series and now he's headed home to Dragonesti's New York townhouse to make it all pay off in his pursuit of love with his perfect vampire woman. But what he finds when he gets home is that none of his friends recognize him, he's outgrown his coffin, woman are sure he's a 500 year old virgin, and the new guard who's supposed to be watching over him during the day is not Tony but Toni- a female who sets his blood to boiling!
Toni didn't plan to help her best friend like this. she thought she'd pop down to Central Park, prove vampires didn't exist and then go help her sick friend. Instead she got snacked on in the park by Malcontents, or at least that's what Connell the vampire who saved her calls the bad vampires. Impressed by her fighting skills he gave her the options of either A. Having her memory erased or B. Work for them as a day time guard since they are currently short staffed during a vampire war. Toni chooses the later so that she can maybe prove her friend isn't crazy, that vamps do exist. But her proof seems laughable and her luck goes from bad to worse when her friend ends up institutionalized and her boss Ian starts watching her...not to mention the no fraternization clause she signed with the company and that if the two of them are caught lip-locked her memory is history anyway!
Everything is complicated by the Russian vamps taking a sudden interest in Ian, coupled by his internet love hunt for the perfect vampire making him the most talked about vampire in the nation. Women and assassins are knocking in his door and somehow he ends up on vampire television harassed by the biggest gossip of them all. But Ian and Toni help unwrap each other just in time for Christmas with no lumps of coal in sight! This was a great addition to the series and a good find for the genre for the holidays.
The Love at Stake series in order:
How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
Vamps and the City
Be Still My Vampire Heart
The Undead Next Door
All I want for Christmas is a Vampire
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