Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary by Jordan Castillo Price ~ Audiobook

61hn9jX4MaL._SL500_AA300_PIaudible,BottomRight,13,73_AA300_Title: Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary
Series: Sweet Oblivion, 1-5
Author: Jordan Castillo Price
Narrator: Gomez Pugh
Genre: Paranormal
Length: 7 hours and 44 minutes
Publisher: JCP Books LLC (04-13-15)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥4.5 Hearts

Blurb: Michael is a waif in eyeliner who’s determined to wipe vampires off the face of the earth. Wild Bill’s got the hots for Michael, and will stop at nothing to go home with him. Forget about moonlit castles and windswept moors. These bad boys haunt all-night diners and cheap motels, cut-rate department stores and long, lonely stretches of the Interstate.

Ride along with Wild Bill and Michael as the twists and turns of Channeling Morpheus for Scary Mary unfold in America’s Heartland.

Product Link: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Channeling-Morpheus-for-Scary-Mary-Audiobook/B00VXUG11I

Reviewer: Tams

Review: Michael is bound and determined to cleanse the earth of the vile race of vampires. Well, until he falls in love with one. When Michael’s best friend Mary was killed, drained by bad vamps, he set out to kill them all. His messenger bag is full of wooden stakes and blister packs of Rohypnol (roofies). When Michael meets Bill in a bar, he takes him for just another horny guy and blows him off. Michael not only learns he was wrong about Bill, but he’s wrong about vamps, they aren’t all murdering psychos.

Bill only wanted to kill one vampire. The one that accidentally created him when he fed on Bill then left him for dead. He figured out quickly what Michael had planned, so he helped the kid out, and then dumped him off at the greyhound station. What Bill didn’t count on was the twenty-one year old with those sexy, kohl lined, blue eyes, and dyed black hair tracking him down.

Michael has found something intriguing in Wild Bill, the James Dean-esque vampire that cranks his shaft. And while Michael is figuring out that not all vamps are bad, he still makes it his life mission to kill the bad ones, with his bad ass vampire lover by his side.

They are a very passionate couple, let me tell you. They go at everywhere from parks to picnic tables, abandoned houses, seedy motels and the back of their van that they’ve turned into a coffin on wheels. What really drew me into their love story was how normal it was in the middle of all the madness, murder and mayhem.

In the beginning, Bill tells Michael he doesn’t kiss, it’s too personal. 91zPkARPREL._SL1500_But by the end, he can’t kiss Michael enough. He’s very possessive of Michael, but he’s just as protective of his human lover. They even have the whole meet the parents drama most couples face right down to the grand parents that have joined a prayer group to pray for Michael’s soul. You know, since he’s going to hell and all for being in love with another man.

The writing was off the chains intense, serious and yet, slightly hysterical. It mirrored the storyline and the characters which only made the story that much better. It’s a dark, fantasy world where vamps live out in the open and at the same time, the way Price has written the characters the story has a depth of reality to it. There are several twists and turns along the way, Michael gets himself into a tight spot here and there and you are left to wonder if Bill will always be there, be himself.

Narrated by Gomez Pugh, the story is written and told from alternating POV, from both Michael and Bill’s perspectives. I absolutely loved the way Pugh conveyed the character of Michael. He was headstrong and driven, even a bit on the melancholy side at times, and Pugh nailed that throughout. Then there was the raspy, sexy tone he used for Wild Bill.

There were a few times during the more erotic aspects of the story that Pugh had to go back and forth from one mind to the other and he did an amazing job of keeping each guy completely separate voice wise, as well as enticing the listener with lovely little moans and groans.

I had just one little issue with this story. It is just a deal breaker for me. I absolutely loath the term ‘piss slit’. It makes my skin crawl. It is not even remotely sexy, romantic or endearing. If I read or hear those two words being used one after the other, I will mark off for it every time. I usually take off a point for the term, but I loved this sexy, psychotic duo so much, I’m only taking off half a point.

If you like vampire stories, especially True Blood, you’ll really enjoy this concoction of serials. I felt liked Wild Bill was a lot like Bill in that series. Just if Bill had fallen for Lafayette instead of Sookie!

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