The Edible Bookshelf: New Book: SNAP: The World Unfolds

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The Edible Bookshelf is a place to share thoughts about the books you're reading, good or bad. I love to read, but I don't want to keep good books to myself. Not to mention, I don't want anyone else to have to suffer through a terrible book. Nobody wants that! I read fast, and I read a lot (although lately much of my reading is teeth related). Plus I write, which means I might be a little more critical than other readers, but I also read books for enjoyment. I don't like books with holes in the plot, story lines only put in purely for shock value, or token characters thrown in to appease critics. What I do like are books that have realistic characters that make me care about them and stories that pull me in to the point that I can't put them down. So here's a place to find out what at least one avid reader/writer thinks about the books you've been hearing about. I'll give you my honest opinion, take it or leave it. And if you have a book you've read, or one you want me to read, pass it along. Happy reading everyone!

Monday, June 11, 2012

New Book: SNAP: The World Unfolds

Amazingly enough, this is the first vampire book I've had on The Edible Bookshelf. So we're in for something new this week in that sense, but in another sense vampires are a familiar topic for just about everyone today. The real question is, what kind of vampire book is this? Read on to find out!

"SNAP, a multinational celeb TV show and magazine, is the holy grail for Maxie Gwenoch. When she snags the job as managing editor, she's looking for fame, fortune and Jimmy Choos. What she finds is a media empire owned by Baron Kandesky and his family. A family of vampires. They're European, urbane, wealthy and mesmerizing. And when she meets Jean-Louis, vampire and co-worker, she's a goner.

The Kandesky vampire family rose in Hungary centuries ago. They gave up violence and killing to make a killing on the world's commodities markets and with that beginning they built SNAP, an international celebrity multimedia empire. Now cultured...and having found food substitutes for killing...they’ve cornered the world market for celebrity and gossip journalism.

They haven't fully left the past behind. Their Hungarian neighbors and rival vampire clan, the Huszars are starting to ramp up attacks, maybe looking to start a war to take over all the Kandeskys have built.

Maxie believes she's found her ultimate career. She doesn't realize that she's found a family feud like none other, a centuries-old rivalry between vampire families, with her as the linchpin. Bells ring with Jean-Louis, but she doesn’t realize they’re alarm sirens until she learns that Jean-Louis is second in command of the Kandeskys...but by then it's too late."

Michele Drier's, SNAP: The World Unfolds, is the first book in "The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles," and it is currently available now Amazon for only $0.99! So take advantage of the low price being offered for a limited time as part of the two week Book Blowout put on by the Indie Romance Writers Group. Another of Michele's books, Edited for Death, is also currently on sale for $0.99 on Amazon as a part of the same promotion, and will be featured next month on the blog, so get your copy now before the Book Blowout ends on June 22nd.

Book two of The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles, SNAP: New Talent, is also currently available on Amazon.