Wicked Game

Wicked Game by Jeri Smith-Ready is a book about saving vampires who work as DJ's at a radio station. Ciara Griffin is trying to turn over a new leaf and leave conning behind her. She applies for a real job at a radio station as an assistant marketing intern. The station, WMMP, is dying and a rival company, Skywave, is trying to buy it out. Ciara is there to bring in fresh blood (heh heh) and ideas to save the station.

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Ciara learns that the reason the DJ's are so good at playing songs from certain time periods is because they are vampires who are stuck in the time that they became un-dead. They are unable to learn new things or move on, but unlike other vampires they are not fading away because they are able to do what they love. At first she thinks its a cruel joke on her but soon realizes that they really are vampires and that it may be the very thing that could save the station. Hiding the truth in plain sight.

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Falling back on her conning days, she come up with the con of the century. She changes the name of the station to WVMP and launches a major and most popular campaign. Is is enough to save the station from the buy-out? And what about the mysteriously handsome DJ Shane? Is she falling for him, can she fall for him?

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This book was so funny and original. I found myself laughing out loud many times. For example she sees one of the DJ's sipping what she thinks is cranapple juice through a straw.---"He sees me looking at him and grins, his gums a rich red. Oh. It's not cranapple juice. The butterflies in my stomach vomit on each other's wings." (pg 81) This other has something in her writings that I have been looking for, a plot and rich humor. That being said, it is a vampire book so there is some icky parts and some sexy parts. Not harlequin romance, fire in loins and grinding parts or heaving bossom's, but a romp in the bed so to speak. They even have a web-site up http://www.wvmpradio.com/ that has songs from each vampire and their stories too.

Ciara has a MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/ciarawvmp. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to more of Ciara's escapades!

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I give it a 5 out of 5