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- Publisher: Playaway (Jun 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1616579161
- ISBN-13: 978-1616579166
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"Cabot, adored for her Princess Diaries series and Heather Wells mysteries, holds her own in the crowded paranormal arena, proving that she is truly a versatile, entertaining writer."
- Booklist
"No one quite brings the sexy-times like Meg Cabot. Especially when she takes on the world of vampires in Insatiable."
- Good Books & Good Wine
“Cabot winningly applies her trademark likably fallible protagonists and breezy storytelling to a vampire war in New York City”
- Publishers Weekly
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From the best-selling author of PRINCESS DIARIES comes this supernatural romance with real bite…
Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.
Meena Harper is familiar with the supernatural. After all, she knows how you're going to die (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.)
But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for Lucien Antonescu—who she meets and then makes the mistake of falling in love with—a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side for which an ancient society of vampire hunters would prefer to see him dead.
The problem is Lucien's already dead. Maybe that's why he's the first guy Meena's ever met with whom she could imagine herself having a future. See, while Meena's always been able to see everyone else's destiny, she's never been able look into her own. Lucien seems to be everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, though he might turn out to be more of a nightmare.
So now would be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future . . . if she has one.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Meena hates vampires. They're ruining her life.
First, they invade her work. Meena doesn't get the promotion to head writer she's been hoping to achieve. Then they announce the popular daytime drama will be adding a vampire storyline to compete with its major competition.
Second, there's a serial killer on the loose, leaving dead female bodies drained of their blood in the various parks of New York City.
Third, Meena goes out to walk her dog, Jack Bauer, in the middle of the night. She's attacked by numerous bats, but protected by a mysterious man. She almost thinks she dreamed this late night incident.
Fourth, she starts dating this man after meeting him again at a party, only to discover he's a vampire prince - ruler of all vampires. She discovers the truth about her boyfriend after a member of Palatine, Alaric Wolf, comes to warn her and worm his whereabouts out of her. She refuses to give up his location, even when she realizes that he IS the prince of darkness.
Lucien, despite his family history, seems to love Meena and wants to protect her. However, Alaric Wolf can't stand by and let that happen. He's determined to rescue Meena if it's the last thing he does.
When she puts everything together, Meena's seriously annoyed, but with a vampire war looming, which side will she end up on?
I LOVED this book. Meena is sweet with a wicked sense or humor, snarky, and feisty. Plus, she has a secret where she can see how people are going to die. Her vampire romance is sexy and sweet. Lucien's one part charming and one part dangerous. Wolf is amusing. Meena's vampire neighbors are hilarious - always causing a ruckus in the vampire world, all in the name of matchmaking. All in all, it's a charming, sexy read full of romance, danger, protective men, and one kick-butt heroine.
While this is an adult novel, I think some older teens will naturally gravitate towards it because it's Meg Cabot - and also vampires!
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
First, they invade her work. Meena doesn't get the promotion to head writer she's been hoping to achieve. Then they announce the popular daytime drama will be adding a vampire storyline to compete with its major competition.
Second, there's a serial killer on the loose, leaving dead female bodies drained of their blood in the various parks of New York City.
Third, Meena goes out to walk her dog, Jack Bauer, in the middle of the night. She's attacked by numerous bats, but protected by a mysterious man. She almost thinks she dreamed this late night incident.
Fourth, she starts dating this man after meeting him again at a party, only to discover he's a vampire prince - ruler of all vampires. She discovers the truth about her boyfriend after a member of Palatine, Alaric Wolf, comes to warn her and worm his whereabouts out of her. She refuses to give up his location, even when she realizes that he IS the prince of darkness.
Lucien, despite his family history, seems to love Meena and wants to protect her. However, Alaric Wolf can't stand by and let that happen. He's determined to rescue Meena if it's the last thing he does.
When she puts everything together, Meena's seriously annoyed, but with a vampire war looming, which side will she end up on?
I LOVED this book. Meena is sweet with a wicked sense or humor, snarky, and feisty. Plus, she has a secret where she can see how people are going to die. Her vampire romance is sexy and sweet. Lucien's one part charming and one part dangerous. Wolf is amusing. Meena's vampire neighbors are hilarious - always causing a ruckus in the vampire world, all in the name of matchmaking. All in all, it's a charming, sexy read full of romance, danger, protective men, and one kick-butt heroine.
While this is an adult novel, I think some older teens will naturally gravitate towards it because it's Meg Cabot - and also vampires!
Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I listened to "Insatiable" on my iPod, and must say that I really liked it! Meena is a great heroine, both witty and charming. Vampire Lucien was suitably brooding, vampire hunter Alaric was to-die-for (pun intended) and the supporting characters are also likable.
"Insatiable" is a humorous look at the current obsession with vampires --- whether it's in books, on television or in movies. Despite that, though, I wouldn't classify this book as your typical "Paranormal Romance" book. Both the story idea and execution are different from most books in that genre, and I actually found that very refreshing.
The book has a "real" ending (no cliffhanger) and yet it does a good job at setting up the sequel (which will be released in summer 2011). The love triangle isn't resolved in this book, and I'm looking forward to finding out how Meena will deal with her two very different suitors.
Another reviewer here called the book "Twilight for Adults", but I don't agree with that. The only similarity between "Insatiable" and "Twilight" is that there are vampires in both books --- that's it.
One note regarding the audio book --- I don't remember the name of the woman who read it, but she did a really great job! Her voice kinda sounds like that of the actress Anne Hathaway, and I'm pretty sure that is to blame for me seeing Ms. Hathaway as Meena in my mind (she'd actually be really great for the role if they ever make a movie out of the book) ... ;o)
"Insatiable" is a humorous look at the current obsession with vampires --- whether it's in books, on television or in movies. Despite that, though, I wouldn't classify this book as your typical "Paranormal Romance" book. Both the story idea and execution are different from most books in that genre, and I actually found that very refreshing.
The book has a "real" ending (no cliffhanger) and yet it does a good job at setting up the sequel (which will be released in summer 2011). The love triangle isn't resolved in this book, and I'm looking forward to finding out how Meena will deal with her two very different suitors.
Another reviewer here called the book "Twilight for Adults", but I don't agree with that. The only similarity between "Insatiable" and "Twilight" is that there are vampires in both books --- that's it.
One note regarding the audio book --- I don't remember the name of the woman who read it, but she did a really great job! Her voice kinda sounds like that of the actress Anne Hathaway, and I'm pretty sure that is to blame for me seeing Ms. Hathaway as Meena in my mind (she'd actually be really great for the role if they ever make a movie out of the book) ... ;o)
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94 of 110 people found the following review helpful
What?!? How could ANYONE give this five stars?!
16 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover
I am a massive fan of Meg Cabot and her adult books... they're fantastic. I read "Boy Next Door" at least once a year, usually with a glass of wine and a bottle of nail polish. I am imploring you to take me seriously because I sincerely want to save you from reading this book, and lessening your opinion of Meg Cabot.
There are pop culture references that are dry and uninteresting. Mentioning characters like Sookie Stackhouse from True Blood and Edward from True Blood and Buffy doesn't lessen the painfully obvious rip-offs--Meg Cabot's characters are an awkward combination of those three. (And Jon, the funny, down on his luck brother? Jason Stackhouse, anybody?!?!)
Even worse, the plot gets SO RIDICULOUS--I won't spoil it, but please believe me! The plot starts promising and jumps off the deep end. Characters make massive personality changes without much explanation, and the main love interest, Lucien (arguably the only likeable character in the book, although it seems at times that he's BARELY IN IT--what kind of romance has an MIA hero?!) loses all of his appeal in the last few chapters.
Meg Cabot, I love your writing. I will continue to buy your books. Just don't sell out like this!! And if you do, please make the book not quite so stupid.
ALSO: if anyone is looking for a funny, romantic, guilty-pleasure romance writer...try Kerrelyn Sparks. She's wonderful and cheesy, but mostly wonderful.
There are pop culture references that are dry and uninteresting. Mentioning characters like Sookie Stackhouse from True Blood and Edward from True Blood and Buffy doesn't lessen the painfully obvious rip-offs--Meg Cabot's characters are an awkward combination of those three. (And Jon, the funny, down on his luck brother? Jason Stackhouse, anybody?!?!)
Even worse, the plot gets SO RIDICULOUS--I won't spoil it, but please believe me! The plot starts promising and jumps off the deep end. Characters make massive personality changes without much explanation, and the main love interest, Lucien (arguably the only likeable character in the book, although it seems at times that he's BARELY IN IT--what kind of romance has an MIA hero?!) loses all of his appeal in the last few chapters.
Meg Cabot, I love your writing. I will continue to buy your books. Just don't sell out like this!! And if you do, please make the book not quite so stupid.
ALSO: if anyone is looking for a funny, romantic, guilty-pleasure romance writer...try Kerrelyn Sparks. She's wonderful and cheesy, but mostly wonderful.
28 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Meg Cabot joins the vampire bandwagon
20 April 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review
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Best-selling young adult author Meg Cabot turns to vampires in this tongue-in-cheek romance novel, published for adults but suitable for her teenage fans as well. It might be a tiny bit racier than her YA novels, but not by much. The story revolves around New York resident and Soap-opera writer Meena Harper, who is sick of the vampire craze going on around us, and is not happy when the powers-that-be on her soap inform her that she's going to have to incorporate a plot line featuring vampires in order to jump-start their ratings. The character of Meena herself fits into the current craze for paranormal fiction, since she has a unique ability to see when people are going to die when she looks at them. This sometimes helps her warn her friends to escape danger, but sometimes nobody believes her warnings. Meena is content living a single life with her brother and her cute little dog, when who should visit her neighbors but a mysterious Romanian prince named Lucien, whom she falls in love with. He's the only one that she can't forsee when he's going to die, but she doesn't realize that it's because he's already dead! Not only is he a vampire, he is the son of the famous Dracula and is the leader of the vampire community--the supreme ruler of the vampires. Will she and Lucien live happily ever after? Cabot tells this story with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor; for example, when Meena discovers Lucien's true identity, she decides she will write a book to save other women from what she was going through: "Women are from Venus, Vampires are from Hell." The publisher calls it a "modern day sequel to Dracula," although I think it is a book much more for romance readers and Cabot's teenaged fan girls and certainly not for fans of real horror fiction. Recommended for a fun escape novel, perfect as a summer beach read.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Fangy Fun
22 April 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review
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I ordered this book thinking it was for teens, and it turns out to be for adults--although older teens might enjoy it, too. (There are a few racy passages.) Meg Cabot's books are always so cheery, whatever their genre, that I just get a kick out of them. Besides, I wanted to watch Cabot poke fun at Twilight and the current rage for vampire stories, which is what the book summary seemed to promise... And yep, Insatiable is pretty much "Buffy meets Bella," with some mind reading thrown in because why not? [Some spoilers below!]
Meena Harper writes for a daytime soap, and she is appalled when she is assigned to write a vampire storyline. "'Vampires,' Meena said. 'Real original, Metzenbaum.' Shoshona stood up, slinging her bag over her shoulder . 'Get over it, Harper. They're everywhere. You can't escape them.'"
Which just might explain why Cabot wrote this book! But Meena doesn't catch on for pages, not until a macho vampire slayer holds her hostage in her apartment, demanding the location of her new boyfriend's pad. That would be the gorgeous Romanian prince Meena thinks is just perfect--until she gets the scoop on his supernatural secret. It turns out Lucien is in New York because he's trying to track down the idiot who's been draining human girls and leaving their corpses around the city, stirring up trouble for the secretive vampire community.
Pretty soon Meena--another of Cabot's feisty heroines--is attracting a lot of vampire attention because of her own secret: when she meets someone, she knows when and how they're going to die. It seems odd to her that she doesn't know this about Lucien (who's already dead); think psychic Sookie Stackhouse and her attraction to seemingly blank-minded vampire Bill.
Of course, as in any Cabot book, we get a lot of humor, most of it clever enough to make readers smile. There's Meena's anxious dog, Jack Bauer, for example, who turns out to be more tuned in to vampires than his owner. Also characters like a vampire slayer with an anger management problem, a geeky boss, and a fondness for high-class hotels. Insatiable is a fairly predictable vampire romance/adventure story, which eventually leads to a love triangle and a big, climactic fight scene. There's definitely room for a sequel here.
You might get a sense, as I did, that the book starts out tongue-in-cheek, but ends up taking itself a little too seriously. After all, it's hard to tell the difference between spoof and non-spoof when the female lead is a super-magnet for every major hunk in sight. Exactly why is someone like Lucien so enthralled by a girl like Meena, who's not the deepest person you'll ever meet? (Eternal soulmates--again!) I realize this goes back to wish fulfillment for the Everywoman reader, but I would have liked to see a bit more richness to Meena's character just the same.
Still, Insatiable is a light romp through vampire territory, a nice beach book for anyone who's up for paranormal romance. Note that Meena, perhaps because she's a little older, does seem to have more common sense than Stephenie Meyer's Bella, at least in Book 1. Who knows what she'll do in Book 2?
Meena Harper writes for a daytime soap, and she is appalled when she is assigned to write a vampire storyline. "'Vampires,' Meena said. 'Real original, Metzenbaum.' Shoshona stood up, slinging her bag over her shoulder . 'Get over it, Harper. They're everywhere. You can't escape them.'"
Which just might explain why Cabot wrote this book! But Meena doesn't catch on for pages, not until a macho vampire slayer holds her hostage in her apartment, demanding the location of her new boyfriend's pad. That would be the gorgeous Romanian prince Meena thinks is just perfect--until she gets the scoop on his supernatural secret. It turns out Lucien is in New York because he's trying to track down the idiot who's been draining human girls and leaving their corpses around the city, stirring up trouble for the secretive vampire community.
Pretty soon Meena--another of Cabot's feisty heroines--is attracting a lot of vampire attention because of her own secret: when she meets someone, she knows when and how they're going to die. It seems odd to her that she doesn't know this about Lucien (who's already dead); think psychic Sookie Stackhouse and her attraction to seemingly blank-minded vampire Bill.
Of course, as in any Cabot book, we get a lot of humor, most of it clever enough to make readers smile. There's Meena's anxious dog, Jack Bauer, for example, who turns out to be more tuned in to vampires than his owner. Also characters like a vampire slayer with an anger management problem, a geeky boss, and a fondness for high-class hotels. Insatiable is a fairly predictable vampire romance/adventure story, which eventually leads to a love triangle and a big, climactic fight scene. There's definitely room for a sequel here.
You might get a sense, as I did, that the book starts out tongue-in-cheek, but ends up taking itself a little too seriously. After all, it's hard to tell the difference between spoof and non-spoof when the female lead is a super-magnet for every major hunk in sight. Exactly why is someone like Lucien so enthralled by a girl like Meena, who's not the deepest person you'll ever meet? (Eternal soulmates--again!) I realize this goes back to wish fulfillment for the Everywoman reader, but I would have liked to see a bit more richness to Meena's character just the same.
Still, Insatiable is a light romp through vampire territory, a nice beach book for anyone who's up for paranormal romance. Note that Meena, perhaps because she's a little older, does seem to have more common sense than Stephenie Meyer's Bella, at least in Book 1. Who knows what she'll do in Book 2?
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