Vampire, Interrupted by Lynsay Sands

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She’s training to be a private investigator, and her first assignment is to find an immortal’s mother. It seemed simple enough, until Marguerite wakes up one evening to find herself at the wrong end of a sword. Now she realizes she’s in way over her head.

Julius Notte wants to protect Marguerite, and not because someone just tried to take her head off. She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s his lifemate and he’s determined to woo her. It’s been over five hundred years since he last courted a woman, but surely the techniques haven’t changed. Now if only he can keep her alive—so to speak—so they can have that happily-ever-after.

Vampire, Interrupted

Marguerite’s story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🤎💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌏
Character development: 😠☺️😋
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Marguerite Argeneau – she is an immortal who has been alive for seven centuries. She was married before though not to a fated mate. She has several children and helped raise a nephew, though since she is immortal, she looks like she is about 25 years old. Recently she decided to become a private investigator. She wanted something more out of life after her husband died, he was an immortal but not her fated mate, and was a bully and a jerk who liked to control her and their children.

The Story: When Marguerite is attacked by a man with a sword in her hotel room, she realizes that the job she took on might be a bit too much for her. She was working with a human man named Tiny to try to find the mother of another immortal, Christian Notte, who only knew that he’d been born in England and his father returned home with him to Italy when he was only a few days old.

The Hero: Julius Notte – he is the father of Christian and knows immediately that Marguerite is his fated mate. He is old and hasn’t been interested in women for over 500 years, so is a bit out of practice. When he first meets Marguerite and finds her in bed in Tiny’s room, after seeing her room in shambles, he is far from pleased and roughs up Tiny.

I love the first meeting between the two main characters in a romance and this was a good one. I loved that Julius gets jealous and protective from the get go. I am not too fond of books where the female is a vampire, but I have liked Marguerite quite a bit since I have read many books in this series and Marguerite is always the one the matchmaker of the family, finding possible fated mates for many of her family members. Marguerite is a good character and after being controlled by her husband for so many centuries, she is just starting to find herself.

This book was told in multiple points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Victoria Mcgee who has a soft, feminine voice which is pleasing and she is a good narrator. Her voice is a bit breathy but overall she did a good job for Marguerite’s the inner voice, though I wasn’t fond of her interpretation of Marguerite’s actual voice, as it sounded like a prissy old lady, not a twenty five year old, which is how old the nano’s keep Marguerite. I tend to like male narrators better than female anyway, so there is that.

The story was good, though not one of the best in the series. I am glad I listened to it to find out more about Marguerite as a character, though I found it sometimes hard to concentrate on the narration and lost my place more than a few times, I think it was the narrator’s voice that got to me more than anything.

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