Book Beginnings and Friday 56 - The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters by Sierra Dean

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• Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments. 
• Make sure to share the name of the book and the author so we know what you're reading. 
• Feel free to share your first impressions with us based on the first line. 
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My choice this week for Book Beginnings and Friday 56 is The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters by Sierra Dean, her novella prequel to the Secret McQueen series.

As a general rule, people don’t like to date monsters.

I don’t mean in a my ex-boyfriend was such an asshole, he was a total monster to my friends or that girl was a monster bitch kind of way. What I mean is, ask your average New Yorker if they’d like to have a girlfriend whose primary source of food was human blood, and most of them will say no.

My thoughts: This is already off to a funny start. I may have thought some of my dates were montsers but I get the feeling I'm going to find out differently...lol

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda at Freda's Voice. To play along:

• Grab the book closest to you, any book will do.

• Turn to page 56.

• Choose the fifth (5th) sentence or a few more (just don't spoil it too much).

• Post it on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, post it in the comments below.

• Link your post to Freda's Voice.

My 56 is also from The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters by Sierra Dean:

I sighed, thinking of my family’s definition of togetherness—in general it involved them poring over an old, moldering text while I looked on in irritation. It was not what I wanted in a marriage, though I supposed at my age I could not afford to be particular. In December I would be twenty-seven years old, an age my sister Sarah assured me was positively ancient. “But I am spoken for.”

My Thoughts:  I'm afraid Secret's sister would think I am a walking corpse since I'm not married and I'm definitely over 27....lol

About The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters by Sierra Dean:

Are blind dates supposed to be this bloody?

A Secret McQueen story

They say it's impossible to find a man in New York City. Secret McQueen needs to find two in one night. Of course, it’ll mean pulling off the impossible—find and kill a displaced rogue vampire without disrupting the first promising date she’s had in ages. As a werewolf hybrid used to walking a fine line of survival in the vampire world, though, Secret eats impossible for breakfast.

Somewhere between hello and the first round of drinks, Secret makes her move. Her target, Hollywood’s biggest star, shouldn’t be hard to spot. Just look for swarms of fans. Except every time her vampire liaison, Holden, helps keep her mission on track, her date runs further off the rails.

Either Holden has a hidden agenda, or he knows more than he’s letting on about her quarry. One way or another, Secret is determined to get her man, and meet Mr. Right. Or die trying.

Product Warnings

This book contains a sword-wielding assassin whose barbs are sharper than her blade, a vampire with serious brooding issues but a skilled tongue, and an A-lister with a bad habit of eating his fans. This novella takes place approximately one year prior to the events of Something Secret This Way Comes.

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