Jane Jameson is an average girl – she works in the children’s
department at the local library, lives in an historical home in her Southern hometown of Half Moon Hollow, and has
an overbearing mother who would love to see her get married and settle down. However when she becomes fired from the
library, it sets off a chain of events including potato skins, getting
rip-roaring drunk, being mistaken for a deer, and waking up undead in the home
of her handsome sire, Gabriel Nightengale.
As she stumbles her way through her new life, er…death, she learns to deal with coming out of the
coffin to her family, renews a relationship with the ghost of her dead aunt, and
struggles with her growing attraction to Gabriel - all while being framed for vampire murders!
A friend of mine gifted me the first book in Molly Harper's Nice Girl
series, Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs, after she read it and loved it. I started it and was hooked – in fact the worst
part was waiting the week for the next books in the series to become available
from the library! It’s not the deepest
read, but it is incredibly entertaining. The characters are slightly over the
top, but in that way that they remind you of someone who is just like that, you
know? The main character Jane? Well, I just love her. She’s secretly insecure on the inside, endearingly accident prone, still trying to find her place, and totally and completely
sarcastic. Her mind and feelings were
real to me, and I could totally see myself in her – except for I’m not nearly
as fabulously sarcastic, lol. Jane had
me hooked on the series within the first chapter – I had to see what happened
with her.
The Nice Girl series continues with Nice Girls Don’t Date
Dead Men, Nice Girls Don’t Live Forever, and Nice Girls Don’t Bite Their
Neighbours. We get to see Jane continue
to grow and change all while charging through increasingly impossible
situations – and the supporting characters get their lives nicely wrapped up as
well. I found that while I enjoyed the
series, I was glad it ended where it did.
I found myself giving a bit of a “Really? Come on!” at the events of
book 4 as it was starting to be just a little too much, but it was easy to put
aside in order to see how the lives of everyone turned out.
Overall I give 4.5
stars to the Nice Girl series. The books are funny and entertaining, with
enough suspense and romance to keep things rolling. Purely enjoyable, feel-good
books – which I think we all need more of sometimes. All of the books in the series are available from major retailers, and you may even find them at your local library as I did.
