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In Want of a Knife

Updated: Dec 3, 2024


two women reading a book next to a black cat a small village in the background

In Want of a Knife

(Vampire Book Club #5)

By Nancy Warren



 

Dates Read

March 18 - 22

2024

 

Listened through Hoopla

5 hours 49 min

 

Blurb:

What more could a diehard fan ask for? Except that Jane is undead and unamused…


To bookshop owner and witch Quinn Callahan’s delight, Jane Austen shows up for the late-night Vampire Book Club in Ballydehag, Ireland. Quinn’s thrilled and aching to ask her favorite author all the questions every rabid reader has about Jane's books, especially Pride and Prejudice. But Jane isn't in Ballydehag on a social call. She’s on a mission to stop the latest movie version of her most famous book from being made. Having Pride and Prejudice turned into a pornographic film is too much for the undead author to bear.


Dermott Lynch ditched Ballydehag seventeen years ago for the bright lights of Hollywood, leaving behind at least one broken heart and some very bad feelings. Now, he’s back, flashy and full of himself, wowing the townsfolk, and scouting locations for his movie, though it's obvious he’s never read a single page of Pride and Prejudice.


While excitement ripples through the locals at the prospect of having a movie shot in a village that doesn’t see much excitement (in daylight, anyway), the vampires living at Devil’s Keep are far from impressed. They prefer to keep Ballydehag quiet and remote. And Dermott Lynch could ruin it all.


Quinn, Jane, Lochlan Balfour, and his fellow vampires are determined to block this unsavory character from besmirching the classic novel. But as dark feelings grow, rather than a porno, the movie could end up being a murder mystery.

 

Thoughts:

I could not stop laughing at this one. Like I know their upset that Dermott wants to turn P & P into a porno but like really? Jane Austen is over two hundred years old and she lives with a tech mogul vampire, and no one has explained to her the importance of rule 34. Also, Quinn who was most likely in college during the advent of the internet who also lives next to tech mogul vampire, does not understand that rule 34 exists. I think that is where my suspension of disbelief disappears. Also I have too much fun saying Pride and Prejudice Porno.

I guess I just feel like the two ladies are a little too uptight about this. Especially when everyone in the town is saying how good it will be for the village. I have a hard time being on their side.

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