Wicked Game (WVMP Radio #1)
LATE NIGHT RADIO YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTO Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, '60s psychedelia,...
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LATE NIGHT RADIO YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTO Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, '60s psychedelia, '80s goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers just how the DJs maintain their cred: they're vampires, stuck forever in the eras in which they were turned. Ciara's first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But communications giant Skywave wants to buy WVMP and turn it into just another hit-playing clone. Without the station and the link it provides to their original Life Times the vampires would "fade," becoming little more than mindless ghosts of the past. Suddenly a routine corporate takeover is a matter of life and undeath. To boost ratings and save the lives of her strange new friends, Ciara rebrands the station as "WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock 'n' Roll." In the ultimate con, she hides the DJs' vampire nature in plain sight, disguising the bloody truth as a marketing gimmick. WVMP becomes the hottest thing around next to Ciara's complicated affair with grunge vamp Shane McAllister. But the "gimmick" enrages a posse of ancient and powerful vampires who aren't so eager to be brought into the light. Soon the stakes are higher and the perils graver than any con game Ciara's ever played....
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781416566106 (1416566104)
Publish date: September 8th 2009
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: WVMP Radio (#1)
DNF @ 55%This just wasn't holding my attention.
Am I the last person to pick this book up? Really, I am a huge fan of Jeri Smith-Ready and have been ever since I picked up Shade. At that time I had no idea that she also wrote an PNR… *hangs head in shame* The good news is that I know now and am prepared to more than make up for my lapse.WVMP Radi...
This was better than I'd anticipated. The summary made it sound a little cheesy but it was not at all. Yay!
Different take on vampires, unique perspective on the power of Rock and Roll and one of the coolest first books in a series that I have had the pleasure of enjoying in a long time. I am really sold on seeing where the story takes us next in this urban fantasy with a hint of PNR to keep the romantics...