Book 8), Vampires Are Forever (Argeneau Vampires

A must read if you like paranormal romance. I love the creative way they are immortal not your average vamp! Great writer with just the right amount of sarcasm. Story has suspence and is over all a great read.

Oh Thomas and Inez (his Lifemate) this was a good story. Thomas Argeneau is on a quest to find his aunt and runs into his Lifemate. This was another good one in the series. I will not give any spoilers on this one. Inez Urso was a pretty well thought out character. She was interesting - especially cussing out Thomas in Portuguese. They throw in Bastien, Etienne, Terri and Rachel - it was a nice team up within the book.

This book was a fun, sexy, paranormal read that was like candy for the brain. Sure, it was a little quick – but that’s really what made it even more enjoyable. Who doesn’t love a story that’s entertaining from start to finish?

Thomas, the surfer/lay about/general black sheep of the family is the only one who is free (obviously) to go looking for their missing mother. She’s not actually his mother, but she pretty much raised him, which means he’s going to go. Oh, and there’s also the little fact that he actually isn’t a lay about and has been secretly composing music all these years. There’s some family drama and trauma behind that, but the real story is about him and his lifemate.

Inez is the newly appointed VP who, through a case of new-lifemate-forgetfulness, never found out about vampires. The usually organized Bastian has recently had a bit of trouble staying focused on work issues and things like making sure his higher-ups know everything. This probably wouldn’t have been such a pressing issue if he hadn’t sent Inez to pick up Thomas from the airport and help him search. It’s kind of important to know the person you’re looking for is a vampire.

Their meeting at the airport doesn’t go so well, but their relationship (after the whole “get back, demon” phase) evolves pretty quickly. The lifemate thing helps, I’m sure, but something about the composer and the planner really worked. There’s not some huge resolution to the larger storyline at the end of this book, but I assume they will keep building until we get one. I’m happy just reading love stories about vampires and their mates, so keep ‘em coming!

Ugh what happened to the happy, carefree, funny Thomas?
Why did he have to get a life mate who is a stick in the mud?

I'm so disappointed with this book. I mean seriously, what kind of woman looks at a man after being informed about life mates and things "I have a ready made life mate". This is all Inez was thinking about the entire time she was debating on being with Thomas.

I get that this book had a bit more serious nature to it, because Thomas is looking for the matriarch of the Argeneau family. But is previous books the characters were trying to be killed yet Sands was still able to insert humor into her stories.
Thomas is nothing like he is portrayed in the previous books. Even when he was around Lissianna in the first book, without all the 'dudes' and 'dudettes' he was still a likable and funny character. But the way Sands portrayed him in this book, once he dropped the 90's surfer lingo he is no longer a fun character. I'm not sure how this is possible, considering he had to have some sense of humor and happy personality to keep up this rouse for 200 years.

It's a shame that this series just seems to be going down hill for me. This book and the one before have both been 1 stars for me.

Good story. The dilemma of this one surprised me but it was also a cute one. I'm talking about Thomas and Inez and their real first meeting and the trouble it caused. Oh, they had met briefly some time ago but not very long and hadn't been formally introduced. I really liked Inez, she was just a bundle of contradictions. She was human all the way through and although she is the best on the business side of her life, even she admits she is socially inept. Thomas appears to be a lazy, loaf about dilettante but he's so much deeper than that. Something that Inez began to appreciate about him is his thoughtfulness and old world courtesy. His substitute mother, Marguerite had taught him well and Thomas has those qualities that she didn't know she missed until she experienced them with him. There is humor in this book, sex of course because its a vampire story. Unexpected, until I began to read this series is the pain caused by injuries, healing and turnings.Well, maybe not so much the turnings, most other book about vampires do mention that in one measure or another. I thought that the "history" of how vampires came to be was a good one. This book does finish except for one mystery that must be solved. It is something that leaves room for more adventures with this family.
Other reviewers might have thought that it wasn't a real deep story but I for one did enjoy it.

Vampires Are Forever by Lynsay Sands is the most intriguing series that I have read. Family, grief, loss, love, and healing are themes featured in this book. I loved the characters. Each had their own flaws to work through while dealing with their growing attraction for each other. Vampires are seen as humane creatures in this series. Yes, there are bad ones as there are bad humans. However, these featured vampires are good people. Demanding, emotional, and entertaining to follow. Overall, I loved reading this story.

I received this copy from the publisher. This is my voluntary review.

Thomas has been brought in on the hunt for his missing Aunt. Upon his arrival in London to search for her he meets Inez, an employee of Argeneau Enterprises his cousin has asked her to help Thomas search. The only problem, she doesn't yet know about their kind. After a failed attempt to erase her memory Thomas quickly comes to terms with his new life-mate. Now he has to convince her he's not the evil undead all while trying to locate his aunt. Sent down wrong paths things quickly escalate when someone starts targeting Inez to stop them from finding his aunt. Full of interrupted moments and our favorite Argeneau's, Vampires are Forever was another enjoyable installment.

VAMPIRES ARE FOREVER is another instalment in the Argeneau vampire series this time with Thomas Argeneau as our hero. He's one of the younger immortals (at 200 years old) and when his aunt Marguerite goes missing Thomas is the only one in the family able to go to London to find her. Meeting him at the airport is Inez, a corporate type from his family's U.K Company. She's been teamed with Thomas to help in the search because she knows London unfortunately she doesn't know anything about Vampires. Inez quickly begins to suspect though; Thomas is allergic to the sun, never seems to eat and has excellent night vision she's also pretty sure he just bit her neck.

Thomas and Inez's search soon takes them to Amsterdam, which was a different and fun setting as they receive immeasurable phone tips, wonder the red light district and stop in several cafes and bars. The romance between our couple builds rather quickly as Thomas realizes Inez is his life mate. Inez in turn is uncertain about spending eternity with a guy she just met and doesn't relish the idea of drinking blood although the more she gets to know Thomas the more she likes him. After several more (annoying) phone calls Aunt Marguerite's trail takes them back to England where they again go to restaurants, bars and coffee shops and receive cell phone tips. After Thomas is injured Inez follows up on a lead by herself and briefly goes missing, when she returns she has no memory of where she was or who she was meeting. It seems that another immortal has taken control of her mind and erased the night's events. Now Thomas really has his hands full; he has to find Marguerite, figure out who's controlling Inez and then convince his lifemate to spend eternity with him.

I've now read a couple of Lynsay Sands popular Argeneau series and they are generally quick reads with amusing stories. This instalment however just seemed to go nowhere with characters I couldn't get invested in. The romance was okay but I never really `felt the love'. I enjoyed the scenes in Amsterdam especially a funny sub plot where Thomas accidentally drinks some ecstasy laced blood and there are also some spirited conversations as Inez comes to terms with Thomas's true nature but as a whole this story dragged. And although the vampire lore is original here as in past books it annoyed me with the continual `popping' into bags of blood. My biggest frustration though would have to be the amount of cell phone use. It was almost as if `the cell' were a character of its own with Thomas's cousin Bastien checking in every 5 minutes, someone else tracing calls and reporting back and Tomas and Inez calling each other and assorted family members. Its no wonder the story never went anywhere, I mean the first time the phone rang interrupting their kiss or conversation it was cute but by the fifteenth ring it was just frustrating. Cheers.

Marguerite has gone missing and Thomas Argeneau is going to England to look for his aunt.
As Thomas hasn't been to London in years, Bastien sends him someone who works for the Argeneau Enterprise in London. That someone is Inez Urso, a Portuguese fire-cracker.

At first Inez thinks that Thomas is some lazy guy, doing nothing more in life than spending his rich family's money. But then she discovers he has a whole other side to him... he sweet, attentive, smart... she's definitely attracted to the guy... and then he bites her!!! Not just a little love-nibble during their passionate kiss, no, a full-on bite in the neck...

Thomas was having an emergency feed and instead of being able to wipe Inez' memory it goes horribly wrong cause he can't wipe her mind... Not being able to wipe her mind means Inez is his lifemate and she is looking at him like he's a soulless monster... Poor Thomas has a lot of explaining to do and hopefully Inez will come around so that they can live a long life toghether.

VAMPIRES ARE FOREVER - is the 8th book in the Argeneau vampire family saga.

I feel this book is going to be hard to review - as I LIKED it -but after I finished it I kind of wondered if I had liked all that much! I was disappointed that like with TALL DARK AND HUNGRY, the book lacked intensity and depth. I liked the two lead characters - Thomas (a younger vampire in the Argeneau family) and Inez were great couple together. Thomas was portrayed here as a mature and interesting individual - with depth - and not the youngster in the family. Inez was a professional and intelligent woman, able to make decisions and not the usual empty-headed heroine. Unfortunately, the sub-plot, a rather convoluted narration about the "searching for mom" mystery - Marguerite Argeneau, took over rather than focusing on their story.

The book has a beautiful cover but in my opinion VAMPIRES ARE FOREVER was more of a "filler" for the next book VAMPIRE INTERRUPTED - Marguerite's story. The novel ended very abruptly and there was actually no resolution. Frankly, after reading the 370 odd pages, it failed to leave a lasting impression on the lead characters and felt somewhat cheated, as Thomas and Inez story deserved more meatiness to their story and it was rather lacking.

Mostly, the story revolved around them traipsing to Amsterdam and England looking for Marguerite, who is never found and incessant phone calls between Thomas, Bastian and other Argeneau family members...

I believe in creating a cliffhanger scenario for a next book - but VAMPIRES ARE FOREVER had a lot of holes and left plenty of unanswered questions.... I have tremendously enjoyed all of Lynsay Sands' novels (including her historicals), but in the last couple of books I've read, she's had a bit of a hiccup in her writing style. I am just about to start VAMPIRE INTERRUPTED and hope that it reclaims Lynsay's old style.

Still, after all that is said - I did like the story as I finished it. For those hard-core fans of the Argeneaus - you will want to read this one so that you can form your own opinion!

When Argeneau matriarch Marguerite goes missing in London while on one of the first cases in her new private detective career, all the responsible Argeneau's are unable to break away to go hunt for her. So it is up to 'young' cousin Thomas, the surfer-talking prankster of the previous books, to step up and show the others that he can be trusted to handle the important search. When the very efficient workaholic V.P of Argenau Enterprises London branch, Inez Urso, is tapped to act as Thomas' guide, Thomas finds something even more important than his missing aunt, he discovers that the feisty curvy Inez is his lifemate. And while Inez accepts the whole vampire and lifemate stuff without too much trouble - after all it is pretty neat to cut out all that time consuming dating to find Mr. Right and have found your perfect match no muss no fuss - `turning' that's a whole other story. Thomas hasn't mentioned love and while Inez knows that Thomas finds her attractive living forever with someone who doesn't love you doesn't sound all that great to Inez. But while Thomas is clear it's forever or nothing, he doesn't clue Inez in that the reason he will let her go if she doesn't turn is that he couldn't bear to have her only 40 or 50 years to grow to love her even more than he does now only to lose her to old age and death.

I could see what Thomas found so intriguing about Inez, she was great even with all the bizarre vampire stuff thrown at her and she faced her fears and did what needed to be done, and she was perceptive enough to figure things out even when Thomas held out on her. It was nice to see a woman that is supposed to be successful and competent, actually portrayed that way. And Thomas, what a catch. Thomas Argeneau has replaced his cousin Bastien as my favorite of the Argeneau males. While it was fun watching the oh so serious Bastien loosen up in Tall, Dark & Hungry (Argeneau Vampires, Book 4), here I loved seeing the other side of fun-loving Thomas. Sands did a great job of developing Thomas and showing his more serious considerate side while still showing enough of his appealing grinning self to keep him still Thomas and I couldn't help but root for him to win his lifemate the volatile yet shy and competent intelligent Inez. I especially loved watching Thomas endure the karmic pay back for feeding sweet ecstasy to Etienne and Rachel while they were dating in Love Bites (Argeneau Vampires, Book 2) even though fate had a nasty way of sobering him up. And I really liked how Thomas' persuit of Inez matches the character that Sands has created for him. Thomas gave Inez time to fall in love and he valued Inez so much that even when they were all heated up, and responsibilities intruded, he didn't rush and succumb to his hormones and give into his attraction for her. Instead he waited until he had the time to make it perfect for her.

While I really liked Thomas and Inez, there really wasn't much of a background plot in Vampires Are Forever. Inez and Thomas just ran around and it served no purpose other than to put Inez in peril and force a choice that she had already made. I think that the intention was to set up for the next book, but if there was anything significant gleaned here, I missed what it was and I went back and reread the book looking to find it. Also a very minor nit, Sands went a little overboard on the family reunion of the four pairs from previous books that turn up to look for Margerite, only Bastien, Terri, Rachel and Etienne really contributed and newcomers to the series will have no idea who all the rest of the folks are.

Vampires Are Forever isn't the strongest of the eight Argenau books so far, but then it had a hard act to follow with its very original predecessor The Accidental Vampire (Argeneau Vampires, Book 7). Still it had some nice steamy stuff and I loved Thomas -- I could imagine keeping him around for a few centuries -- so 4 stars from me and I can't wait to see what Sands does for Marguerite in the next book, Vampire, Interrupted (Argeneau Vampires, Book 9)due out next month.

One of the most boring books I have ever read. Most of it is about Thomas and Inez following a cell phone signal in Amsterdam. There is only a very small amount of conversation for at least 250 pages. The only part of the book that approaches being interesting is near the end when Thomas and Inez arrive at York and are joined by some of Thomas' relatives and they start doing more than following a cell phone signal. A decent amount of conversation actually takes place.

The book is also very poorly researched, there are discrepancies. The editing leaves a lot to be desired, the punctuation is appalling. For example, Thomas's, instead of Thomas'.

Vampires Are Forever is the only book in the Argeneau series that I don't like. I do not recommend this book.

This is another episode in Lynsay Sands' Argeneau vampire series, with Thomas Argeneau as the hero. Thomas is one of the younger Argeneau Immortals and he thinks that the others see him as rather an aimless kid, despite being 200 years old. When the family release that Thomas's aunt Marguerite has gone missing he is the only one able to drop everything and go to London, where she was last seen, to pick up her trail. Bastien, Thomas's cousin, arranges for one of his UK employees, Inez Urso, to help with the search.

Thomas realises as soon as he meets Inez that she is his lifemate. However their mission to find Marguerite means he can't concentrate just on her but has to follow any leads for his missing Aunt. They travel to Amsterdam and then to York in England on the trail of Marguerite. Unfortunately someone else seems to be trying to stop them and is occasionally taking control of Inez and wiping her memories. Can they find Marguerite, can Inez be kept safe - and how will she take the news that Thomas is a vampire and that he's her destined lifemate?

The Argeneau series is generally good fun and written in a lively way with reasonable pacing. This book, however, was rather a disappointment to this reader. Firstly the overall sub-plot, that of the search for Marguerite, wasn't resolved; not only that, the identity of the baddie or baddies wasn't revealed so the book didn't feel completed. Most of the action seemed to be various Argeneaus phoning each other up to talk to each other or Thomas and Inez sitting at a café in various cities. The descriptions of Amsterdam were good but the lack of meatiness in the plot meant that this book wasn't very satisfying. Fans of the series will enjoy it but it isn't one of the better offerings in this series.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008

I don't usually rate books, but with the new iPad kindle app it's right at the end of the book so here goes:

As usual it was a very entertaining read. Once you read one of lynsay sands books about the argeneau family you will want to go back and read the rest. I have loved getting to know the family and Thomas especially deserved to get his lifemate. You first met him in lissianas story as the loving goofy brother like figure who helped lissianas and irritated his elders with his seeming lack of seriousness.

If I had one complaint about this book and the whole serious is you don't get to know the characters as much as I would like. For instance you never find out about Thomas's music. In my opinion to many sex scenes while I would rather know more about the characters. Still over all a really good read.

Vampires are forever is a wonderful mystery story with one of the most enjoyed scenes where the woman learns the man she's interesting in is a vampire. Nothing like the sudden realization of having Thomas feeding off her when he can't erase her memory and she screams and lock her self in the bath room to cause Thomas Argeneau to panic about what to do. Her fear of loosing her vice president job is stranger than her fear of vampires and had her join Tom for the search for the missing Marguerite Argeneau. This book is totally focus on the missing vampire from Thomas and Inez point of view. You want to know what happens from Marguerite point of view you have to read Argeneau vampires book 9 Vampires interrupted. We have a mysterious vampire that keep erasing Inez mind which bothers both of them as their attempts to get close to her is kept being interrupted.

Although I have been very disappointed in some of the books Ms. Sands has written in the Argeneau novels, and almost swore off to them, I was surprised at Vampires are Forever. I had bought the book along with several others of Ms. Sands, and some of those books were horrible. At first the book started out wherein I was not too attracted to Thomas, as he was a little too sweet...if such a thing can be..... but things changed when poor Thomas was so hungry, planned on biting Inez and then erasing her memory to discover that this could not be done. It only got more interesting from then and I really got into the character of Thomas. The taking of the S.E.C. even added more to his character, because if I was in Inez's shoes, I would have been returning passion for passion, and I absolutely loved that idea of his accidently drinking that type of blood instead. And, it did not turn Inez off. She did not go running for the hills but understood. What I also liked about the book is that Inez was just your average person with brown eyes, a little plump and short. Most heroines have legs that keep on going and beautiful bodies and always, always blue or green eyes. Feeling insecure is only natural when there are long legged, slim beauties walking around and that is how she felt and I got into her character because of that. I liked that Thomas did not care for stick-thin women. I was a little disappointed that some things were left up in the air such as how did things work out between Thomas and Inez as to how were they to adjust, i.e., living where, her continuing to work, etc. But all in all, I liked this book and once into the book, could not get it done. Once again, the house was dark and the pots were cold....I had a hard time putting the book down. As far as sensual romance, she is no Jacquelyn Frank, Kresley Cole or Devyn Quinn....the latter of which writes really steamy books.

Well this wasn't the best of the series. I was a little disappointed with Thomas' book. I had enjoyed him as a minor character in the series most of the way because of his personality. However in this book which is supposed to be his main book, he's almost a filler. The main mystery is about how his aunt has disappeared. I love that it brings all the other couples back from the series but this is Thomas' book. I didn't feel the connection between him and Inez. I felt the ending was extremely rushed and it left you hanging on the mystery. Basically this is just a filler book until you get to the main book which is the next one, Vampire Interrupted. Not sure that I can recommend this one as strongly as I did Ms. Sands' other books because it was so weak.

This is only the 2nd book I've read of this series. I started with 7 and now 8. Even though this book was just OK, I'm tempted to go back and read some of these other novels. I like the basic storyline but I didn't feel a lot of chemistry between these two. One thing I hate is when the heroine is described as not very attractive. It doesn't put a good picture in my head and then I'm wondering what these guys are getting so hot and bothered over. I also thought the story didn't go into Thomas' songwriting enough. They just kind of mentioned it and left it at that. Was he good? did he make a lot of money doing it? I wasn't crazy about the sidestory of trying to find Marguerite but I guess it's just setting things up for the next book.

Another wonderful read. These books are so much fun. I can see why there are so many in the series :). How can Lysany not keep writing them ;).
Marguerite and Tiny have not called in from Europe for three days and Lissiana has had her baby so this is very troubling to the Argeneau family. Bastien sends Thomas to London in search of Marguerite. He sets up Inez a VP for Argeneau to pick Thomas up at the airport and help him around London.
What transpires is full of fun as well as mystery and action. Unlike the prior books this one leaves you hanging on waiting for VAMPIRE INTERRUPTED. I cannot wait. I just love this series.

This is what excellent paranormal-romance genre (blah-blah) writing is all about and why OUR kind of reading promotes 43% of all book sales! The male and female leads in this book are carefully drawn, fully realized individuals with a multitude of fairly reasonable problems they need to solve and would prefer to solve together. The female lead, especially, is not some cotton-headed moron, but a thoughtful, intelligent and experienced woman who can make good decisions using both her brain and her heart. The extra characters and the chase plot are ok, but we really care about the two main people so we'll go along with the rest. The travelogue about Amsterdam and London was really good and I enjoyed it, just as much as the main female character did. The emergency ending makes perfect sense and brings just the perfect touch of extra tension to the story. Top notch all around and a pure pleasure to read.

I loved Thomas's and Inez's story! Like all of Sands' books it had the witty humor along with the mystery. There was just a little something extra about the fact that whenever Inez was angry with Thomas she started speaking to him in Portuguese, leaving him needing translation. And after reading of everyone close to Thomas finding life mates I was happy to finally read his.

Thomas is sent to Europe to find his aunt. Inez works for his family's company in London, so she is asked to help him in the hunt. She doesn't know, however, that he is a vampire. That becomes very clear when he bites her. Thomas did so thinking that he would be able to erase the memory from her mind, but he is unable to read her. In his world, that means that she is his lifemate. While he immediately accepts this, Inez doesn't know him and is more than a little concerned about the fact that he drinks blood. But he explains things to her liking and little by little the thought of spending eternity with him starts sounding good.

The romance wasn't terrible, but the characters weren't that interesting. I never felt connected to them. The vampire lore is unfortunately more science than passion. But, the biggest problem was the syle of writing. The story dragged on and on. Things were repeated in full over and over and every little detail was explained to death. There was a lot of fluff and not that much meat to the tale.

Many others have summarized the plot...

This book is not as strong as the other Sands books because the story is not complete. We never get a resolution to the main plot point in the book, which is: WHere is Margeurite? (That's coming in book 9). Therefore, when the book ends, it seems very sudden. Inez recovers from turning and the immortal seeking to eliminate her is mysteriously eliminated. ANd then stop... Very sudden.

I enjoyed the book, but needed more from it.

I really enjoyed this new Argeneau novel! I especially liked Thomas and Inez' characters. They behaved like real people that I would like to know and it was nice to see them find each other. Also, I appreciate the fact that they behaved like responsible adults, which I am finding increasingly rare in romance novels lately.
The only problem for me was the strong tie-ins with the upcoming novel (Marguerite's story). It is going to be hard to wait a month to see what happens next!

Bought the book at the airport and it made for a frothy, fun read on a cross-country flight. It would have been much more enjoyable and I might have bought other books from the series however, if Ms. Sands (or her editor) had been in possession of a thesaurus. The word "peer" as a verb was used so many times in the first few chapters that I began to suspect the author was attempting to employ some goofy kind of mind control ("everytime you read the word 'peer' you become more addicted to my writing and must run right out and purchase all of my books!") Thomas peered down at Inez, she peered up at him. He peered out of the darkness, she peered up to the light, they peered around corners, down staircases, into crowds, and across landscapes. It became like a nervous tick and by the end of the book OCD set in and I actually had to go back and count how many times the word came up in the 300 or so pages, it was something like 75. I can't imagine what the author has against gaze, stare, squint, peep, eye, blink, just to name a few. That oddity, plus the overall inattention to sentence structure, grammar, and spellcheck really kept me from being able to immerse myself in the story.

This book was a non stop read for me. I loved the chemistry between Thomas and Inez. And as usual Lynsay Sands writes an awesome plot. I won't go into plot detail here. But I will say that this book had a much darker tone to it then the previous one written in the series. I loved seeing Bastien loosen up and getting updates on the previous characters that we've all read about. I would definately recommend this book to family and friends. Good Reading!!!

I started this series toward the end not realizing the chronological order. I would recommend starting from the beginning. I have enjoyed the plots and this one especially you need to have read the last 2 to 3 books before it to fully understand what is going on as each of those books leaves you with the culmination of the next book, Vampire Interrupted, which I think was one of the best ones so far....

Usually, I like the author's books, but this one is just boring. Characters, plot, sex...everything was boring. I did finish it but was skimming by the end. The same things kept happening again and again and they were not interesting the first time. This book was phoned in.

I thought it was an okay book as a filler between other, better novels. I've enjoyed the previous books in this series and I really liked the Thomas character, alot. I thought he was witty and with a cute, likeable personality. It didn't come through in this book. Plus, the typos were horrible. Overall, it wasn't horrible, just not as good as previous books in this series.

Lynsay Sands pulls you in within the first few paragraphs and keeps you enthralled during the whole book making you want to stay up all night to see if the danger is over come and the two people that are meant to be together are joined and mated the way they should be. She's riveting. Exceptional writer.

Thank you
Michelle

this book is predictable, and juvenile, the author thought it was cute i guess to deface her characters, "thomas and his little thomas" pppplllllllllesaeeeeeeeee!!! after what was a beautiful love scene all respect for this juvenile author and her characters has gone out the window! she should burn her pen!!!!

~and hey! there was no ending!!where's marguerite?! {not that i really care now}

I just loved this book. The characters and the loves scenes are great. The plot even keeps you on the edge of your seat. I had a hard time putting this one down and found my self reading way into the night, 1, 2, or even 3 AM. An excellent book.

this book is predictable, and juvenile, the author thought it was cute i guess to deface her characters, "thomas and his little thomas" pppplllllllllesaeeeeeeeee!!! after what was a beautiful love scene all respect for this juvenile author and her characters has gone out the window! she should burn her pen!!!!

~and hey! there was no ending!!where's marguerite?! {not that i really care now}

I just loved this book. The characters and the loves scenes are great. The plot even keeps you on the edge of your seat. I had a hard time putting this one down and found my self reading way into the night, 1, 2, or even 3 AM. An excellent book.

This book is actually good but, you will want to go back and start at the beginning. This series is very addicting. Once you start reading about
the Argeneau family you will not be able to stop. This book is funny, full of action scenes and a hero that makes you wish you were part of the book Just to be with him. You will love him From the beginning what woman would not fall in love with a man that is sexy,handsome,considerate,sexy,and loves his family the way thomas does. read it and I guarantee you that you will want to read the rest in the series.

I've read almost all of Lyndsay Sands' books and this was the one I really didn't care for. The female (Inez) constantly badmouths her appearance and has very low self esteem which made the book less appealing to me. Plot about finding Marguerite was ignored through most of it and they never resolve it in the end. I did like that the whole family was working together at the end when Inez was turned. If you love this series, you can skip this book and not miss anything.

I enjoy the Argeneau series, and I've enjoyed Thomas' character over the years. This was a fun book.

But man, do they have editors?? I try really hard to overlook spelling and grammatical errors, but sometimes they are so frequent that they interfere with the pleasure of reading. Ex: "She was starving and could have killed a cup of tea..." Now, perhaps Ms. Sands meant that Inez would have killed the cup of tea by drinking it, but I *suspect* what she meant to say was that she would have killed FOR a cup of tea. This is one of many, many, many spelling and grammatical errors throughout the book. I could have streaked this sucker up with a red pen all over the place.

Also, I can't help but agree with a previous reviewer that the main characters spent an inordinate amount of time just running around. Here I am in Amsterdam, and boy I just can't believe that Marguerite would go to the red light district, even though I know she's on a case and could easily have a reason to do so. Or gee I can totally believe that Marguerite, whom I've known all of my very long life, would mind-rape an innocent woman, even when a small look into her mind would reveal she's my lifemate. It just seemed so out of character for them to assume some of the things that they did.

While I didn't mind that the book wasn't a complete story in its own right, I didn't care for the fact that the book ended VERY suddenly and that there was absolutely no resolution to any of the questions brought up. And I'm not talking about plot questions! I can accept that more answers to THOSE will be forthcoming in the next book. But does Inez go to Canada, or do she and Thomas decide to live in the UK? Is she going to keep working the long, hard hours she has been, or does Thomas really fill the void that she was previously filling with work (Ms. Sands words, not mine)? It's as if poor Thomas got the short end of the stick when it came to rounding out his story.

Anyway, I guess I just came away from this book feeling as if it was lacking something. I DID enjoy it, don't get me wrong. It was also a very quick and easy read, which I like my romance novels to be. I just would have liked a bit more... oomph in the story.

Edited to add: It's truly amazing how people abuse the ratings system. Didn't find this review helpful? Okay, fine, but don't go through every review I've written and vote unhelpful on them out of spite or some sense of misplaced loyalty (reviews that have NEVER had an unhelpful rating now have TWO unhelpful votes? I don't think so). That's just obnoxious and immature.

Also Edited to Add: I finally got to read "The Accidental Vampire", and I must say I enjoyed it! It was edited much better than this one, and the story was very clever. I would give it a review, but it got a rating that I would have given it, so I'm okay with that. Hopefully "Vampire, Interrupted" (which is sitting on my nightstand) will be on par with "The Accidental Vampire", which is a much better representation of the series.

Edited again to add that I read "Vampire, Interrupted", which I very much enjoyed. It too has gotten reasonable reviews. While it had some of the same problems that this book did with re: editing/spelling/grammar, and I thought some of it was a bit far fetched plot-wise, I enjoyed the storyline and the characters. I think it's fair to say that this book ("Vampires are Forever" in case you've forgotten what this review was about, lol), was more of a fluke in the series than anything else.

Once again, Lynsay Sands has kept the Argeneau family stories crisp and quick moving. Marquerite, the matriarch of the family, wants a career and gets one with all the resulting problems. As a private investigator results in problems, threats on her life and the rediscovery of a part of her past that even she doesn't remeber. Great read, as are all of hers.

I tend to agree with another reviewer that Sands' editor let her down. Too bad, for it is a pretty good read.

Editor of Michele Cozzens' award winning women's fiction A Line Between Friends

Vincent was raised by Marguerite Argeneau just like the others. Why can't all mothers be like Marguerite? All men would be gentlemen and all women would be ladies. This is a wonderful saga of the Argeneau vampire clan. This a must read for any vampire novel enthusiast.

I really enjoy this series and keep waiting for the books to start getting stale or boring. It just isn't happening. I thought this was great. The main characters were wonderful together and they brought a lot of the family back in which made it even better. I can't wait for the next one.

This book was the s*!t, intriguing from the begining to the end. This book was the best out of the Argeneau series hands down.The others were good; the runner up to this book was vampire interrupted. This book takes the cake, Go Thomas!

This is one of the best books in this series. It leaves you anxious for the next book though. I can't wait to find out what happens to Marguerite. I really enjoyed this book, editing errors did not decrease my enjoyment. My favorite book in the series is still A Bite to Remember.