The second book in the Chicagoland series is just as great as the first. I couldn't put it down. You want to see what happens to Merit with her new-found vampirism and the vampires around her, as well as dealing with her human side and friends.

I laughed out loud, I wanted to yell at Merit, I was entranced by the story.

Friday Night Bites is the second instalment in the Chicagoland vampires series. It has no issue sucking you back deep into this addictive, bloody world instantaneously.

Merit, stunningly beautiful and just as stunningly stubborn, is adjusting to her life as a vampire. Stubbornness aside, Merit is beginning to put a real effort into embracing her part in the bloodsucking world. She grabs the bull by the horns when it comes to being protector of her vampire based home, Cadogan, and by default playing bodyguard to the hunky and oh so swoony Master of the House, Ethan. A powerful job with perks and immortality.. what can go wrong? With all perks come some hard, yet entertaining, downfalls. Merit struggles to keep her human connections strong, but it begins to feel like an uphill battle. Her new assignment makes her juggle the past she ran from the uncertainty of her future. To add to the strain, Mallory, Merit's next best thing to a sister, goes through her own magical changes. Life would suck all over if it wasn't for the hot pieces of a$$ flocking around these drama-magnet, sexy supes.

In the bigger picture, Vampires in general are having just as much trouble. Paparazzi has turned the creatures of the night into the current celebrity and I'm sure if you ask Britney Spears, fame isn't all its cracked up to be. I just hope Merit doesn't pull a head shaving stunt. This limelight turns the rest of the supernatural, in-the-closet beings into vampire enemies. As if Merit didn't have enough in her bloody juice box to handle, she gets put right in the middle of this hot tension filled mess.

I can't even verbalize how much I love the characters in this series. They're all so equally strong, sexy, smart and funny with their own little quarks. I was pleasantly surprised to get all emotionally wrapped up in this mostly light hearted series. Chloe Neil is a very talented author and has wicked skills at putting a story together with the ability of keeping it intriguing, fun and filled with so much sexual tension it makes you feel as if you'll burst. Hot mess, but in all the best ways. I'm, personally, quite smitten with Catcher, so I would've liked to see a smidge more of his skills going down in this instalment. But, with that said, I'm now mentally cheating on him with Ethan. Who can deny a man who makes you want to fight him to the ultimate death one minute than throw him down and make vampire babies with him the next? Surely not I. Great continuation in an outstandingly fun and surprising series.

*Sigh* Ethan… *Sigh* Morgan… *Giggle* Catcher… (But I'll get to all that in a minute)

In "Friday Night Bites", the second installment in Chloe Neill's 'Chicagoland Vampires' series, Merit has a problem. Okay so she has a few, but the one I think everyone who reads this book pays the most attention to is the problem she has with the men. Catcher, you watch because he's funny and his relationship with Mallory makes you swoon and laugh out loud simultaneously. Morgan, you watch because Merit has been tricked into dating him and you want to know if he can win her heart. Ethan, you watch because it's hard not to and because the chemistry between he and Merit is impossible to ignore. By the end of this book, I was surprised by how my opinion of these three men had changed since finishing the first book. I still really like Catcher, but my feelings towards Morgan and Ethan were swaying as much and as often as those air-filled balloon guys on the side of the road showing you exactly where the 'super big sale' is.

Merit is quite tormented in this book. She still wants to be 'pre-vampire' Merit, but she feels duty-bound to her new Master Ethan and to her House. When asked to re-visit her somewhat estranged family and friends, she begrudgingly accepts - to help her House. She agrees to do many things 'to help her House'. She is feeling a little used. On top of feeling a little manipulated, Merit also feels a little broken throughout this book. And when she finally lets someone know how she has been feeling, you really feel the weight lift off, not just her shoulders, but yours as well. Merit is very likable. You really want her to be happy and you want her to excel in everything she undertakes. Basically, you want her to kick butt.

I felt frustrated towards Ethan often in this book. But as I read on, I warmed up to him. I think there may be a heart somewhere in there. With Morgan, I felt drawn to him and sympathized with him. Then umm…not so much. Apparently, be it vampire or human, all men have the ability to become babies when they don't quite get their way. Geez… Unfortunately, (not wanting to give too much away, but be warned, I'm giving a little away…) Mallory and Merit have a little falling out. Okay, it's a little more than a little one. But they will work things out, right? C'mon, they just have too!!! I heart Mallory!

I like how "Friday Night Bites" plays out. At the end of it all, I think things are how they should be…and headed to where I hope they will go. I'll just have to read on to "Twice Bitten", the next book in the series, to see if I am right in my assessment.

As for the teams, Team Morgan is now at the bottom, Team Ethan is creeping up, but Team Catcher is still on top!

Friday Night Bites is the 2nd novel in Chloe Neill's Chicagoland Vampires series & it starts a little after where the events of Some Girls Bite left off. Merit still struggles with her transition to vampirism & new responsibilities living in Cadogen House.

Celina appears to be lurking in the shadows with a new scheme to bring down the House but her approach is a convoluted one that threatens the tenuous relationship that the vampires have with both shape shifters & humans.

The Merit, Morgan & Ethan love triangle continues, Morgan appears to be an ideal love interest for Merit but she all but discounts him for Ethan who is emotionally unavailable & let us not forget that he is also her boss! Merit is a smart girl but the choices that she makes are frustrating as she basically alienates those that care for her for Ethan's sake but is he really worth it?

Merit also finally merges her human with her vampire self which results in her belated experience of the pain associated with the change that she was protected from the first time around, no drugs this time. It will be interesting to see if the whole is now greater than the sum of the parts so to speak & perhaps Merit in 'Twice Bitten' will be that much more powerful.