I bought and downloaded this book immediately upon finishing
Eternal, which is set in the same world. The story is written
around a menu for a new restaurant. Quincie Morris inherited a
restaurant when both her parents passed away; her Uncle is running
it in trust for her until her 21st birthday. The story begins when
the restaurant is closed for renovations - it is being re-imaged as
Sanguini's: A Very Rare Restaurant, a theme restaurant with a
vampire chef and vampire Goth theme decor. And the chef is to be
the unlife of the party. But a few weeks before the grand
reopening, the chef, a close family friend, is murdered and it
looks like a werewolf attack.
Soon they find a person who appears to be the perfect fill-in,
Henry Johnson, a chef whose food is amazing but seems to be
struggling with the vampire appearance. But things are not always
what they appear. A wedge is driven between Quincie and her best
friend, a half-werewolf named Kiernan. Soon she is isolated, not
attending school and spending all her time with her uncle and the
new chef preparing for the grand reopening.
This story was amazing, I did not want to stop reading it, and
often kept reading when I should have put the book down. I read it
in less than 48 hours. The story was great, with amazing twists in
the plot. The surprises kept coming. The story is told in sections
following the menu for the new restaurant, from antipasto, primo,
secondo, dolce and finally conforno. I loved the story and how it
was written and cannot wait for the third book in this world to
come out in 2011.