A Review of Honeymoon of the Dead by Tate Hallaway

5 Fangs for Honeymoon of the Dead

It seems all good things must come to end, this is another wonderful series that ended at book five.

If it doesn't end at 3 (making it a trilogy) the magic number seems to be 5. If it can go past 5 then it has the chance to make the long haul (which means it could go on forever).

Honeymoon of the Dead is the 5th and final book of Tate Hallaway's Garnet Lacey series.

After dealing with a zombie ex-wife and a moody eternal teenager at her wedding, witch Garnet just wants to have a nice, normal honeymoon with her vampire husband Sebastian.

Too bad normal suddenly seems to mean that Garnet sees gods and goddesses everywhere she goes and has run ins with the police at every turn. Wow talk about a honeymoon from hell!

Garnet has to deal with the police, FBI, Homeland security, the Austrian consulate, a kidnapping, crazy cultish vampire hunters, two quarrelling goddesses, supernatural crazies that seem to have in for Garnet, her old coven members that have not forgiven her past indiscretions, and an immortal husband she still has so much to learn about...

This is not exactly what a new bride hopes her honeymoon will be like.

I love this series and I am totally bummed this is the last book. A witch with great power Garnet just wants to do her own thing- but nothing, nothing ever seems to go right for her especially when after putting out a call for help she gets stuck with the mother of all demons inside her, Lilith. Why couldn't she get a nice Goddess full of light. Nope she gets bloodthirsty Lilith- which Garnet has come to think of as her own personal curse. Until she also ended up with the feminist, man hating Goddess Athena inside her.

Amid everything else she has to deal with on this honeymoon gone terribly wrong Garnet has to decide which Goddess to keep and which one to ask nicely to leave because the two of them duking it out inside her is making Garnet physically ill.

This book had parts that were so funny I laughed out loud (love that in a book) along with a few ultra sexy parts and the mandatory soul searching that Garnet has to do so she can come to terms with who and what she is.

This was a fabulous book and a great way to end an awesome series.

I will miss Sebastian the alchemist/college professor/car mechanic vampire (love that, really do). He is the embodiment of everything I imagine a vampire would be- completely multifaceted, ageless, adaptable, willing to experiment and change often without ever loosing who he is, sure of himself but not so sure and haughty that he forgets how to be silly. When I think of all the vampires in all the books I have read, Sebastian has to be one of the most well rounded and well adapted individuals. He is loving and kind, sexy and dangerous, both teddy bear and grizzling bear, and totally- totally freaking hawt! His main drawbacks have to be the zombie witch ex-wife and the eternal moody teenager (of course the son, Matyas, has his good moments).

For all of you Tate Hallaway fans do not fear, she also has a new series coming out- also YA

(I am sensing a trend here- thanks to Twilight-everyone's going YA- it's where the hopes of big money and massive book franchises currently dwell)

Anyway the new book is Almost to Die For: A Vampire Princess of St Paul Novel which will be out in August. Looks like it is going to be another YA series featuring vampires.