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Excerpt from:
The Brat, by Lynsay Sands

Why you should buy a copy of your very own:
Sands' books are sweet, funny, and pleasantly free of buttheaded male main characters. I can't tell you how rare that is.

In this scene...
Our hero, Balan is doing his best to make idle chit-chat with our heroine, Murie. Unfortunately, he is really, really bad at idle chit-chat.


"Finally Murie said, 'Emilie says you and Reginald are friends?'

'Aye.'

She waited for him to expound on that, but he didn't. Frowning, she asked, 'Have you known him long?'

'Aye.'

Again she waited for him to expound, and again he didn't. Murie bit her lip. He wasn't being very helpful. 'Emilie says you have gone to battle for the king?'

'Aye.'

'In France?' she prodded.

'Aye.'

'Crecy? Calais?' she asked through gritted teeth.

'Aye.'

Murie finally turned to him with irritation. 'Do you actually speak, my lord? If so, I would consider it rather kind of you to help out with this conversation, rather than leaving me to carry it on my own.'

'Aye. I speak,' he answered. Then he fell silent."

© Lynsay Sands, 2007

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While going through the slim pickings in a small English-language bookstore in Italy, I unenthusiastically selected Single White Vampire, a cheesy-looking book by a writer I'd never heard of before, Lynsay Sands. I'm not a big fan of vampire romance novels, but I wasn't seeing anything else and it was only two euros, so I shrugged my shoulders, took it up to the counter...

...and was happily surprised. By the end of the trip, we'd all read Single White Vampire. I'm not saying that the book was great--it wasn't--but it was cute and funny and reasonably well-written, and that's nothing to sneeze at. I'm not going to rush out there and buy Ms. Sands' entire back catalog, but I'll definitely add her to my "When there's a gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket and I have nothing else I want to buy" list. She's a solid pick for any romance fans out there looking for some enjoyably silly beach reading.


Above left: The Brat, Ms. Sands' latest novel. Not exactly the world's most elegant-looking book, but an undeniably eye-catching combination of title and cover art.

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