Tantalize

The book is about a 17-year-old girl/woman named Quincie Morris. Her parents are dead, and her uncle owns a restaurant. She goes to school in the mornings, and in the afternoons she works at the restaurant.

The main chef of the restaurant is murdered, and it appears to have been done by a were-being (this being a world where vampires and were-beings are real). Not everyone likes that fact, and there have been lynchings of were-people and some cross-burnings.

Her uncle decides to alter the restaurant to a vampire-themed one.

Things go very badly for Quincie, though, as her boyfriend is a werewolf who is going to have to leave and join an established pack and someone is out to use the restaurant for their own evil purposes. Quincie will pay a major price for that.

Spoiler below.

I thought that this was an okay book, but that's about it. I am usually skeptical of any book that has the main character being changed into a vampire and basically placidly accepting the fact. Quincie ends up as a vampire and seems to accept the situation. To me, if that is done to a main character, I would expect the main character to become intensely angry and to try to seek revenge against those who caused that change.

I think the story would have been more effective if Quincie had sought a way to kill Bradley, then dropped the vampire-themed restaurant idea totally. She should also have spent some time trying to reverse the effects of what had been done to her; since she was a freshly-made vampire, maybe such reversal would have been possible. If not reversal, then revenge.

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