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    Undead and Undermined
    Undead and Undermined
    Undead and Undermined
    Audiobook6 hours

    Undead and Undermined

    Written by MaryJanice Davidson

    Narrated by Nancy Wu

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    There’s no guarantee in life. Or for that matter, death …

    Vampire queen Betsy Taylor has awoken in a Chicago morgue, naked as a corpse.

    Her last memory is reconciling with her husband, Eric Sinclair, after a timetraveling field trip to hell (literally) with her sister, Laura. Now, she’s Jane Doe #291, wrapped in plastic with a toe tag. Betsy can’t help but wonder, what in hell happened?

    For starters, she and Laura didn’t time-travel alone. What followed them had a wicked agenda: to kill Betsy in a time when she was young and vulnerable and end her future reign as queen. But it’s not just Betsy’s future that’s taken an unexpected detour. Everyone in her circle, alive or undead, is feeling the chill.

    Betsy can't let the unthinkable happen. It would be a cold day in hell if she did.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 5, 2011
    ISBN9781461803966
    Undead and Undermined
    Author

    MaryJanice Davidson

    MaryJanice Davidson has been credited with starting paranormal chick lit. She is the author of the Undead series and Me, Myself and Why? Her books have been listed on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, and she lists her goals as “Working for world peace, figuring out how to make potstickers, and speaking at writer and reader conferences around the world.” She lives in Minnesota.

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    • 4/5
      #10 in the Queen Betsy series. This one has Betsy and her sister Laura back from their time traveling adventures. This one was a bit hard to follow as I haven't read book 9 yet. But this one for me was a page turner. Betsy and Laura have traveled ahead in time and Betsy is no longer a happy go lucky type person. Now she's back in an alternative time line where things are not what she's used to, the biggest one being no Louboutin shoes. The book starts with Betsy coming back from Hell and ending up in the middle of the street on the miracle mile. With that the book is off and running. Betsy travels back to hell and finds that the devil is actually afraid of her. While there she gets some of her shoes back and brings her friend Antonia back from the dead. Also future Marc follows them back to the present, which not all goes as she expects.
    • 1/5
      Ok someone said the series changed so I had to try this part.

      Yep. it changed.

      General impression? Writer on Crack with heavy dose of psychotropics perhaps for a manic phase of manic depression.

      I finished the book going "What in the h..l was that all about?" I really regret going back and reading this after I decided to toss book number 5. The change in the series was horrible. Davidson found something that worked in book one. She lost it by book 4 and now? I'm figuring she quit her day job and is stuck.
    • 5/5
      Okay, I seriously LOVED this book. I can't even tell you how much. I was sad when it ended. Heck, I was so into it that I didn't even realize it was coming to the end. I can not wait to read the next book to see what comes next. I'm sort of glad I waited a while to read this, rather than diving in the second it came out like I wanted to.
    • 4/5
      Is Betsy in trouble now! The story gets a little hard to follow/repetitive with the time travel.... And it is so sad about Marc. What is she to do with the knowledge about the Book of the Dead? Was Laura just trying to shield her from this? Oh, twists and turns...
    • 3/5
      Better than the one before - Ms. Davidson handles parrel time lines better than she handles time travel but not up to snuff as compared to the earlier Queen Betsy titles. However, this alternate time does allow authors to go back and change events they wish they had not done in previous books. Like bringing back people she had killed off in earlier books. For that I applaud her, but like Betsy misses some of her shoe designers that are not available where she is now, I miss the old Queen Betsy.
    • 1/5
      Congratulations, MaryJanice Davidson, after 10 books you finally convinced me that there's no there there, and I'm not going to be there for any more searching for it. Betsy Taylor, the Vampire Queen, is perpetually 30 years old. Now, in my time line a 30 year old female is a woman with a reasoning mind able to listen to ideas, to formulate plans, to envision others as people. In her time line a 30 year old female is just a 13 year old with the ability to have sex, lots of hot steamy sex but with absolutely no ability to contemplate the idea that others might also have sex. She's a cutesy, cutesy Sex and the City kind of 30 year old, and in spite of Davidson's remarkable imagination, she is incapable of being anything but cutesy. Enough already, you win MaryJanice. I'm going back to the real world. The one with 30 year old adults.
    • 4/5
      Betsy has returned from her time travel adventure and finds herself on a slab in the Cook County Morgue. Let's just say that that is pretty much the best thing that happens to her in the entire book. I am not going to give away anything because this book is so insanely funny and just plain insane that I would hate to spoil anything. MJD says that this is the second in a trilogy within the series so I am guessing everything will be tied up in the next book. I can say that Betsy is in high snark. Jessica is pregnant. Sinclair is as hunky and surly as ever. And Laura, hmmm, yes Laura... I know these books are not for everyone but if find them incredibly entertaining. After a slump around book 4 (for me anyway), I think they just keep getting better.
    • 4/5
      I am not a fashionista or have an obsession for shoes, but I love this series. Queen Betsy is selfish and at times moronic, but I love her for all those things too. She is hilarious and what ever the issue is she's usually going 100 miles a minute. This latest installment is the 10th book in the series. For a while I had thought about not continuing the series because I hadn't enjoyed the last few books as much as the early ones. I'm glad I stuck it out because Undead and Undermined was worth it. As always Betsy is laugh out loud funny and shocking as ever, maybe even more so. Once again Ms. Davidson has turned Betsy's world upside down. She has taken the story to a place I didn't even think it would or could go, but it works and I loved it. I can't wait to read more of this storyline.
    • 3/5
      Second book in a trilogy within the Betsy series that I can only assume will be used to explain a change in Betsy's outlook and attitude in future books. In the last book Betsy travels with Laura through time so she can practice her abilities to jump to different times and places and eventually take over Satan's job; mom wants to retire. Betsy's presence and action in the past causes changes to the current timeline. Their jump of 1000 years to a horrific future caused by Betsy has given Betsy the goal to prevent that future from happening.This book has Betsy discovering and trying to acclimate to the changes in the timeline and apparently only she and Laura can recall the way things were before their little vacation. Since going back and feeding on Laura instead of Nick in the past, he's much friendlier towards vampires, although Laura isn't too happy about being fed on. Jessica is pregnant and about to pop. Mom has a boyfriend. Someone dead in the prior timeline is now alive and a little different. And someone from the future is sent back to the present time. Steps are taken to meet Betsy's goal to alter the future she saw, but events that take place to try to prevent it seem like it just might be putting her on the path she wants to avoid. By the end of this book we see a more assertive Betsy.The book starts out with a seven page recap of the entire series. This was well done. There are also a number of quotes and a definition for Retroactive Continuity from Wikipedia which was really a smart thing to add because there are differences in this new timeline that can't be explained by Betsy's visit to the past; at least for now. Hopefully this will make more sense in the 3rd book.There is actually very little story taking place in this one, much of it dealing with Betsy being stunned and trying to acclimate to how things are now. Betsy's ADD (or ADHD?) is more evident than ever with a huge amount of ink devoted to her sarcastic thoughts and comments which temporarily drag her and us away from a topic or conversation, all to add humor to the story. I'm not sure if there is more of this in these last two books or if it's just becoming old. It is why I loved the first couple of books in the series. I still do enjoy it and have to marvel at some of the things the author came up with, but there's just too much of it.This trilogy could have easily been one decent size book if half of the sarcastic comments and observations were removed. The author does thank the readers who picked up this book after believing she lost her mind with the last one. It helps, although I'm upset to have paid a hardcover price for the book and have doubts that I will if I read the next one.