Marta Acosta: Happy Hour at Casa Dracula

Happy Hour at Casa Dracula is a fun new foray into the vampire genre. Marta Acosta keeps things fresh by introducing a Latina character who is funny, quirky, and a bit of an underdog. Milagro de Los Santos is a young Ivy League graduate from Fancy University or as she refers to it, FU. As a struggling novelist, Milagro is barely getting by with a little help from her friends. One of her jobs is acting as a reading consultant to rich people with an aversion to book clubs. A client invites her to a soiree to celebrate a novel and the guest of honor happens to be her ex-boyfriend. She hasn’t seen Sebastian Beckett Witherspoon since he ran off and left her without a word of explanation.

Her reunion with Sebastian is upsetting but she is quickly distracted by an attractive man named Oswaldo. Milagro ditches the party with Oswaldo and ends up in his hotel room under the guise of discussing her novel. Through an accident involving kissing and falling down, they each get a little of the others blood. After the accident, Milagro is spirited away to Oswaldo’s family compound to see whether she will recover or become a vampire like them. She is introduced to the Krakatoa family headed by Edna, a cranky matriarch with a sharp wit.

This forced vacation could be good for Milagro since she will have time to work on her novel and get to know the yummy Oswald. But it’s not to be, Oswald is off limits and her ex-boyfriend is now part of an organzation called CACA that wants to destroy all vampires. Sebastian is looking for her and he would like nothing better than to put a stake through her well-endowed chest.

Sprinkled with Spanish, comic moments and delicious wit, Happy Hour at Casa Dracula is a winning combination of chica lit and vampires. The gorgeous cover art will pull you in but what’s inside is even better. Be sure to pick this one up for your summer reading. The follow up book in the series will be called Midnight Brunch at Casa Dracula to be published May 2007.

You can click on the Amazon.com link above to order Happy Hour at Casa Dracula. It will be released on July 4th in both the US and UK.

Click here to read an interview with Marta Acosta.

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