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Dancers in the Dark

By Charlaine Harris
Dancers in the Dark by Charlaine Harris digital book - Fable

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Passion and terror drive a young dancer into a vampire’s tempting arms in this classic paranormal romance by the author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Rue LeMay is desperate for cash when she takes a job as a dancer at Blue Moon Entertainment. Her tough childhood has prepared her to handle just about anything, including the enigmatic vampires she must dance with at Blue Moon. But she isn’t prepared for the sparks that fly when she meets her regular dance partner, the inscrutable Sean McClendon, a three-hundred-year-old redheaded vampire from Dublin. And when Rue finds herself hunted by a terrifying stalker, Sean may be the only one she can trust . . .

Originally published inthe anthology Night’s Edge in 2004.

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3.5
“I only borrowed Dead of Night to read Dancers in the Dark. Despite the fact that I’ve been reading the Sookie Stackhouse books for 5 years or so now (I was definitely late to the party!) I’d never managed to find this one. I did this year though. We first meet Sean and Layla in the one with the vampire summit in Rhoades, and Sookie comments (mentally) on how rare it is for a vamp couple to be together, as they usually don’t last very long. There, Sean and Layla have been together for roughly 3 years I think, and in this one - so over 3 years before - vamps “came out” roughly 5 years before. That would put vamps as outed for 8 years around the time of the summit, but the entire Sookie series doesn’t even last 2-3 years, and I think that’s pushing it. So there’s one inconsistency. Another is Sean is telling Layla of his life, 270+ years previous in poor Ireland, when he was a valet for a vampire (whose last name was Lovell, and my genealogy does go back to Ireland on one branch, so I’m assuming this is my great x10 or however many grandpa, and I will take no questions on the matter). And how he used to shave dude’s beard. Except we know from Bill Compton that however they are when made vampire, is how they stay. Their hair doesn’t grow, at all. It’s giving “Diana Gabaldon” vibes in the sense that I believe an author should remember their own lore, but perhaps I’ve read Charlaine Harris’s stories more than she has, lol. I don’t imagine many authors sit around rereading their works. Anyway. Rue (Layla) is on the run and hiding from a past that would see her killed. She’s from a small ass town owned by one rich ass family, and when the son of said family brutalizes her, she gets no justice. So she bails and joins a vamp/human dance company because dancing is something she’s good at and enjoys. This is where she meets Sean. I think I too would swoon over an Irish vampire, so I’m not mad at her all. As they get closer, she won’t tell him what she’s so afraid of, so Sean noses through her personal shit and heads to her home town to find out what the hell happened. In the meantime though, her abuser has been released from the mental hospital he was sent to and is out for blood. I Stan Sean and Layla. I’m really glad Charlaine Harris gave us a little bit about the two, because I think we only see them 2 times in the main books, and I’ve always felt pulled in by them.”

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