In the fourth book of the Castle of Dark Dreams series, Cinnamon (Cinn) Airmid is the botanist who created Sweetie Pie and Jessica, plants who thrive off sexual energy. Hired to create more plants for the Live the Fantasy theme park, everything is going good for her until she meets the insane, enraged vampire chained in the dungeon.
Dacian is a vampire and has spent centuries running from Stephan, his sadistic maker. With both Cinn and his brother Taurin to protect, Dacian will do anything to free himself from Stephan’s clutches once and for all.
This novel seems to directly follow the novella, Hot Summer Bites, and should be read together. Since I haven’t read the novella, I was often confused when reading this book. The theme park and some of the characters from the previous full-length books have gone through some big changes, and there were few explanations as to why.
I couldn’t connect with either the H/h. While I enjoyed the romance and them falling in love, they seemed more interested in having sex, eating, and sleeping while their friends fought the bad guy. Their lack of action just didn’t seem right to me.
3 Stars

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How I love Sparkle Stardust and Ganymede's shenanigans. Also gotta love a woman who names her plants and gives them lots of love. Of course, there's the smokin' hot vampire...chained in the dungeon? ( )

It took me a while to read this book but it was pretty enticing nonetheless. It starts off meeting Cinn who is trying to get a job at this castle of fantasy. Cinn has an affinity for plants. So she has been experimenting with her plants and they each have their own little powers. Such as feeding off of sexual energy, and few others that seem a little more dangerous.

She finally met her first vampire and found herself hopelessly in love with him. Although she was a skeptic at the beginning if not scared of him. As he was dragged into the castle and held in heavy chains. But the story moves along at a slightly slow pace, because first Armid, the goddess is after Cinn because of her experiments on her plants and then with her vampire lover, his sire is after him and causes him to black out sometimes, which gets into a lot of trouble.

So there is a lot going on in this book. But it really made for a nice change of pace from what I have been reading. Falling for a vampire is never easy when you have a lot of drama going on! But aside from that, the characters were pretty cool. There were various kinds of demons, and cosmic troublemakers and vampires and witchs, even a wizard!

The story moves slow but it did move. And once all of the action started it made it turn out to be a really cool book with a happy ending! Gotta love those happy endings. ( )

Okay, I hate to admit it, but this wasn't a bad book. I am not sure what series it is linked to by the author, as it seems to have characters from all her series in it. A very fluffy read, great for a flight, or time on a train. ( )

Read the review on my blog:http://bookreviewsbyjess.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-wicked-vampire-castle-of-dark-dreams.htmlPlot: 3Setting: 4Writing: 5Originality: 5Characters: 4Passion: 5Overall: 26/30 = 86% - BCover/Title Bonus: 2Dorchester Pub sent this to me a few weeks ago to be reviewed.Plot:Cinn is the newly hired attraction at The Castle of Dark Dreams. She has a talent with plants. She doesn’t know what’s she’s gotten herself into, wants to leave but is forced to stay for at least two weeks per her boss: Sparkle Stardust. She’s thrown into the castle managers who turn out to be wizards, demons, cosmic troublemakers, and vampires. Oh, there are also talking cats and plants! :) And because of the plants there’s an angry Goddess after Cinn!Setting:The Castle of Dark Dreams is like a theme parks for adults wishing to live “fantasies” that just so happen to be real supernatural beings living amongst each other. A lot of the story takes place in Cinn’s greenhouse, the dungeon, and various rooms of the Castle. There’s a shopping trip to a well known super store chain that is rather adventurous. One character has a talent to make dream fantasies which are pretty cool.Writing:This was my first book by Nina Bangs. She did very well at keeping my attention. The detail used in the plants and the castle were very well done. The tone was light yet realistic.Originality:The setting made this book incredibly original. The plants were out of this world! I had not read a book with the main character being a botanist or rather a gifted botanist who creatures plants that mature into having feelings, talking telepathically, and even moving!Characters:This was the first book I’ve read that a few of the characters were plants! Vince was a not so normal periwinkle. I actually looked at him as a character and not just a plant. How cool is that?Cinn was a pretty normal girl, besides having the wicked green thumb.Sparkle was such an overbearing nonsense character. I felt like smacking her a few times.Dacian is a vampire that suffers from bouts of rage cast onto him by his maker Stephan, who is trying to create an army of vampires loyal to him. Dacian refuses to join forces, which brings all hell down on the occupants of The Castle of Dark Dreams.Oh, and how exactly do you say his name: Dacian? I was angry by how I could not pronounce his name in my head! I ended up just calling him D. I did NOT like his name!!!Ganymede is a cat by choice and Sparkle’s other half. He consumes enormous amounts of junk food and has a ton of the troublemaker power. And breaks out into a gorgeous, ass kicking human form at the end of the book.There are a few other characters that have minor roles and are very cool.Passion:Cinn and Dacian are the major characters of the book. They end up bonding because Dacian has the role of protecting Cinn from the plant Goddess. Their relationship does turn sexual and very romantic actually. Dacian is a true gentleman in his own way.Overall:Overall I was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining this book was. I still can’t believe how much fun it was to have plants, cats, vampires, Goddesses, and the troublemakers all thrown together as a big happy family. It was weird yet fascinating at the same time.Cover/Title:The title seems to follow the rest of the series with the word wicked being included. The cover image however is being shared with another book that was recently released: The Eternal Kiss.Eternal KissI like the cover of My Wicked Vampire oh so much better than The Eternal Kiss but it wouldn’t be my first pick for this book. Something with a castle and maybe PLANTS on it would have been entirely more appropriate than a picture of a lady with multiple ear piercings. It shows nothing of what to expect in this book what so ever. ( )