Review: It takes true skill to pull a real laugh out of a lone reader. Robyn Peterman accomplishes this!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
This is the first book I have read of Robyn Peterman’s and I just want to say…HOLY SHEEP! GIVE ME MORE!!!!Astrid is a Prada loving girl who knows she needs to quit smoking, especially since she’s about to lose a bet with her Best Friend Gemma.  When she goes to a voodoo “hypnotist” only to wake up the next day “dead” she thinks her Prada wearing days are over.  Boy was she wrong.Between an Oprah Winfrey looking Guardian Angel, an Arnold Schwarzenegger looking Fairy, Demons and magical powers(oh my!), she thinks her life can’t get anymore stranger. Giiiirl Please! This is a Robyn Peterman book!It didn’t take me more than this one book to figure out Robyn Peterman is a shoulda, coulda been comedian and an amazing writer!! I’m so happy she is dishing out laughter in books though. True comedy is a lost art form.  It ESPECIALLY takes skill to pull a real laugh out of a lone reader versus a person sitting in the midst of a large audience filled with those quick on the giggles. Robyn Peterman accomplishes this!!I loved the Guardian Angel, Pam.  She’s hilarious, blunt and yet kind.  I smiled with each new name she came up with to call Astrid.  Her “Fairy Fighting Friend” is named The Kevin.  No…not Kevin….THE Kevin. He thinks he’s a sex God and has absolutely no fashion sense.When Astrid comes face to face with a Vampyre named Ethan, she has an immediate attraction to him.  When he starts projecting sexual images of what he’d like to do to her, she knows he’s someone she’d love to have on her to do list.  However he’s meeting two other vamps secretly and there are rogues out there killing innocents. Is he one of them or does he hold secrets she can’t even imagine?Final Thoughts:  I seriously flippin’ LOVED this book/series/author!!! I’m thinking I might have to invent a new rating on my website for books like this and a few others that I’ve thought to myself are so much more than 5 Stars!Robyn Peterman is totally someone I’d love to be best friends with.  She’s hilarious, an amazing writer, cusses like a sailor and makes no apologies for it. Through her writing you get a distinct lesson on who she is as an author and as a person.  She’s definitely someone who I look forward to seeing MUCH more from and learning many more ways to say Astrid, with profanity involved.“Fashionably Dead” is book 1 in The Hot Damned Series. As soon as I finished it, I went looking for more.  Unfortunately she hasn’t came out with it yet.  But SOON!  In the meantime she has other books out there and I can’t imagine them not living up to the standard this book has set.~Robin (bookreadsandreviews.com)