Review: "Eternally I Do takes an interesting spin on the vampire mythology. "
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2011
Dr. Bonita Charice Hudson, Bonnie, to her friends, has been planning for the New Year's Eve Bash for months.  Dieting to get into the perfect dress, perfect hair and makeup, tonight will be the night she goes all the way with her current flame.  Her plans get interrupted by her best friend, Ramon, when he insists she come down to the morgue for an emergency.  What kind of emergency could there be for a forensic anthropologist that can't wait for tomorrow she wonders?  Against her better judgment she goes and what she discovers will change her life forever!Hideaki Kinoshita, a centuries old vampire, an ancient one, and lord of his own territory, was hunting rogue vampires in Miami when he struck some bad luck and ended up in the morgue.  Near death he awakens to find a beautiful black woman standing over him.  When Bonnie saves Hide's life he is eternally in her debt and he wants to take her as his mate, but there are trials for her to go through before that is possible.A war is going on between vampire clans.  Hideaki and Bonnie become targets for the rogue vampires.  Bonnie has lots of adjustments to make in this new world she has fallen into and they must learn to lean on each other if they are to survive the storm coming for them.  With so many things standing against Hide and Bonnie will they be able to survive?  More importantly will they survive together?Eternally I Do takes an interesting spin on the vampire mythology.  I love that the lead characters are a Japanese vampire and a curvy African American woman.  Bonnie is very outspoken and I thought it was hilarious how often what she said shocked Hide.  One of my favorite lines was when Bonnie told Hide, "If you want to experience bliss, you better start courting this."  I felt that Eternally I Do was a bit long.  There were parts I felt could have been trimmed.  At times, it felt like the dialog between Hide and Bonnie was going on forever.  There were a ton of editing errors and I found it distracting more than once.  Bonnie and Hide's amazing chemistry and stellar banter make up for some of the errors, when they finally hit the sheets they scorch the pages.  Eternally I Do features an excellent premise but I felt it didn't hold the momentum it started with throughout the book.MirandaFor Joyfully Reviewed