Queen of the Undead Vampire Betsy ("Don't call me Liz!") Taylor is back in Mary Janice Davidson's latest Undead And Undermined (#94). Ms. Davidson introduces this as the middle book of a trilogy, and she does give you a fighting chance to catch up at the beginning with "The Story So Far" but frankly I wouldn't recommend jumping into this series with this book if you haven't been reading along. You'll miss all the fun! After all, Betsy is the first to admit that she's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but her observations are absolutely hilarious.
As Undead And Undermined opens, Betsy wakes up on an autopsy slab in the Cook County Morgue just as the pathologist is about to begin his work on her (naked!) corpse. How did she wind up here? The last thing she remembered, she and her half-sister Laura (daughter of Satan) had left Betsy's mansion in Minneapolis bound for hell in effort to set things straight.... But wait! Betsy can hear her husband Eric Sinclair, King of The Vampires, frantically calling to her telepathically. After he comes with an entourage to pick her up and returns her home to Minneapolis Betsy discovers she has returned to an alternate timeline; how and when did Jessica get pregnant?! (Well, Betsy knows how, but WHEN?). Why is Jessica's boyfriend in the house at all when he made Jessica choose between Betsy and him in the other timeline? When did Betsy's mother start dating again? And where are all her really, really good shoes???!!!
Betsy makes (she hopes!) some progress towards correcting the horrible future she saw when she and Laura time tripped through the past and the future in the previous book. But has she done enough to prevent that bleak future from happening, or has Satan conspired to lull her into thinking the world will be okay? We'll have to wait and see what happens in the next installment.
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