ReVamped (Void City, Book 2)

by J.F. Lewis

Book Overview

REVIVED. REFRESHED. AND READY FOR REVENGE. Eric survived a vicious showdown with his double-crossing former best friend and some angry lycanthropes--barely: he's lost his strip club, his treasured red... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439102287
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.1" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Sequel

A really good sequel to Staked. Funny and twisted, with lots of action and interesting paranormal ideas. I look forward to the third.

Revamped is more amped

J.F. Lewis is a newly published author, I really enjoyed and was completely lost in the first book "Staked" so naturally I purchased "Revamped" and was not dissappointed at all. It was very hard to put the book down in order to do anything else. I loved every page and may reread it again soon. J.F. Lewis' next book; as soon as preorder is available will be in my cart without a question.

Great follow up!!

What's the story? It's about Eric, a very powerful vampire who just wants to be left alone but is constantly getting dragged into one situation after another. He's brutally honest, coarse,impulsive,and doesn't give a crap about anyone; but he's loyal and protective of his friends and family and will kick the [...] of anyone stupid enough to mess with him and his small circle. Why is ReVamped interesting? Like Stake, the first Void City novel, it's a new point of view in a growing genre (urban fanstasy). Some things are familiar: vampire - thrall - sex. But Void City is an interesting place and there are so many great characters courtesy of J. F. Lewis. It's fast-paced, hilarious, and has a main character that both male and female readers can relate to. I was hooked with Staked, extremely satisfied with ReVamped, and excited about what's going to happen in the third. I hope this isn't going to be a trilogy, but rather a series that gets better each year. I'd recommend this to fans of Jim Butcher and Rob Thurman. The hero is rough around the edges but solid as a rock!

Void City, take two......

I enjoyed this book very much. The story picks up exactly were Staked left off. Eric, Marilyn and his strip club have been blown up by Roger. They both spend a bit of time wandering the Demon Heart reminiscing, until Marilyn's time approaches for her to move on. Unfortunately, her afterlife may not be as serine and quiet as one would hope. The background information is revealed on how Roger tortured Marilyn for more than 40 years. I totally loved the parts with Fang The Stang aka Eric's sidekick Zombie Mustang (no exaggeration, the car actually eats people). When Eric finally gets his body reformed, he crosses paths with a demon named J'iliol'lth. This is where the story heats up and moves quickly. He's force to strike a deal with the demon in order to save a loved one and also to be able to achieve true immortality. We also find out what Rachel is, what she's been up to and who she works for; when Tabitha and Rachel cross paths again it is not pretty! Void City may be short one strip club but not to fret it's gaining a vampire bowling alley! There was quite a bit of twisted-humor, which I enjoyed very much. I can't wait for the next installment which should follow Eric in old gay-pari, where he is on the quest to find his sire. I recommend this book to Urban Fantasy readers and look forward to the next book in the series. I also recommend: The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6) Red-Headed Stepchild (Sabina Kane) At Grave's End (Night Huntress, Book 3) Nightwalker (Dark Days, Book 1) Happy Hour of the Damned

entertaining bloody vampire thriller

In Void City, vampire Eric Courtney struggles with his new existence. A few days ago his business partner at the Demon Heart Strip Club Roger blew up the place with Eric in it (see STAKED). Now Eric is a ghost, which makes taking a bite of blood a bit difficult. His former fiancée Marilyn begins to fill in the details of his last living undead days in Void City, but before she can explain how he was betrayed, J'iliol'lth the demon takes her soul. Eric cuts a deal with J'iliol'lth. In exchange for him finding the Stone of Aeternemthe that raises the dead, the demon will grant him immortality and give him Marilyn's soul. All that seems simple enough, but he finds the hardest thing to accept is his Mustang has become a vampire and worse he must enter Vampire High Society with his almost girlfriend Tabitha if he is to complete his end of the Faustian deal. Much more in your face (make that neck) humor than the biting jocularity of Eric's first tale, REVAMPED is an entertaining bloody vampire thriller with the spin of the hero becoming a ghostly blood sucker. The story line is fast-paced as Eric is the Murphy of the supernatural world in J.F. Lewis' fine urban fantasy in which he learns that even being an undead dead does not prove any safer. Harriet Klausner