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Undead and Undermined: A Queen Betsy Novel Mass Market Paperback – April 24, 2012

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There’s no guarantee in life.
Or for that matter, death…

Vampire queen Betsy Taylor has awoken in a Chicago morgue, naked as a corpse. Her last memory is reconciling with her husband, Eric Sinclair, after a time-traveling field trip to hell (literally) with her sister, Laura. Now, she’s Jane Doe #291, wrapped in plastic with a toe tag. Betsy can’t help but wonder, what in hell happened?

For starters, she and Laura didn’t time-travel alone. What followed them had a wicked agenda: to kill Betsy in a time when she was young and vulnerable and end her future reign as queen. But it’s not just Betsy’s future that’s taken an unexpected detour. Everyone in her circle, alive or undead, is feeling the chill. Betsy can’t let the unthinkable happen. It would be a cold day in hell if she did.

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 "Delightful, wicked fun!"

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MaryJanice Davidson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Undead novels featuring Betsy Taylor; Derik's Bane, and the young adult novels featuring Jennifer Scales, written with her husband, Anthony Alongi, among other titles.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0515150916
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; Reprint edition (April 24, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780515150919
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0515150919
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 0.75 x 6.75 inches
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MaryJanice is a NYT and USA TODAY best-selling author published across multiple genres, including the UNDEAD series and the FOSTERWERE trilogy. Her books have been published in over a dozen languages and have been on best-seller lists all over the world. She has published books, novellas, articles, short stories, recipes, reviews, and rants, and writes a bi-weekly column for USA Today.

A former model and medical test subject, she lives in St. Paul, MN, with her husband. You can reach her at mjd@maryjanicedavidson.org, find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/maryjanicedavidson, follow her on Twitter and Instagram (https://twitter.com/MaryJaniceD; @ maryjanicedavidson), and check out her website at maryjanicedavidson.org.

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J. Snider
5.0 out of 5 stars Did I read a different book?
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2011
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Before I even read the book I was looking at the reviews for it and having a panic attack! So maybe when I read it my expectations were super low??? I'm not sure, but I don't really understand what everyone's gripe was. I didn't have trouble following the timeline thing. Betsy wasn't any dimmer than usual. The humor was typical and campy with great Betsy-isms. Sinclair is in MOST of the book (??? to the person who said he only made cameo appearances...) And as far as not answering any of the questions left from the last book... well no, there weren't any real answers but you felt Betsy getting closer to the truth, so I wasn't bothered by it so much.
There was one subject in the book that went a place I did not expect, but as far as I'm concerned this showed me a depth to MJD that I honestly didn't think she would have the writing chops to take on (no offense M, always loved you, just didn't know you had it in you). It is pretty gut wrenching and I can see why people would be disturbed... but, MJD has also given us plenty of clues to give us comfort that everything is going to work out just fine in the end.
For that moment of real humanity and connecting with the characters... that ALONE I would give this book 5 stars for. But I am happy to say it isn't the only reason I did.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very entertaining read
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2013
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Though the plot becomes a bit confusing with the timeline changes it still is a very funny, entertaining book to read. I missed book before this so I imagine that is why the plot is convoluted to me. I intend to read the book before this. I like the characters and the main character is hilarious. I would suggest this book to any science fiction fan.
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5.0 out of 5 stars UGH!
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2023
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I’m still upset about the vampire book from book 9! 😭😭😭 Now, Betsy & Laura gets back from the time traveling, Nick is Dick, Jess is pregnant…AND the Marc thing followed them back to Betsy’s present! Garrett’s alive? Toni comes back to life? Marc dead? WTH is going on?
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3.0 out of 5 stars Better, but not quite back to her usual standards
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2011
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Despite my review of the last book, I just couldnt help reading this one too. I just feel like I have read all the others and would hate to give up now before Betsy gets her HEA. I bought the kindle edition and the PROLOGUE doesnt even start until 6%! This book wasnt horrible like the last one but it wasnt great either. Its the 2nd book in the trilogy and I am beginning to see where MJD is going with this series. Betsy is trying to prevent herself from growing evil and starts to realize that some of the things she does could be the start of her evil self. (such as asking for shoes instead of a friend's life or calling her best pregnant friend fat. not a good friend trait!)

The romance between Sinclair and Betsy is still there but the story does not focus on hot scenes like in the past. Betsy comes back from the past/future timetravel trip and things are not as she left them. Which is not wonder since she changed the past. Garrett is alive, her mom is dating, Sinclair mewled, Jessica is pregnant, and she has clogs in her closet. Someone from the future comes to the present, dead people come back from hell, and a close friend dies.

The story is hard to follow sometimes and seems to skip important information. For example, Betsy gets into a fight and you have no idea why she is fighting or who she is fighting with because 5 seconds ago she was having smoothies. I guess MJD was trying to build suspense, she failed! It was just confusing.

MJD's humor fall flat alot in this book and just seems to get off subject. There is a fair amount of padding to the story so the new advancing storyline is not that long (especially for 12.99!) I feel like MJD is abusing her fans and just trying to make as much money as she can while doing as little as possible.

I will probably read the final book in this trilogy just because I already come this far and hope that MJD will fix her mistakes. All in all, it took me less than 3 hours to read this book and an hour to forget it. This new trilogy is improving and the next book (Undead and Unstable) will be out in 12 months. That is just too long to wait!

*Special note to MJD: you have sold tons of books, you can afford to get an editor! And if you already have one, fire him and get one that has at least passed 6th grade English!
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5.0 out of 5 stars (Mostly) Sci-fi Take on MJD classic.
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2011
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Perhaps it is my interests in sci-fi/fantasy where my usual reading is done that makes this such an enjoyable read for me, but I really appreciate the work done here. There is movement through (by my count) four diverging time-lines or streams, or whatever you wish to call them, and tracking the discrepancies which indicate them is part of my fun.

The subject is fairly grim, in a light-hearted fashion, from the PoV of a self-absorbed blonde with a shoe fetish, which offers the comedic aspect (and some intense frustration ;) ).

It is an intermediary book, so there is development here. but no final resolution (awww :( ). I can understand (and share a little) the frustrations of those who want Betsy to Grow Up!, but hey, her folly gives me a sense of superiority.

I await the conclusion (and further adventures) eagerly.
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LynnetteLantosh
5.0 out of 5 stars Anyone for hell
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2021
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Besides the comedy and the snarky remarks that will keep you laughing through the whole book there's also a storyline that continues to grow and keep you Interested all through the book
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Caroline L.
4.0 out of 5 stars Standard Betsy
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2011
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The reviewers who think that this book is absolute rubbish need to actually read the book instead of being offended that the last one ended in Ancient Betsy writing the Book of the Dead on Sinclair's flayed skin. Undead and Undermined is classic Betsy.

One of the other reviewers said that Sinclair and Tina were peripheral in this book. This is absolutely false. They are in this book for a normal period of time and Sinclair and Betsy engage in all of the normal shenanigans (as do Garrett and Antonia). The devil strangely decides to send Antonia back to life and clearly tells Betsy that the Book of the Dead is made of Sinclair. Marc decides to change the course of the future by committing suicide, but Ancient Marc doesn't poof when he does that. There are strange inconsistencies, although the devil seems to consistently laud Laura when Laura does something nice. It's pretty crazy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book! Quick delivery
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2017
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Leslie Dale Bonnar
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Mel
5.0 out of 5 stars A trilogy in the series
Reviewed in Germany on April 12, 2013
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Well, it's part 2 of the turning point, an interesting one, indeed, but not half as exciting as the previous book actually, especially when the previouos end may suggest some weird goings-on in about 1000 years down the line. Best, read for yourself to fine out! Jessica, Garret and Nick have undergone the most profound changes here as well as a stack of shoes disappearing from her closet-that's indeed something, just imagine her reaction; hilarious!
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Bücherwurm
4.0 out of 5 stars undead and undermined - wieder ein Aufschwung nach dem letzten Absacker
Reviewed in Germany on July 24, 2011
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In diesem Buch geht es darum, dass Betsy in einer anderen Zeitlinie gelandet ist und nicht nur herausfindet, dass es ihre Lieblingsschuhe (Christian Laboutin wurde hier nicht geboren?) nicht gibt und sie Clogs (!!) gesammelt hat, ihre beste Freundin Jessica schwanger ist (von Nick - der in dieser Zeitlinie Dick heißt) und D/Nick sie (also Betsy) nicht hasst, sonder auch, dass der verrückte und gefährliche Mark aus der Zukunft mitgekommen ist.
Das "Book of the Dead" ist verschwunden (Laura hat es genommen und will es nicht zurückgeben um Betsy zu schützen). Und auch der Teufel ist überraschend. Scheint sich hier zwar nicht gerade vor Betsy zu fürchten, aber zumindest Respekt zu haben. Das ist ein Punkt worüber man grübeln wird. Schließlich hängt das ja unmittelbar damit zusammen, wie Betsy später mal wird.
Und der Teufel plaudert auch aus, dass es sich bei dem "BUCH" ja nicht nur um Sinclair handelt - sonder ER das Buch ist.
Betsy glaubt es (zumindest vorerst?) nicht. Es wird nur angedeutet, dass sie über ALLES nachdenkt. Somit wieder etwas offen zum grübeln.
Die Handlung ist kurzweilig und lustig (Garrett lebt in dieser Zeitlinie und ist sogar ein aktiver Part teilweise).
Jedenfalls habe ich den Kauf dieses Buches nicht bereut nachdem ich ja vom vorangegeangen - besonders vom Schluss - extrem entäuscht war.
Bin aber gespannt was nun im nächsten Band "Undead and unstable" passieren wird.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Queen Betsy volume ten: a "marmite" storyline continues!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2011
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This tenth instalment in the comedy series which combines chick lit romantic comedy and vampire thriller begins, for the second time, with the heroine waking in a morgue. After time-travelling in the previous book, "Undead and unfinished" she has returned home to find herself in a parallel timeline. This continues a very "marmite" sequel storyline which some of those readers who liked the first six books will appreciate and others will hate.

On the plus side, the wacky sense of humour and new twists in the incongruous way the story mixes up "Sex in the City" with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" still had me laughing more than once. On the minus side it's still very strange and the plot is rather disjointed.

Without wishing to "spoil" the story, let's just say that in the previous book Betsy and Laura went to the future - or at least a possible future - and met versions of their possible future selves. It was immediately obvious that both this future and the people they might become are pretty horrible, and the shock ending in the epilogue showed just how horrible.

In this book Betsy returns home to find herself in a slightly altered timeline - one which seems at first like a considerable improvement, because one friend who was dead in the timeline she came from is still alive, and other friends who hated one another in the initial timeline get on much better.

Unfortunately it is not clear which timeline leads to the horrible future in which Betsy becomes a cruel tyrant. Our heroine is willing to take extreme measures to stop that future coming true, but is she in danger of paradoxically creating it through her efforts? We'll probably find out several books down the line ...

Elizabeth Sinclair, nee Taylor, (who prefers to be called Betsy) is a fashionista and former model, who to her own astonishment has become Queen of the Vampires. She has some unusually difficult family and relationship problems

* A sister who is the antichrist, and is rebelling against her parent the devil by trying to be good (but has some lethal ideas about how to do so)

* A husband who is King of the vampires

* A baby half-brother, whose guardian she has been since her father and stepmother died, who may have some unusual characteristics of his own, and

* said stepmother occasionally comes back as a ghost to haunt Betsy, when she's not being the head receptionist to Satan in hell.

The plotlines of the first six books were more or less resolved in number six, "Undead and Uneasy." The seventh, "Undead and Unworthy," kicked off what Mary Janice Davidson calls a new "story arc." This book, "Undead and Undermined" is the fourth part of that new story.

Here is a list of the Queen Betsy stories to date (December 2013). The original six part comic series comprises:

1) " Undead and Unwed (Undead Series) "
2) " Undead and Unemployed (Undead Series) "
3) " Undead and Unappreciated (Undead Series) "
4) " Undead and Unreturnable (Undead Series) "
5) " Undead and Unpopular (Undead 5) "
6) " Undead and Uneasy "

There is a "Queen Betsy" novella, set at about the same time as book six, in Davidson's collection " Dead Over Heels ," one of the three paranormal romance stories in that volume, and another in the similar collection "Undead and Underwater."

Then there is the follow-up series, which MJD describes as "a new story arc" featuring the same central characters, begining two months after the events of both "Undead and Uneasy" and "Dead over Heels". This consists to date of

7) " Undead and Unworthy (Undead 7) "
8) " Undead and Unwelcome (Undead 8)
9) " Undead and Unfinished (Undead Series) ".
10) This book, "Undead and Undermined"
11) "Undead and Unstable"
12) "Undead and Unsure"

In my opinion you will get most out of these books if you read them in order. I would start with "Undead and Unwed" and work on from there.

Most of the "Queen Betsy" books are told in the first person by Betsy Taylor/Sinclair. Her style of narration is very "sex in the city" which may grate slightly on some readers, but I soon managed to get used to it. To give you an idea of that style, the first words of the series are "The day I died started out bad and got worse in a hurry."

Mary Davidson has great fun by mixing up the vampire genre as in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" or Laurell Hamilton's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series and Chick-Lit romantic comedy as in "Sex and the City." This series is way over the top, fairly sexy, and often very funny.

An interesting comparison with other authors who have written entertaining comedies by combining incongruous genres would be with Marianne Mancusi and Robert Frezza.

In the same way that this book gets plenty of laughs by combining chick lit with Vampires, Frezza wrote two very funny books which combined Vampires and Science Fiction ("Mclendon's Syndrome" and "The VMR Theory") and Mancusi combined chick lit with time travel in "A Connecticut Fashionista at King Arthur's Court" and "A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest." Anyone who likes this book is likely to enjoy all four of those, and vice versa, if you have read and enjoyed any of those books you will probably like this one.

OK, this is never going to win the Booker Prize or any other great award for classic literature, and it is fairly raunchy, so not suitable for children. However, if you have the right sort of sense of humour, it is good fun. If you enjoyed the rest of the series, and can face staying with it after the kick in the teeth at the end of "Undead and Unfinished," you will probably like "Undead and Undermined."
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