Gothic vampire western romance with humour.....Since the forth and final book in this series is due out in June I've decided to re-read the previous three and I'm so glad I did I'd forgotten just how funny these books are.The problem with this book is categorising it, it's a romance, yes, a vampire book, yes, it has humour but it's not a comedy. I wasn't sure quite what to expect, from the title my original thought was "comedy" and yes like I said it has humour, it's a dry humour and while it's not a comedy as such I was laughing and shaking the whole way through but like I said it's not a comedy. I was a bit intrigued I must admit, I was surprised to discover it was first published in 1999 and is now in it's third printing, I'd never heard of it before.Anyway back to the book, it's a romance and it starts out like a normal book, down to earth cowboy Tucker from the small town of LonePine, population of just 438 falls for New York reporter Lizzie, these two couldn't really be more opposite but it works and at the start of the book I forgot for a few pages that I wasn't reading just a normal romance but then the word vampire came up and the book took a different turn.This book is weird there's no other way to describe it, it's weird but it works and one of the main reasons it does is the characters, they're real, believable people. They relate to each other like real people do which is rarer than you'd think, especially in the books I read. I loved Tucker and his dad, and Lenny, Lenny is brilliant. The book is built on believable characters and so even though the story is pure fantasy I was there routing for Tucker and Lizzie and the rest because I actually cared about them and what happened to them, and there's no way I could review this book without mentioning Rex, the best dog in the world.Why 4 stars and not 5, well there's a couple of main reasons, firstly the POV kept switching and although it didn't take long to work out who it was it still wasn't always clear immediately and the ending wasn't a surprise, I don't think it was supposed to be but it would have been nice, apart from that it was all good.I've still no idea how to categorise this book, I'm coming down on the side of 'gothic vampire western romance with humour' catchy....maybe not.Will I read the next book, yes as soon as I've finished this.ARC provided by NetGalleyA few bits to give you a feel for the book.On the way to town, I met a bunch of folks on the highway who I knew well enough to swerve across the center asphalt line like I was going to hit them and then they’d throw their arms up as if to cover their faces from the coming accident. It was big fun on Highway 14 at seven in the morning, which says a lot about the entertainment prospects of living in LonePine. All God’s creatures have a purpose and I suspect that holds true for alpacas, but I can’t tell what that might be. Best I can figure, their purpose in life is to act haughty and spit on whatever they can’t shit on, which is pretty much everything. (When arriving in LonePine) Elita slid down in her seat and shook her head. “I haven’t seen this much desolation since the black plague.” “You’ll need to get into it tomorrow during the day when I’m sleeping.” "Honey, it ain’t sleeping. Let’s call a cow a cow. You’ll be dead......""Don’t look at me like that. You expect me to be happy about watching her stay young and beautiful while I just get more and more ruggedly handsome with the years? Having to keep her stashed by day and never being able to have the boys over for a beer at night for fear she would eat them?”