What a Disaster! (Jenre day 3)

Well here I am on this beautiful island, with sun, sea and Pimms - what more could a grown woman want, I ask you? Well some peace and quiet would be a good start!

When I chose my heroes, I was under the, perhaps misguided, impression that they would all get along well and we would be one big happy family in my cabana. Boy was I wrong.

Take Victor Bayne as an example. He's from the Psycop books by Jordan Castillo Price, and as I said in yesterday's post can see and speak to dead people. Last night we went for a 'meet and greet' walk around the other cabanas, just to say hello and be sociable. When we got within a few yards of Kris' cabana, Vic went completely pale, staggered about as though he was going to faint and took off running in the opposite direction. Ever since then he's refused to come out of the hut and sits there muttering under his breath. I've no idea what or who he saw, but I wish he'd snap out of it. Come to think of it, quite a lot of people have been giving Kris' cabana a bit of a wide berth and there's been a few nervous glances cast that way.

I thought that since the two vampires in my hut - Ridley, from KZ Snow's Utopia X series and Wild Bill from the Channeling Morpheus series by Jordan Castillo Price - were gay, they wouldn't mind if I saved on the pennies and bought just one large zip up hammock for them to 'rest' in during the day. How wrong I was! Apparently they are from different vampire gene pools and don't get on with each other. Also Ridley told me that he refuses to rest with Wild Bill on the grounds that he 'stinks like cigarettes and The Powers knows what else'. I did suggest, quite tactfully that Wild Bill might wish to go for a dip in the sea at which point it was his turn to go white (if that's possible with his already pale complexion) and run in the opposite direction. It was hardly my fault that Jack and Matthew took this as a challenge and grabbed him later intending to throw him in the sea. I don't think I've heard anyone squeal so much and if it wasn't for his ability to move swiftly, Wild Bill would have been soaked. As it was Jack and Matthew ended up flat on their backs, nursing a bloody nose each, which didn't help when it came to good relations in the cabana.

Soon after that Mark Hardwicke from I Spy Something Bloody by Josh Lanyon and James Bond from the books by Ian Fleming. Took it upon themselves to disappear into the forest, leaving a note to say that they'd gone exploring and would be back in a few days. I do hope that Mark doesn't get the wrong idea of James, as he is definitely a woman's man. At least they were getting on with each other.

I was hoping that my three Regency/Victorian men would be able to find a common bond. Unfortunately Wulfric Bedwyn, from Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh, or 'that Duke' as the others keep calling him, has not really helped in that department. He's a total snob and refuses to speak to anyone, especially Jack Devlin from Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas who is a bastard son of a nobleman and Matthew Hawkwood from the Hawkwood books by James McGee, who is a bow street runner. The fact that the men earn their living as a publisher and a policeman, seems almost abhorrent to Wulfric. The tension was getting so bad that I had to send Wulfric off for a diplomatic sojourn to the other cabanas to make contact with other aristocrats just to get him out of the hut.

So that leaves just me, Jack and Matthew. Fortunately these two do get on with each other and also with most of the other men (Wulfric excepted). Their laid-back easygoing natures have already made them popular with the other heroes on the island. Thank goodness I've got at least two heroes willing to fetch and carry for me and rub sun cream on my back.

This is my final day on the blog and I've had a great time and I'm really looking forward to meeting all the other newbies. Do come and join me at my blog Well Read.