"A game of 'fantasy come true'"

In modern day New York, Regina "Reggie" McNeill has just fallen prey to the fantasy fix. Her twice-weekly girl's night companions decide that Reggie's hermit lifestyle since her nightmarish breakup with her former fiancé, not so fondly known as Groping Gregory, is over. The fantasy fix, a game of the women matching men to fulfill the fantasies of the others, has gone two round without Reggie. So, two fantasies are due her before the game moves on, whether she wants to collect or not. In a desperate attempt to derail her friends, she puts four impossible wishes into the hat and one real fantasy. While Bigfoot, aliens, and Elvis get off scott-free, her friends are charged with finding a vampire willing to tie Reggie up and dominate her. Lucky for them, there is a monthly Goth Vampire ball coming up.

Dimitri "Misha" Vidame is a seven-hundred-sixty-year-old vampire keeping an eye on the Goth ball along with his best friend, a werewolf named Graham. With none of the young upstart vampires risking exposure of their kind in sight, Misha is about to leave when he spots Regina. She is nothing like the women he usually pursues, and everything his mind and body scream for in a mate. He knows her darkest desires and her most hidden fantasies. No other man may touch her, and looking at her may be hazardous to your health. He will convince the headstrong young human that he is the only man for her if it takes every fantasy she harbors to do the job.

I truly enjoyed FANTASY FIX, and I really hope we get to see more of its kind dealing with the secondary characters. While I didn't get a great feel for some of Reggie's friends, Ava and Missy were very well drawn. On the other hand, I took an immediate and intense liking to both Graham and Rafe, a werecat. The storyline was enjoyable. Ms. Warren got me laughing in the first few pages and kept it rolling through the book. Misha is darkly sensual and just the smug sort of man who needs to meet his match -- and does. Reggie's final acceptance of Misha came a little too quickly for the story up to that time, but it was sweet none-the-less. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a good laugh and some hot encounters.

While many of the sexual encounters seemed to blend one into another making a true count impossible for me, I took breaks that seemed appropriate to me and still came up with a whopping twelve encounters in the 139 pages of text. The sex was varied and very hot. There were light bondage, sex toys, stripping and hand jobs, public sex, spanking, masturbation, and oral sex. Within the secondary characters, there was also a girl on girl scene, voyeurism, and a menage scene with one rather talented werewolf and two nymphette vampires.

SPOILER:

I did have one complaint about this book. In his bid to overwhelm Reggie, Dimitri drives her to tears during one encounter, leaving her angry and frightened. This was not to my tastes, but I was able to move on from it after a bit of time had passed in the story.

Reviewed by Sensual Romance
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted January 24, 2003

Summary

Friends fix you up with blind dates. Real friends fix you up with your fantasies...

Regina just ended an awful relationship. The last thing she needs is her friends' help in finding a new one. When they pressure her into sharing her fantasies, she makes up one she thinks could never come true. After all, vampires don't even exist. Right?

Wrong. And Dmitri Vidâme is the proof. He sees Regina's thoughts and knows her darkest fantasies. What Regina needs is someone who bring handcuffs as well as roses and who sees the possibilities offered by her sensual and giving nature.

With all the electricity sparking between them, and some sneaky mental eavesdropping, Dmitri knows she wants him, too. He just doesn't know if she'll feel the same once she finds out about his nocturnal habits and his liquid diet...

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: vampire.