The Last Family Road Trip

Vampire Innocent, Book 4

By: Matthew S. Cox

Narrated by: Nicole Blessing

The universe holds various immutable constants: death, gravity, taxes...and the Wright family road trip. After a couple months as a vampire, Sarah’s mostly adjusted to her new unlife. Despite being 18 and immortal, she embraces staying at home. Her almost demise makes her quite aware that her family won’t be around forever. She only needs to keep her supernatural and normal lives separate. Yeah...that’ll happen.

Every summer, Dad plans a vacation-by-car somewhere across the country. Lameness has increased each year, but Sarah blames that on growing older. She thought dying might get her out of going, but her father’s not about to let something that trivial put an end to the tradition. After renting an RV and tinting the back windows, he’s confident he can bring the whole family along. Of course, as a vampire, Sarah can’t seem to go anywhere without attracting the weird...and the deadly.

©2018 Matthew S. Cox (P)2019 Matthew S. Cox

Vampire Family Time

I genuinely liked this book and I was very sure that I would. I highly recommend it to anyone of any age

New narrator

A new narrator for this book, she doesn't do a bad job but she has a southern accent which is out of place for Seattle as is a New Jersey accent is in Australia but that is a different book.

not quite finished

I feel like I've read a promising paperback that someone has torn pages out of. The parts I have are great but there is so much missing. The premise just has so much to offer without actually taking advantage of where it could go. The main character has so many opportunities to grow in her new life that are simple ignored. It's like the author had a minimum number of pages he was going to write and stopped when he got to it. It was particularly discouraging to get to the end only to have two of the main characters just dropped without any closure. Forget the soccer mom with the vitamins and the horny boyfriend to close out two characters you spent the whole book creating. So many possibilities left floating away. Not a no but I expected more.

the first truly good book in the series, but...

So I've listened to this book a number of times and enjoyed it each time, then to fill my endless work hours with more audiobooks, I listen to the series in order, get to this book and surprise! It has an entirely different sounding narrator, like a monotone, slightly nasal sounding narration that is not like I remember it. Could I have actually enjoyed listening to this serious lack of inflection over and over and not noticed it?! I don't think so, so something is wrong and I am knocking off a star for that before I've even passed the first chapter of my current session. If it's this noticeable and bad all the way through, I might make it another star less specifically for changing the recording for unknown reasons to something less than for doing it to one of the better books in the series.

Sara goes on a road trip, has some related adventure, and meets a few new people. She even battles creatures that redefine her understanding of what's possible about as far as becoming a vampire did. It's all family, fellow campers, and supernaturals, so mostly a clean book, much more than the previous two books.

New Narrator Is Not Good

This fourth book in the series has a new narrator who really spoiled the book for me. She sounded too old for the protagonist narrator, let alone her younger siblings. Most annoying was her rushed, uninspired reading style. Her strange pauses made many sentences confusing. The story is okay, picks up immediately following book three, and worth a read, (but not listen) if you enjoyed the first three. Just my tuppence.