Insatiable tells the story of Meena Harper - a twenty something dialogue writer for the soap opera, Insatiable, living in New York City with the 'gift' of precognition. Meena can tell when she meets someone when and how they are going to die. Things are going too well for Meena at the moment. After losing a promotion due to nepotism and her brother now crashing out on her couch after losing his job in finance, the last thing Meena needs now is to be set up by her pushy and slightly overbearing next door neighbour. 
 Then she meets Lucien Antonescu. Tall, dark, mysterious and handsome, Lucien seems to be the perfect man. He even saves Meena and her little dog from a slightly bizarre bat attack outside a church. To top it off, Meena's gift of prophecy doesn't work on him. 
 Coincidently, he's also the man her neighbour was trying to set her with with. And the Prince of the Vampire race... 
 I liked a lot of little things in this novel. The fact that Jon and Meena Harper's names are just a syllable away from the hero and heroine from Dracula. Meena's dog being named after Keifer Sutherland's character on 24 because of the scared look he always seems to have on his face. And the idea that the Vatican has a super secret vampire slaying team. 
 But the book did not live up to my expectations. It was a little too over the top to be chick-lit but not melodramatic to have the charm of a soap-opera. Insatiable fell somewhere in between the two. Meena harps on about hating the kinds of women who are damels in distress but she does a very convincing impression of one as the action hits - but she does manage to slightly redeem herself by the end of the novel. 
 I loved Alaric, the Vatican sent vampire hunter. After watching many seasons of Buffy, I'm starting to think she was in with the wrong people. Alaric is rolling in money as vampire slaying is a very lucrative business. He's somewhat brash but efficient. Him as a love rival for Meena's affection didn't feel right in terms of the flow of the novel but it did add to the soap-opera nature. 
 Lucien was somewhat bland as a leading man - he's a character that I felt like I've read a million times before with no qualities or little quirks that made him stand out. A vampire prince who is somewhat bored with life until now - when he meets the one person who can redeem his soul from eternal damnation... or something. As a character he bored me and whilst I did want him and Meena to be together in the end, I didn't really care what happened to him as a character. 
 I won't be rushing out to read Overbite (the second book in the Insatiable series). This wasn't a bad read, just not up to the standard of entertaining chick lit that I've come to love and expect from Meg Cabot.