In addition, the heroine works in journalism, publishing, or other media in spite of a frenetic work pace she experiences workplace obstacles she is “quirky” or “creative” she is hyper-aware of body size and caloric intake and she places a great deal of importance on fashion and having the right (albeit beyond-her-budget) dresses, purses, and shoes. According to Stephanie Harzewski’s study, Chicklit and Postfeminism, characteristic elements of this genre include a twenty- or thirtysomething, white, middle- or upper-middle-class, never-married, childless, urban, heterosexual career woman engaged in a seriocomic romantic quest or dating spree. What struck me the most about this book, however, was not the parallels to other paranormal books as much as the many similarities to the chick lit genre. (Note the name Alaric WULF presumably suggests that the character is meant to fill the usual werewolf role in these paranormal love triangles, while the name Meena Harper is of course a play on Mina Harker, the heroine of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.) Cabot stocks her story full of meta references like this, including hat-tips to Charlaine Harris and Stephenie Meyer. Meg Cabot climbs aboard the vampire love train with her “Insatiable Series” starring cute pixie-ish Meena Harper (irresistible to both vampires and vampire-trackers) tall, dark and handsome vampire Lucien Antonescu (from Romania, of course) and tall, blonde and handsome vampire-tracker Alaric Wulf.
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