25 Days of Book Boyfriends: Ethan Sullivan

A couple weeks ago I joked on Twitter that I was in need of a book boyfriend Advent calendar. There was quite a bit of “yes, please!” from others, but no one could find a good one. Clearly, this was up to me. So, to make the chaotic holiday season a little more fun and a lot more sexy, we’re going to feature a book boyfriend every day for the next 25 days.

That’s right. Welcome to VBC’s 25 Days of Book Boyfriends.

DAY 7: ETHAN SULLIVAN
(CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES)

It’s hard to remember a time when I didn’t love Ethan Sullivan. The Master vampire in Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series is plenty cocky, and in the first book Some Girls Bite (VBC review | Amazon) he pushes heroine Merit hard. Their chemistry is obvious, but getting a vampire that old to adjust to a partnership doesn’t happen overnight. Still, by the third book Twice Bitten (VBC review | Amazon), it’s hard not to be complete on board with Ethan and Merit’s relationship. She may still crack jokes about Darth Sullivan, but many books later, he and Merit’s relationship just keeps getting better.

Meet Ethan Sullivan in Some Girls Bite:

They killed me. They healed me. They changed me.

Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but I was doing fine until Chicago’s vampires announced their existence to the world. When a rogue vampire attacked me, I was lucky he only got a sip. Another bloodsucker scared him off and decided the best way to save my life was to make me the walking undead.

Now I’ve traded sweating over my thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan “Lord o’ the Manor” Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed,
four-hundred-year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately he expects my gratitude—and servitude. Right…

But someone’s out to get me. Is it the rogue vampire who bit me? A vamp from a rival House? An angry mob bearing torches?

My initiation into Chicago’s nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war—and there will be blood.