Author: Beth Fantaskey
Age: YA
Jessica Packwood has always known she was adopted from Romania, but she's grown up as a normal American girl and she wants to have a normal senior year. All that changes when she finds herself being stalked on the first day of school by Lucius Vladescu, who claims that her birth parents were vampires, and her adoptive parents took her from Romania to save her from the angry villagers (not to mention rival vampires) who wanted her dead. Not only that, Lucius also thinks he's a vampire, and he claims that they've been betrothed since they were infants and that they must marry and unite their two warring families to bring peace to vampiredom. What's worse, Jessica's crazy hippie parents actually back up his story and invite him to move in, so that he can make Jessica fall in love with him and convince her to marry him.
OK, yes, this is exactly the sort of teen fluff book that my husband mocks me for reading...and it's about vampires, which makes it even worse (at least in his eyes). Those of you who have come here looking for more serious books can ignore this post...but I know that some of you secretly, or not-so-secretly, love this kind of stuff too. This book is decently funny, the romance is pretty hot, and in a sea of Twilight wannabees, here's what makes this book worthwhile: the vampire is GOOD.
Like, I like him even better than Edward good. (Blasphemy, I know!) Yes, I know Edward is ideal in many ways...but Lucius is everything a dark hot vampire should be, and Edward isn't. Lucius is arrogant, sometimes cruel (so that his flashes of kindness are that much more unexpected), has a sexy Romanian accent, and he's actually SCARY. Plus, in my mind, he doesn't look ANYTHING like Robert Pattinson. So I'm sorry Edward...but Lucius is my new vampire crush.
And there's also the added perk that Jessica is already a vampire (or turning into one as she hits vampire puberty) so you don't have to wade through several volumes of her whining about how much she wants to be a vampire.
Recommended for readers who like: Twilight; teen romance; hot scary evil undead boyfriends who have their own castle
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