5 / 5 Stars!
I fully enjoyed this book! It’s like Twilight and Fifty Shades had a baby (with better writing), mentioned so many of my favorite pop culture references, and kept me reading for more!
Christina Miller is your average grad student who works at a horror escape room, lives with her mother who she’s super close too, and keeps busy scraping to get by. She is feisty and smart, though not super confident.
Jonathan Langdon is a rich, worldly, and a several hundred-year-old vampire. He has such old-world charm and manners, all the while thinking like an adult with dirty thoughts.
This book is such a compelling mix! There’s so much innocence at the beginning with the burgeoning romance. Yet, there’s action, violence, and hunting. Plus, there’s spice! Jonathan is all about taking things slow with Christina, but his thoughts are explicit, and the spice is wonderful!
I fully love every single character in this book too. Jonathan is super close to his family, while Christina and her mom have a Gilmore Girls-ish relationship. The banter everywhere is witty and kept me laughing. All the while, the world building continues as we learn about the darker side to the vampire world.
I cannot wait to read the next book, which just came out. In fact, I’m going to do that right now!
Blurb from Goodreads:
You know how people always say everyone is special in their own way? Right. Everyone but me.
I’ve always been completely ordinary and perfectly plain. Even my name is boring: Christina Miller. Nothing sets me apart, and all I have is my mom, a mountain of debt, and a job at an escape room. On my first day as manager, the whole thing seems to be coming down around me.
Until a mysterious stranger offers his help. But underneath his calm, polite exterior lies a heart familiar with darkness and death, and I’m faced with a decision that only I can make: Do I accept that side of him, or lose all of him?
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I’ve never wanted nor needed anyone.
Until I met her. Until the fire in her soul sparked something in mine that I thought I lost a long time ago.
Yet, I can never tell her who I am. What I am.
I am Jonathan Langdon, and I am the great-grandson and the only known living male descendant of the First Ever Vampire, Ambrogio, cursed to a life eternal by the sun-god Apollo. And I’ve always felt that way, cursed, until she looked in my eyes and saw my soul.
But what would she do if she ever learned the truth? Will she run, or will she stand up and embrace the Night?
When my enemy gets a little too close, we may just find out… Whether I want to or not.
