Aspiring actress Carrie Adams lives in LA and is frustrated with casting directors who can’t see beyond her pretty, slim exterior to the determined actress inside. When she’s not auditioning, she works at a local bar. Her verbal sparring with attractive bartender Nick Stokes is both entertaining and annoying—but things take a turn for the even more tense when she starts hankering to kill him. Next, she wakes up with a buff bod of muscles and the ability to conjure a sword of fire. In the case of Carrie and Nick, their enemies-to-lovers romance has literally become coworkers-to-mortal enemies! When Nick was turned into a vampire, a person he disliked—in this case Carrie—gets turned into the vampire slayer tasked with killing him.

This vampire romance is quippy, sexy, and fun. I really loved the behind-the-scenes info about Hollywood. Nick and Carrie’s chemistry is built through pitch-perfect banter. I also loved how music played a role in them growing closer. This book is in the same vampire universe as Gloria’s debut, When Life Gives You Vampires, so there’s still the shadowy cabal of vampires out to harm their own.

I appreciated how Gloria put a new spin on the body image commentary of her debut. This time, she focuses on how a change from the status quo—Carrie’s bulk and muscles—is viewed by Hollywood as “wrong.” It reminded me of the ridiculous comments I read a few weeks ago about certain women athletes at the Olympics and their muscular bodies. I love romances that touch on real-life issues amidst the steam and chemistry.

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