I received this book from Jo Fletcher Books in exchange for an honest review.

It's 1999, and Angela is still trying to get used to life as a vampire since being turned a year earlier - and figuring out which ways Buffy the Vampire Slayer got it right, and where it got it really wrong. When Angela meets Chloe, there's a connection but can she really date someone when she sleeps all day, never ages, has super strength and flashes fangs every time they make out?

This was, to say it simple, a really enjoyable book. Two girls meet and fall in love but oh wait - one of them is a vampire! This is a story that has a lot of fun with the vampire trope, and keeps it sexy and mysterious while also adding in all the ups and downs and bumbles that dating a vampire brings. The book lacks the danger and gothic horror of Dracula, and the stupid intensity and dramatics of Twilight. Instead we have a submissions editor whose aunt may be a witch, and an astrophysicist who needs to dine out in goth clubs.

There was an added element of discussion and analysis of toxic, abusive relationships (both physical and emotional) as both women had previous experience of one and we see them both grapple with their past experiences and getting over how it made them feel. Chloe also suffers from severe depressions - I feel like this could have been explored a little bit more in the book. It got a bit lost in amidst everything else going on.

I would love more stories set in this world that has a whole array of fantasy creatures - vampires, werewolves, witches and even guardian angels! But I had a really good time reading this one.