A very very funny and campy paranormal romance type-parody with some surprisingly good writing, likeable leads, and a nonsensical plot (in the best way possible.) Not Another Vampire Book really captures that feeling of reading a trashy paranormal romance, and this one actually has decent writing to go along with it; you love to laugh at how cheesy the story is, but you’re also usually really rooting for the romance and the characters.

The story follow our heroine, Karalynn, an editor for her small family publishing company. When she’s forced to edit a terribly written historical paranormal romance book, Kara accidentally gets transported inside the book. Except, Kara accidentally changes the entire plot of the book, and is forced to find a way back home and get the book back on track. It doesn’t help she’s majorly attracted to the supposed villain of the story, Damien, who’s a Wizard Warlock who’s vowed to do whatever it takes to get his revenge on the Vampires for killing his entire race.

Now, I know that sounds ridiculous, and it absolutely 100% was. But it really was ridiculous in the best way possible. I was honestly, and unironically, considering giving this book 5 stars up until about the 60% mark. Unfortunately after that, I felt this dragged a little too much (despite the length being quite short anyways). The final climax scene was unnecessarily long, which was definitely the authors intent, but a little bit of a slog to get through, and involved me skimming quite a bit. Still, this is a really solid and fun book, and despite how corny it was, I still actively was rooting for the main couple couple, and cheered when they got together. Also, this book had an absolute top tier spice scene between the main couple, I was gagged.

Anyways, this is my second Cassandra Gannon book, and I think while definitely similar to the first I read from her, it was still really well done. I will definitely be reading more from her in the future.


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Unironically this sounds so good