My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine Book Review

“Something about this whole absurd situation—being snowed in and stuck for who knew how much longer with my vampire plus-one; telling him we absolutely could not kiss again, only to end up wrapped in his arms—made something inside me snap.”

(pg. 238)

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Author: Jenna Levine

Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance

Series: My Vampire Book 2

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My Roommate is a Vampire

Synopsis

Nothing sucks more than fake dating a vampire in this paranormal romantic comedy from the USA Today bestselling author of My Roommate Is a Vampire.

Amelia Collins is by definition successful. She would even go so far as to say successfully single. But not according to her family, and she’s tired of the constant questions about her nonexistent dating life. When an invitation to yet another family wedding arrives, she decides to get everyone off her back once and for all by finding someone–anyone–to pose as her date.

After a chance encounter with Reginald Cleaves, Amelia decides he’s perfect for her purposes. He’s a bit strange, but that’s fine; it’ll discourage tough questions from her family. (And it certainly doesn’t hurt that he’s very handsome.) For centuries-old vampire Reggie, posing as her plus-one sounds like the ultimate fun. And if it helps his ruse of pretending to be human, so much the better.

As Amelia and Reggie practice their fauxmance, it becomes clear that Reggie is as loyal to her as the day is long, and that Amelia’s first impressions could not have been more wrong. Suddenly, being in a real relationship with Reggie sounds pretty fang-tastic.

Review

Spoilers Contained Below

To my vampire lovers,

The My Vampire series has quickly become my favorite light-hearted reads 💗.

The Vampire series is as addictive as a first bite and leaves you laughing with delirium and joy

Genuinely, just such a fun series that doesn’t take paranormal too seriously, but plays on the paranormal with a hilarious cheekiness that leaves you laughing and feeling nothing but endearing love for these paranormal characters trying to navigate the real world. I just really love the way Jenna Levine writes with such a comical ease that makes her stories feel like your watching your favorite show or movie—you’re just geared up for a good time.

And that’s what I need as a reader sometimes—stories that are easy to follow and just bring a genuine smile to my face.

Reggie made me laugh as much as he made Amelia did 💗.

I just loved loved loved Reggie’s character and how we highlighted more of his hilarious and quirky nature from My Roommate is a Vampire. He is just so easy to fall in love with with his charm and his unique fashion. I love how he loves to stand out because he thinks his clothes makes him blend in better than what “normal” people wear. I also love his knack for teasing Fredrick endlessly, but also how they have such a brotherly camaraderie in the way they text and care for each other; I loved how Reggie was going to Fredrick for help now too.

Amelia Collins struck me as a strong, independent woman who was steadfast in her career but annoyed in her families’ intrusion to her dating life.

They kept asking her at dinner if she was dating anyone, and I understand as a nosy person that yes, I love to know who people are dating, but also that’s not the most interesting thing about a person. I think nowadays we should let people choose to open up if they are seeing anyone and not ask as much because it does get annoying after a point. As a longtime single girlie, being constantly asked if you are single does not make me less single 😂. Asking only further glaringly points out the fact that, no, I’m not seeing anyone. I don’t mean to sound irritated, but also it’s kind of irritating when you’re asked so much because there’s always a negative connotation associated with being single—-like you are lesser or “poor you, you’re single.” There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being single. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being in a relationship. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being single and wanting to find someone but haven’t found anyone yet, or being single and not really wanting to date. There’s nothing wrong with how a person feels about being in a relationship, but there is a part of me that feels prickly when people make other people feel bad because they are single. Gosh knows some people who are single aren’t single because they haven’t tried finding someone, but it’s hard, especially these days. And some people are genuinely not looking for a relationship right now or working on themselves, and that’s not something to feel ashamed of either. I just wish there wasn’t so much shame around being single or feeling this constant pressure to find someone because if you aren’t with someone, there’s this idea you aren’t happy.

If there’s anything I think we should teach children, is that they don’t need a partner to make themselves happy. Happiness has to come from them in doing what they love and brings them joy. No one else can give someone their own happiness.

So it bothers me when people assume that if you are single, you are some harrowed old hag 😕. Tell me I’m wrong.

I’m not in a relationship, but I am no harrowed old hag 👏🏼.

And no one else who is not in a relationship is some harrowed old hag who’s crying all the time waiting for Prince Charming to ride up on his white horse and gold chain, making them happy 😂.

Happiness doesn’t come when a man instantly shows up.

Happiness is expounded on when a partner shows up, but happiness shouldn’t magically come; happiness should be there in some form before then, even if that happiness isn’t always constant because gosh knows happiness comes and goes.

Anyway, I would darn right feel irritated like Amelia if my family kept harping on me to find a boyfriend. To get her parents off her back about her cousin Gretchen’s wedding, Amelia said she had a boyfriend she could bring as a plus one.

I laughed with the coincidence of how Amelia found the person to fake-date her as her plus-one.

Reggie and Amelia quite literally ran into each other.

And what a Reggie thing to tell Amelia to fake laugh with him on the street or kiss him 😂. Like what?!?! If a stranger ran into me and told me to fake laugh with him or kiss him, I would have done the third option and kick him where the sun don’t shine and run the other way.

I loved how Amelia’s fake laugh was so awful that Reggie laughed at her fake laugh, which made Amelia real laugh at how bonkers this guy was for telling her to laugh with him. I would have laughed eventually too. The second Reggie told Amelia that he owed her one, I knew that she was going to have to find him somehow and ask him to fulfill that favor. So when Amelia saw him sans fedora hat and trench coat in the coffee shop, she approached Reggie to tell him her insane plan—to be her fake date.

I loved how Reggie’s initial reaction was that he was down because this was a good a** prank 😂. Of course he would play along because he loved pranks.

But I also really loved how as much as he wanted to fake date Amelia as part of this “prank” to her parents, he also took the fake-dating really seriously. I mean, how sweet 🥺💗.

I loved how he called Amelia in the middle of the night because he was nocturnal and had nothing better to do and wanted to talk to Amelia about their plan—where they met, how long they had been together. He really wanted to know his role as her fake boyfriend so he wouldn’t mess up; Amelia didn’t even think about how they should have a backstory until he called her.

You know, you can call Reggie a vampire, but you can’t call him a red flag.

The way he wrote in his bullet journal how he wanted to tell Amelia the truth about him being a vampire from the beginning because of what happened with Fredrick and Cassie was the ultimate green flag. I mean, wanting to tell someone the truth from the get go? GREEN FLAG. Learning from someone else’s experience? GREENER FLAG.

When Reggie told Cassie he was a vampire, and she thought it was a joke, I COULD NOT 😂.

I WAS LAUGHING.

The one time a guy tells the truth and someone thinks it’s a joke 😅.

But also, I couldn’t blame Amelia for thinking Reggie was being his usual hilarious self. Also, this was the middle of the night and her brain was probably delulu, so she wasn’t thinking much and thought Reggie wouldn’t drop something as serious as being a vampire on her. Add in the fact that to her vampires didn’t exist, I don’t blame her for not believing Reggie when he told her his deepest, darkest secret.

I felt so bad though 😅.

Here Reggie was thinking the WHOLE TIME that he got some huge weight off his chest by telling Amelia about who he really was, and she was thinking he made a joke. And the way that Reggie felt at ease with how nonchalant Amelia was from his news?? My heart 🥺. That was probably the first time Reggie felt fully accepted as he was by a human because there was no freak out or all these questions; Reggie must have felt seen and appreciated, which made him fall a bit more in love with Amelia.

HAHAHA, but I could not with how every time Reggie would kind of hint at his vampire ways, she would think Reggie was just being quirky or charming. Couldn’t go into a house because he needed permission or they needed to ring the doorbell to be asked inside? Charming 😂. Didn’t eat anything at the party? Specific dietary restrictions like her brother Sam.

In the back of my head, I wanted to scream at her that he was a VAMPIRE!!!

He sucked blood. He couldn’t be let inside unless invited inside.

If only she really knew the way Reggie thought she knew.

OH MY GOSH, I was in HYSTERICS over the fact that she thought his big secret was he was unemployed 😂.

Yea, she wishes that were the secret.

But I loved how they would email each other little facts to get to know each other or more details about their story as a couple. In those emails, Reggie mentioned how he was between jobs, which is code for no job. She thought he was embarrassed that he didn’t have a job 🥺, and she wanted to be sensitive to that. I mean, that was really sweet even if that wasn’t the real reason 😂.

Reggie dressing up like old money Big Bird had me 😂. Good old Mr. Fuzzy.

Like can you imagine being Amelia in a LBD, and then seeing your date who you randomly ran into on the street and asked to be your fake boyfriend, show up in a big a** yellow fur coat and bright a** yellow pants? 😂 Talk about dressing up. But I loved that part about Reggie—his unabashed and no shame wardrobe. I mean, I love a confident king.

Reggie meeting Amelia’s parents was something else.

The way Reggie idolized and was so in awe of Amelia’s dad was soooo endearingly cute. “A real life history professor.” 😂 I think the dad must have felt important to have someone care about what he did or show even a spark of interest because no one really is interested in history majors sometimes. I just thought it was cute how Reggie bonded with the dad and how much you could tell the dad liked Reggie for taking a genuine interest in what he did.

I know I’ve said I laughed a lot, but my goodness, I truly full on cackled when Reggie met Amelia’s mom 🤣. OH MY GOSH, that was soooooo funny. Amelia said Reggie worked in Tech, and then Reggie asked if he could embellish the story because working in Tech sounded boring to him. So when he showed up at the party and the mom asked him what he did, and he said, “I work at a carnival.” I LAUGHED. OUT LOUD. 😂

Nothing wrong with working at a carnival, but in the context of this situation? HILARIOUS.

I don’t think that’s what Amelia had in mind when she said yes you can add to the Tech story.

He was a carine.

I had no idea what a carine was. Now I do.

Amelia bringing this mysterious boyfriend she never mentioned before who came in this atrocious yellow fur coat and he said he worked at a carnival?????? That’s not what the mom probably ever envisioned for Amelia 😅 . I did love the way the mom tried to show understanding and interest in what Reggie did, and how she was fully enraptured by Reggie’s tale of working at the different booths and how he did Tech and worked in an office and that’s how he met Amelia. I laughed at Reggie’s tale about how he worked all these office jobs and how his “heart was never in it,” so he switched to work at a carnival. Kind of surprised me from the mom that she nodded solemnly with understanding at Reggie and was like, “I hope your parents support your decision.”

As much as the mom didn’t understand Amelia’s decision for being an accountant, she sounded like she understood the value of doing something you loved. I wish she understood how much Amelia loved what she did even if she didn’t understand why Amelia chose to be an accountant.

You know what I loved?

The way Jenna Levine took a profession that is harped on as being boring and dull and brought appreciation to that profession 👏🏼.

Because nothing against accountants, but yea, when people hear that someone is an accountant, the reaction is to cringe or give them a weird look because accountant? Numbers? Doing math all day? Pressing a calculator the entire time? To many people that sounds like snooze town USA. Accounting has this reputation of not being the most exciting job in the world. Not every job is going to be the most exciting job in the world, and not everyone will like what you do or understand what you do. But guess what? That’s not for them to care about because that’s not what they are doing 🤪; that’s literally not their job.

If you enjoy what you do and it brings you satisfaction or a challenge, then that’s all that matters—the fact that there’s something you derive from your work. That’s the only thing that has to make sense because it’s your work.

If someone else wants to harp on that? That says more about them than it does about you.

So I didn’t like the way Amelia felt like she wasn’t good enough to her family because she was an accountant and her brother was a lawyer, and when he graduated they threw him a huge party because being a lawyer is the epitome of a career. But I truly think that we need to give it up to all careers because we would not have a functioning society if we didn’t have our accountants, teachers, grocers, custodians/janitors/cleaning crews, fire fighters, booksellers, etc. All jobs should be treated with equal importance and regarded as so because we all do significant things. The only real differentiation between these jobs is the pay and the respect or lack thereof we have ingrained in society of treating certain professions.

I loved loved loved how even if Reggie didn’t know what in the heck Amelia did, he continuously hyped her up and made her feel important for what she did 🥺💙. Honestly, someone who shines a light to what you do and makes you feel valued for it is so so special and sweet. Reggie really cared about Amelia if he wanted to make her feel good about her work when he knew that everyone else made her feel unappreciated or unnoticed in what she did. People who love you make you feel seen and valued, and Reggie did exactly that time and time again, and I loved that—adored that. I wish more people were like Reggie and hyped people up for their careers.

“‘You are the hardest working, most incredible brilliant person,’ He murmured against the top of my head.”

(pg. 298)

Amelia worked really hard, which is something I feel like we could all relate to.

I know in America there is the culture of living to work and in other countries they work to live—Americans constantly work that it has become our life.

I don’t like the idea that sometimes we work so hard that we barely forget to live, but that’s a sentiment I fear I’ve fallen into. I feel guilty for taking a break too or that I have to earn a break in order to have a break. Even when I do take a break, I’m constantly thinking about the next thing I need to do. Overworking and overthinking is an unhealthy balance. So I really loved the moments where Reggie centered Amelia whenever he saw her working too hard. When he went to her office that random day when he was being chased, he saw her working later and asked her to take a break with him at the bar. The only reason Amelia told allowed herself to go was because she said she needed to better form her and Reggie’s story for their fake-dating scheme. Underneath her reasoning, she genuinely just wanted a break. There was also the detail of how Amelia would leave the office earlier than she would have used to. As a teacher, we have certain contract hours. If you ask any teacher though, I can 10000% guarantee you, most teachers find themselves staying past our contract hours because we never have enough time to get everything we feel like we need to get done, and also I know for me, there’s this underlying guilt that if I don’t stay late and get things done, I’m wasting time and my productivity because then everything gets shifted to the next day and the next. That kind of mindset, honestly, sucks. But that’s the reality of being a teacher—you feel like you’re never doing enough and there’s not enough time to do everything you feel like you need to get done. I can only imagine what it must be like for other careers and the guilt they might also carry with telling themselves they need to stay later as if that makes them worthy of doing enough for their work. It’s hard.

I completely understood where Amelia was coming from. I should take my own advice when I write it next, but just because we stay late for work, doesn’t make us better or more worthy for our job. I wish she knew that, and didn’t harbor guilt for leaving work early when she should leave work early if her hours were done. Go live life. Work will always be there, but living your life doing things that make you feel happy? That’s rare.

I liked seeing Amelia slowly take breaks because Reggie made her feel like she could breath. I loved when they were staying at the cabin, and he saw her working at night because she couldn’t sleep, and he asked her to take a break with him and then go back to work if she still felt like she wanted to. So Amelia followed him to the games closet and they eventually went snowshoeing. But what I liked about this moment was how Reggie not only knew Amelia needed a reason to take a break, but how she didn’t think as hard for allowing herself to just let go and have fun. And she did have fun and enjoy herself, which was what mattered 💗.

My favorite part of the whole book was the Wisconsin cabin part.

I loved loved loved how they went up to the cabin and, of course, there was a huge snowstorm and no one else could join them. And of course, there was only one bed for them to share. But you know in the moment, I was thinking if they were alone in this huge cabin, one bed wasn’t a big deal because they had a whole house at their disposal 😅. But you know, I don’t fight the one bed trope in a rom com.

I loved loved loved when Reggie braved the snowstorm to go to the grocery store because Amelia needed food 🥺. I loved how he grabbed everything he thought she could eat or would like, and that he flew to another grocery store just to get her more chocolate because he remembered from that email that she loved chocolate and pancakes. Get you a partner that remembers 👏🏼!

“‘The truth is, I quite like making you happy . . . ‘I’m quite frightened to think too much about what that means, because I honestly can’t remember the last time I wanted to do anything for another persons, simply for its own sake. And without having an ulterior motive . . But for you, I would brave a blizzard just to see you smile.'”

(pg. 191)

But also get you a partner who is not afraid to wear his/her/their emotions on his/her/their sleeve 🥺💗.

UGH, STOP BEING SO CHARMING 😫. Like sooooo cute!!!

I would brave a blizzard just to see you smile??? No one brave a regular day just to see me smile 🙃.

If Amelia didn’t absolutely fall in love with Reggie in that moment, she was lying to herself. I would ripped my heart out and said, “here, have it.” I just loved his thoughtfulness and his honesty—they were so refreshing and sweet.

When Amelia found out Reggie was an actual vampire, I winced but also exhaled.

She needed to find out eventually. I’m glad she found out sooner rather than later when Reggie’s fangs came out amid a heated kiss.

I felt awful for the way Reggie slowly backtracked with how he held her or his proximity to Amelia because he knew that she was uncomfortable at the idea of him being a vampire. What made this whole situation worse was knowing Reggie thought Amelia wasn’t scared of him—that she accepted him—only to realize that Amelia was actually scared of him being a vampire because she thought he was playing a joke on her. I thought it was really sweet and considerate how Reggie pulled back and gave Amelia space to process because he truly would never do anything to hurt her.

I loved how Sophie was the one to talk Amelia down. I loved that Sophie was so unbothered by the idea that Reggie was a vampire—like that fact wasn’t the wildest thing she heard 😂. I think Sophie took the news better than Amelia 😂.

I don’t blame Amelia for freaking out at all because anyone in her situation would have rightfully freaked out—questions swirling their brain. I would have felt the exact same way. Sophie kept prompting Amelia to think about Reggie and how he had never done anything to hurt her in the time that he knew her. If Reggie wanted to hurt her, he would have also done so sooner, which good point on Sophie’s part. But he had been nothing but considerate, thoughtful, and sweet. I loved how Amelia knew in her bones that Reggie would not hurt her despite this new information she had because she knew his character. I believe that Amelia being able to trust Reggie so openly was a testament to his character and who he honestly presented to her.

I just think she needed to get through her initial shock and process what Reggie’s news meant to her. Because yea, dating a vampire and potentially loving him was not something many in her world had experience with, so she didn’t know what to feel. I get that.

I laughed with my whole body at the messages Reggie put on his bullet journal discord 😂.

I need to be on the bullet journal discord because they be having some wild conversations 🤪

Sidetrack for a bit, I loved loved loved how into bullet journaling Reggie was. From laughing at the idea and wanting to throw away the journal Cassie gave him, to writing in different colors, textures, with stickers and ribbons and going on a bullet journal discord, had me kicking my feet like a little kid licking an ice cream cone. It was just too cute and sweet 🥺💗. But also really funny with how Reggie thought to go online and join a bullet journal discord group to talk about everything but bullet journaling. The whole, I messed up really bad and the whole blood play, had me in hysterics 😂. Who knew bullet journalers were spicy?

We love to hear it.

But back to what I was saying, once Amelia got past the truth of Reggie being a vampire, she was still hesitant about him because she didn’t understand what being a vampire meant, but I don’t think she feared Reggie. She knew who he was. There was this really cute moment when they went snowshoeing, and Reggie let down his guard to talk about his past. He spoke about how he was ancient and that his parents passed away a long time ago because when you’re immortal, you see people you love pass away time and time again, which had to be its own stake in the chest. I understood where Reggie was coming from with not wanting to get too close to anyone because he didn’t want to feel the pain of inevitably losing that person 😕. So he joked, he had a facade, but he really loved Amelia, and it was sweet to see himself open up to her because he was falling for her.

Reggie also talked about how he was a vampire fugitive.

When he was many years younger, he left a teasing note at a party about how “I hate you all and am going to burn this place to the ground.” Little did he know, someone that night did burn that whole estate to the ground and the vampires in it, which caused a riot in the vampire community. Ancestors of those who were in this fire, formed the Collective, and they were after Reggie all these years in retribution to their ancestors. They thought he burned the place to the ground because of his note, when he didn’t really, he was just teasing. Reggie used to be this whole other person, and in his words, an a**hole. However, people change, and he did. Reggie showed Amelia the worst side of him, thinking that doing so might deter Amelia because she already knew the hardest thing about him, why not just lay it all out there. But Amelia didn’t fear Reggie more or think less of him because of his actions a long time ago, she just saw a vampire who made a mistake with a dumb message, but a really nice vampire now; she loved him for all he was and the man he presented to her. That to me is true acceptance far beyond Reggie just telling her he was a vampire.

I thought Amelia worrying about Reggie when he didn’t show up after nearly half an hour when they were supposed to do spicy things was sweet. Any woman would have been raging and would have felt, indeed, ghosted. But Amelia felt like something was wrong and wanted to make sure Reggie was okay. I liked how she reached out to Fredrick who she spoke to and had text exchanges with; Reggie had to fly away because the Collective followed him to the cabin.

I loved when Amelia and Reggie did reunite when she drove back from the cabin, Reggie showed her his pros and cons list of dating her 🥺💗.

My heart was swelling and laughing at the same time. I laughed with how he wrote dating Amelia would be a efficient because he couldn’t stop thinking about her, so dating her would save time. I loved how he said he would buy her food to eat and always made her laugh because he loved making her laugh. I laughed with how he said he wanted to do the spicy with her because “tbh she would really enjoy it”—the cockiness and the humbleness. I loved how he said he would devote the rest of existence to her, which coming from a guy who lived forever meant a lot. I just thought he bared his heart to her already, and now he was showing her even more of his heart. I really loved that 💗.

Not going to lie, their spiciness was enough to burn a vampire 🔥.

Oooooh, but the way she let go all of her inhibitions and rational thought too? Pop off queen!

No, but like, please stretch your neck all the way out to the point you become half giraffe 😂. Honestly, I would have stretched my neck too, tease it a little, if I was in this situation. I mean, how could you not? Hot. But also, it made sense biting someone would be an aphrodisiac because if a vampire bit someone, that diminishes the purpose if the bite feels painful.

Reggie really said vampire though 👏🏼👏🏼!!

And he also said he was utterly happy 🥺💗. My heart.

Or how the morning after, Amelia rolled over and saw Reggie smile with his whole face—little crinkle lines by his eyes and all—and I loved that. Seeing him smile and actually mean it was special because Reggie was someone who laughed like a second job or made everyone around him happy, but sometimes that was a facade. So to see his real smile, that he shared that with her? Gosh, had to mean the world to her.

I liked how Amelia also wanted to help Reggie find and take down the Collective so they stopped chasing him.

Because we got these little blurbs before chapters, we knew the Wyatt Foundation was the Collective. They needed help from an accountant to keep up face that they were a normal group of “people.” I think after Amelia believed Reggie for being a vampire, she truly should have pieced together the oddness that was the Wyatt Foundation from all their random PDFs and tidbits. I’m no doctor, but PhD esquire doesn’t sound right to me 😂.

Their whole plan to get the Collective for tax backpay was comical, and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way 😂.

“‘You will leave Reginald Cleaves alone, effective immediately, or else face dire consequences with the IRS!”

(pg. 344)

I have never ever ever cackled so loudly.

What in the heck?

That’s so inane to say—like that sentence doesn’t roll off the tongue 😂.

Their original plan was to have Amelia talk about how she was going to close the Collective file because they were ridiculous and blackmail them to leave Reggie alone because if they didn’t she would tell the IRS about how their foundation hadn’t been paying taxes for the last fifty years. They would go to jail and there would be no blood in jail for them to survive. If they agreed to leave Reggie alone, she wouldn’t say a thing. Fredrick and Reggie were there as a surprise factor and also for Fredrick to show support for Reggie in the vampire community.

Dang Evelyn ruined the plan by being there 😂.

I loved how Amelia did have her cringey mic-drop moment when she, Reggie, and Fredrick left the meeting room to go find Mr.Richardson who was shocked at seeing Reggie so blatantly there. Nothing scares people more like the IRS. I found it sad though how Mr. Richardson was like, “What do we do now that we don’t chase Reggie around?” That’s what their mission had been this whole time, so it was like what do they do without a cause? I laughed with how Reggie was like, go get a life and stop holding grudges 😂 because for real. Truly, they had nothing better to do than chase down a man who they thought started an age old fire centuries ago???? Honestly, they should have given up a LONG LONG time ago!

With the Collective off their back, Amelia and Reggie were free to explore what they meant to each other. I liked the idea of how both of them didn’t truly know the extent of their relationship because he would live forever and she would not. So what did that mean for them? I appreciated how Reggie never made Amelia feel pressured to be more than who she was to him, and that he said he would never make her feel like she had to Turn the way Cassie did (which btw, crazy but so happy for Fredrick and Cassie). I liked how they knew that they wanted to be in each other’s futures as long as they could, and they were taking their relationship day by day. I thought that was a very honest way to go about their relationship or any relationship because most stories promise happy ever after—a forever things—but they didn’t have forever, they had right now. So happy for now was really sweet 💗.

“I don’t know how to pretend, I’d explained.

Maybe I’d gotten a little better at pretending since then. How fittingly ironic it was that now, at Gretchen’s wedding, there would be no more pretending between us at all.”

(pg. 354)

Amelia and Reggie going to Gretchen’s wedding was fun.

I loved how full of life Amelia was in letting herself laugh and enjoy her time there than dreading being at the wedding alone, brooding over all the gushiness of the day. Even if Amelia didn’t have a plus-one, I don’t think she would have been bitter or any less happy, but it was nice knowing she was happier because she didn’t feel like she was going through the emotions alone. That’s not me saying you need a partner to be happy, but they do add to your happiness.

I think the most shocking part of this book wasn’t the fact that Reggie was a vampire, but that Amelia didn’t know how to do the chicken dance.

That’s sacrilegious.

How in the HECK does someone not know the chicken dance by the time they are thirty??????

I’m sorry, not to shame, but a little a shame 😂

I would have thought her history professor father would have the courtesy of teaching her the historically iconic chicken dance.

I loved loved loved how Reggie being entirely Reggie without a care in the world, pulled Amelia up to chicken dance with him because he knew dancing would make her laugh 💗. He’s just such a fun guy and so sweet. I don’t even know how many times I’ve said sweet in this post, but probably enough to vomit with how sweet Reggie is. He’s just a great guy.

Just such a fun read that had me grinning in the cheesiest way the whole time. Truly.

The only thing I would have liked more would have been to see Amelia standing up to her family about her dietary needs and career because I think she needed a moment of self-respect to say her piece. They should have been more considerate of what she could eat or how they made her feel about her job. I think she should have also said something about how they made her feel about being single for so long—the implication that she wasn’t enough or not happy. Having that conversation with her parents would have added more confidence to Amelia, which would have been cool to see. I thought we could have also explored a bit more why she worked so hard and tried to fly under the radar. I’m not a middle child, but I can understand how being a middle child makes you feel like no one pays attention to you, so you try not to cause any waves and do things yourself. But I wish she knew that she deserved to be cared about, and didn’t need to work so hard to prove to anyone that her job was good enough and she was good enough at her job.

I look forward to the next book on another hopefully hilarious and crazy vampire journey💗.

I read the synopsis for the next book and know Grizelda the Terrible witch will be the female protagonist, so I’m excited about that! I liked that Jenna Levine is opening up the world to different paranormal creatures. Are we doing werewolves next? Mummies? Mermaids? I would like all the paranormal. There’s truly a market for lighthearted paranormal romances, and I’m here for it 👏🏼! I want the lighthearted paranormal!!!

Grizelda seems like an interesting character though. She has history with Reggie in being long term friends. She lives in California now and owns a yoga studio and an Etsy shop that sells her slogan of “laughs hard, lives hard, and plays hard.” I laugh hard, but I don’t know about lives hard and plays hard 😅. When it was mentioned in The Annals of Vampryic Lore that she was involved with arson crimes and she liked “to watch things burn,” I knew she was the one who started that fire. I liked how she wrote a note later on that hinted at how Reggie kept her secret all these years. I mean, if the Collective had a collective brain cell, they would have pieced together what I did in two seconds that they failed to do in fifty centuries 👏🏼! And yes, that is shade thrown down at them.

But I’m interested to learn more about the witches in this world and apparently a vampire who doesn’t remember anything . . .

What was your thoughts of the book? What was your favorite part of the book? Least favorite part? What is the craziest thing you have done for love/romance?

Let me know below in the comments as I love hearing from you all 💕

I hope you have a beautiful day whenever and wherever you might be reading this 😊.

And as always, with love,

Rating

4.78 Full Bloom Flowers

Characters: Reggie is such a sweetheart and a gem 💗. He’s just so hilarious, but also very thoughtful and I loved getting to know him more in this book. I also really liked Amelia because she felt relatable as a person, but I would have liked to know more of her backstory.

Writing: Jenna Levine writes stories that reminds me of the beauty of reading books that just make me smile 🥰

Plot: I thought reading about a vampire as a roommate wasn’t wildly funny enough, but My Vampire Plus-One takes that and makes it even funnier and a lot sweeter

Romance: Okay, but like where do I find me a vampire who flies in the middle of a blizzard to raid all the chocolate in a store just because he remembered that I liked chocolate? Okay, no where, got you 😢. Jokes aside, very sweet and endearing. I also liked how there was no big moment that felt super contentious, and how Reggie and Amelia were going to take their relationship as they went.