Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side(Jessica #1)
Publication: 1st February 2009
Publisher: Harcourt
Pages: 351
Genre: Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
The undead can really screw up your senior year ...
Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth—and he’s her long-lost fiancé. Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire’s Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions, Jessica makes a dramatic transition from average American teenager to glam European vampire princess. But when a devious cheerleader sets her sights on Lucius, Jess finds herself fighting to win back her wayward prince, stop a global vampire war—and save Lucius’s soul from eternal destruction.
Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth—and he’s her long-lost fiancé. Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire’s Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions, Jessica makes a dramatic transition from average American teenager to glam European vampire princess. But when a devious cheerleader sets her sights on Lucius, Jess finds herself fighting to win back her wayward prince, stop a global vampire war—and save Lucius’s soul from eternal destruction.
My Thoughts.
I've been wanting to read this book for quite a while now and since I was sent the second book in the series to review I was quite excited to start it, and I was not disappointed.
Jessica is your normal everyday teenager or so she believes, one morning while waiting for the bus to school she notices a guy standing across the road staring at her, feeling a bit weirded out she's very grateful when the bus arrives, but in English class later that day there's a new foreign exchange student in class Lucius, none other than the strange boy from that morning.
It's while her mum is driving her home after school that she sees Lucius by the side of the road and Jessica points him out to her mum after telling her the story, then unbelievably her mum gets out of the car and invites him to dinner.
It's while eating dinner that Jessica is told that her real name is Antanasia and she's a vampire princess, not only that but she's told that Lucien (who is a vampire prince) and her were promised to each other at birth and they are to be married when Jessica is eighteen.
Of course Jessica thinks that they are all crazy and there's no such thing as vampire's let alone her being one, it takes quite a while for her to accept it as truth and by then Lucien appears to have moved on to the popular girl at school while Jessica has been dating a boy from school.
It's after Lucien starts dating someone else that she realises she loves Lucien and needs to talk him back into the pact (getting married to stop a war between their feuding families) before it's too late.
I loved how at the start Lucien was so formal but then started to relax and dress and act like all the rest of the American kids he was so fond of making fun of.
We also hear about the way Lucien was brought up by his Uncles (they used to beat him) after both his and Jessica's parents were killed by the same mob many years before.
I also lovd the originality of the vampire story, males are born vampires but the females aren't fully vampires until they are bitten.
Great storyline and characters, now I'm off to start the second book.
I give 4/5.
This sounds different from the usual vampire romances in terms of the history! I've been waiting to read this for a long time! Great review :)
ReplyDeleteI liked this one too, it was different. I didn't love the ending but the rest of the book was good. I loved the letters Lucius sent to his Uncle.
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