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How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love by D.N. Bryn
4.0
***ARC Review***
This is my honest review for the ARC I received.
This is the second book in the Guides for Dating Vampires series. Once again D.N. Bryn gives us a great ace-rep story with a fantastic slow burn paranormal romance. I really appreciated the disability representation in this book as well. There’s a lot to unpack in this story due to its length, but it’s an enjoyable read. This book can be read as a standalone, but I would recommend reading it after the first book in the series.
Clementine (AKA Lemon) is a chemist and a former human that has no idea how he was turned into a vampire three months ago. Clementine works at Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceuticals, a lab which experiments on vampires. He wants to keep his transformation to a vampire a secret for as long as possible. No longer able to access the bagged blood supply at his job’s blood bank, Clementine needs to find a different source. Enter Justin.
Justin is a (mostly) human that protects vampires against hunters in his Ala Santa neighborhood. He also has chronic pain between his shoulder blades. The pair meet one night as Clementine tries to feed from Justin and it quickly becomes apparent that Clementine doesn’t know how to vampire. Justin offers to sell his blood to Clementine as well as share his knowledge of vampires with him, since Clementine could really use it. As the pair continue to hang out, their relationship shifts from a professional one to a personal one and they begin to develop feelings for one another.
Clementine falls on the ace spectrum. He comes to terms with his grayasexual and demigrayromantic status over the course of his relationship with Justin. I enjoyed the references to fan fiction and Star Trek. Justin is attracted to Clementine pretty quickly. He tries to resist those feelings at first. So watching and waiting as these two slowly fall for one another was delicious torture. When they finally get together, it’s definitely steamy!
There’s some heavy topics in this book and a gamut of emotions. That said, both MCs reach their HEA by the end. There’s a teaser for the third book at the end of this one. I’m interested to see Andres’s story and what happens with Vitalis-Barron in future.
This is my honest review for the ARC I received.
This is the second book in the Guides for Dating Vampires series. Once again D.N. Bryn gives us a great ace-rep story with a fantastic slow burn paranormal romance. I really appreciated the disability representation in this book as well. There’s a lot to unpack in this story due to its length, but it’s an enjoyable read. This book can be read as a standalone, but I would recommend reading it after the first book in the series.
Clementine (AKA Lemon) is a chemist and a former human that has no idea how he was turned into a vampire three months ago. Clementine works at Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceuticals, a lab which experiments on vampires. He wants to keep his transformation to a vampire a secret for as long as possible. No longer able to access the bagged blood supply at his job’s blood bank, Clementine needs to find a different source. Enter Justin.
Justin is a (mostly) human that protects vampires against hunters in his Ala Santa neighborhood. He also has chronic pain between his shoulder blades. The pair meet one night as Clementine tries to feed from Justin and it quickly becomes apparent that Clementine doesn’t know how to vampire. Justin offers to sell his blood to Clementine as well as share his knowledge of vampires with him, since Clementine could really use it. As the pair continue to hang out, their relationship shifts from a professional one to a personal one and they begin to develop feelings for one another.
Clementine falls on the ace spectrum. He comes to terms with his grayasexual and demigrayromantic status over the course of his relationship with Justin. I enjoyed the references to fan fiction and Star Trek. Justin is attracted to Clementine pretty quickly. He tries to resist those feelings at first. So watching and waiting as these two slowly fall for one another was delicious torture. When they finally get together, it’s definitely steamy!
There’s some heavy topics in this book and a gamut of emotions. That said, both MCs reach their HEA by the end. There’s a teaser for the third book at the end of this one. I’m interested to see Andres’s story and what happens with Vitalis-Barron in future.