Synopsis
A paranormal Dumplin’ for adults, When Life Gives You Vampires is part a journey of body positivity, part a story about learning how to accept love at face value, and part a hysterical romcom told through a paranormal lens.
Twenty-five year old Lily Baines is used to waking up hungover, overweight, and underemployed. Waking up with fangs? Not so much. But when it turns out a little light necking has more serious consequences than she ever imagined, Lily’s determined to get to the bottom of it.
Tristan hadn’t meant to turn Lily—it’s against vampire law—but now that she’s here, they need to team up to save their hides. They strike a truce, fending off other vampires, Lily’s work-rival-turned-slayer, and her mother’s tone-deaf romance and fitness advice—all while Lily faces down her insecurities about the fact that she lives in a diet-obsessed world with a body that will never age, never die, and never change. Can she learn to love the (plus size) woman she’ll be forever more?
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Review
When Life Gives You Vampires was just an okay read for me.
It was entertaining, but it tried to do too much and it sort of failed on all fronts. I was not fond of Lily very much, and I have to say I have no clue what Tristan saw in her. I thought I would like her being a fat main character, and while I sympathized with her, especially about the mother thing, Lily made such a big deal about it the whole time it got annoying.
I honestly didn’t get the story at all Lily wasn’t great, and Tristain wasn’t super great either. Both of them seemed pretty one-dimensional, and I did not really care about what happened with them.
The build-up of Gideon was not great; I wanted more payoff than I got. So while I’m not surprised it ended up less of a big deal, I was disappointed. In fact, I was pretty disappointed in this whole book.
