Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
by Beth Fantaskey

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.

I had heard mixed reviews of this book, so I was a little apprehensive when I finally broke down and decided to read it. Two of the other YA Librarians I know had loved it, though, which is why I finally did decide to read it.
I'm glad I did because it was a really fun book. Besides the fact that I got to carry around a book that had my name in a funny title, I liked the way that Jessica (Antanasia, Romanian vampire princess!) learns to value herself as she is and helps Lucius to overcome the darker side of his inner nature.
A fun vampire romance in a genre that is currently overrun!!