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Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side (Hardback)
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Short Description for Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark SideMarrying 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 fianc.
Full description- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
- Published: 01 February 2009
- Format: Hardback 354 pages
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- Categories: Fiction | Science Fiction | Relationships
- ISBN 13: 9780152063849 ISBN 10: 0152063846
- Sales rank: 144,423
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Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Darkside by Beth Fantaskey
Also reviewed on my blog, the Vintage Bookworm. (http://www.vintagebookworm.blogspot.com) This is an old review. Read and wrote this in April 2009.
First off: This wasn't what I was expecting when I first learned about the novel. At all. I mean, it sounded really, really good. But I thought it would be a little like all the other vampire books I'd read. I hate getting into a novel like that, because I love vampires and I love reading about them. So I was a bit worried when I first got this book.
But I was wrong! Oh, so wrong!
I never expected to love it as much as I did. This quickly made it to my number one favorite book before I was even done with it. (Sharing spots with other books, of course!)
Fantaskey recreated the genre and made it her own. Which is extremely hard to do nowadays with the amount of Young Adult novels that are out in the book world. Plus the percentage of them that include vampires in them.
I can't remember how many times I cried while reading Jessica's Guide. And how many times I got completely ticked off with Lucius. At first I thought I was going to hate him throughout the book, but a little ways in I started to fall in love with him just as Jess was.
At first while I was reading, I thought things were moving a bit too fast. Too many things were happening and it was just the first chapter. But now that I'm done with it, I feel that if those things didn't happen as fast as they did, all the other events wouldn't have played out as great as they did.
I also loved how Fantaskey threw in some things from Lucius' perspective. It added to the story and really let you get to know him more, and how his mind worked.
I really liked Jess, too. She was an amazing protagonist. All her feelings were geniune and real and I felt I really got to know her throughout the novel. I feel as though she's one of my best friends. Which I love those feelings when reading a book.
I felt all the minor characters really added to the story too. They were all really interesting and I loved Jess' best friend, Mindy.
Fantaskey's style of writing was really great, as well. It all really flowed well and drew you in. I always felt as though I were right there, experiencing all the events that were happening throughout the novel.
Overall, it was a GREAT read. I will definitely be reading this again in the future. It's one of those novels where you have to reread them at least once or twice every year.
The end was very good! by Amanda

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