Overall entertaining, but the whole "I'm so smart because I'm training to be a librarian" thing got old SUPER quick. The banter saved this book. Except for the librarian parts (I can't believe I'm saying that), I actually really enjoyed Amber as a character. Will probably end up picking up the rest of the series to see where she ends up.

This was a super fun, action-packed read. The writing really helped keep the fast pace of the book. And while there’s a lot of action, there’s also a strong plot. I enjoyed it so much I jumped right into the second in the series.

This was a fun, quick fantasy read. Amber is a vampire that only eats bad guys but also believes she's at the top of the food chain. There were some very interesting parts and other parts just didn't excite me much. The story was good, but I don't think I'll be reading the rest of this series.

Thank you, NetGalley and Orca books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a weird one that I actually enjoyed.
I feel like this book was all over the place with the plot, the characters and the whole idea of vampires in general and yet I read this in one sitting and enjoyed my time.
I liked Amber as a character even though I didn't understand her actions for the most part. Nor did I understand the vampires which yes, admiteddly, were unique and unusual but mainly confusing.
I also don't really know what the plot is of this book. There was quiete a lot of back and forth with the League and nothing much happened besides Amber sucking people dry.
I don't it was odd but overall a pleasant read.

This was a pretty straight forward read. The plot moved quickly so I found there wasn’t too much time to get invested in the characters. For a young adult novel it makes sense, as the author needs to keep the young reader’s attention, but I would’ve liked to have had more insight into the main character as well as the reoccurring side characters she interacted with.

As quickly as the plot moved I didn’t find much substance until the second half of the book. It was at this point the reader is given more information about the League and invited to participate in the story. The story picked up and gained excitement which had me staying and reading instead of doing my Saturday morning errands.

Overall I did find Amber Fang an enjoyable quick read, and I may take a look at the next 2 books in the series.

*I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

This book falls into the category of stories that sounded great until they weren’t. The beginning is done well: Amber is tracked down and offered a confusing job from a mysterious organization. Everything goes downhill from there. Her only contact from the organization is confusing; she trusts him a whole lot, yet they have basically no relationship at all. Half the time, he’s mysteriously busy and can’t talk to her, and the other half he betrays her. Not really sure why Amber has convinced herself that he’s on her side. The organization itself is not explained at all; all we know is that they are really powerful. Amber walks into several situations that are questionable at best, and is quick to forgive the people that keep manipulating her over and over again. For a calculating killer, she sure makes a lot of bad decisions.
The vampire aspect of this story is well-done, it’s the hired assassin part that makes little to no sense. Amber knows her vampire biology, she knows how and when to kill. By willingly placing herself under humans, she suffers needlessly, and doesn’t really kill all those many bad guys.
And the ending really pushed my buttons. After all she’s been put through, Amber still tries to find a peaceful way out, and still doesn’t clearly put her foot down… What seemed like a sarcastic, witty look at vampires in the modern day turned into another muddled adventure story that tried to keep the reader interested with flashy fight scenes. This book could have been better if it hadn’t tried to be so special. If it had slipped into some familiar Men-in-Black type spy/assassin storylines, it would have been much more enjoyable.
This book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

The thought of a vampire librarian – with a Dexter twist – was enough to make me want to read this book, despite the somewhat stilted blurb. Unfortunately, while parts of it worked, it didn’t work well as a standalone novel for me.

“I won’t have someone else pick my food for me.”
“Food. Is that how you classify us?”
“Yes.”
“Do you think that’s a way of shutting yourself off from your connection to humans?”
“I have no connection to humans other than consumption. Oh, and I read their books and watch their movies.”


Raised by her mother to eat “ethically” – only dining on remorseless criminals – Amber’s life revolves around completing her library sciences degree and finding a new criminal every thirty days. When a hunt goes wrong and she’s forced to move on – again – she’s intrigued when she encounters Dermot, a man who says he represents a secretive group called the League, and who want to hire her as their own personal vampire assassin. Intrigued by the thought of getting to travel the world while having her food sourced for her, she agrees to a trial mission. Things, though, are not quite what they seem, and soon Amber may wish she’d never met Dermot at all…

“Mom said never to fall in love with my food, but she didn’t say anything about falling in love with their books.”


First off, what originally drew me to the book – the vampire librarian bit – was my favorite part. I liked reading about Amber’s classes and her love of books and the occasional bit of librarian nerd humor. The rest of it was a bit of a mixed bag. I vacillated between finding Amber annoying and sympathetic. Her entire life revolved around her mother’s rules, with no explanation as to why they were so important. After her mother’s disappearance, Amber was left to fend for herself, seemingly the only vampire in a world full of humans, but she still followed her rules. I felt for Amber, because it did seem like she was trying to do the best she could – surviving – while obviously handicapped by her mother choosing to withhold crucial information from her. It’s no surprise that the instant a friendly face, with superhuman strength and speed, popped into her life, she took a chance on the adventure. What I had a harder time understanding was her near-instant attraction and unfounded trust in Dermot, her League handler. After a life with no close relationships with anyone besides her mother, she practically imprints on him, and rather than enjoying their snarky partnership, I just sort of found it sad and exploitative. Frankly, I found a lot of the League’s actions incomprehensible or just plain criminal (why do the exact things guaranteed to break Amber’s trust?).

In addition to my problems with the plot, I found the writing style very choppy. It’s from Amber’s first-person POV, and there were a lot of short “I did this. Then I did that”-style sentences. It worked well for the action sequences, but not so much for the rest. The book also ended too abruptly for me. While I suppose, in terms of events, it made sense to end the book where it did, I didn’t feel like we had any sort of closure on any of the questions raised. While I understand wanting to reserve things for the rest of the series, the ending left me more frustrated than eager to read the next book.

This sounds like I completely hated the book, but I did find the premise intriguing and I thought the action scenes were well-done. I’m just not much of a fan of books where the main character is kept continuously in the dark and seemingly nothing is explained or even hinted at to the reader. Overall, not a book for me, and I won’t be continuing with the series.

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I was immensely entertained by this short, fast-paced story of a vampire with a moral code, that sort of reminded me of Cracked. Amber Fang aims to be a librarian, loves the simple life of hunting monthly, and is a bit over tracking down new victims for every feeding cycle. Living a mostly nomadic life, her path intersects with a mysterious organization that is interested in hiring her for some difficult-to-get-to targets. However, as she gets further involved, she learns more about the secrecy (or lack thereof) of vampires in the human world, as well as the existence of others of her kind.

As I said before, this one is a short and fast read. The story is pretty straightforward, and introduces us to Amber and the organization called the League, which she is introduced to by Dermot, one of their agents. Her targets are high-level, and for the first time, she actually has trouble with hunts. But there may also be a target on her back, and allying with the League seems like the safest bet, until it isn't. The ending of the book felt a bit confusing as to the canon, but it is more a setting up for the next books than a proper conclusion. Nevertheless, it is an entertaining book with a humorous protagonist, and I look forward to reading more in this series.

A vampire book that’ll have you believing in the vampire genre all over again!

When I think of a librarian, I think of a quiet book nerd who enjoys helping others figure out the wonders of the written word. What I don’t think of is a vampire with the mission of ridding the world of depraved murderers one meal at a time. Amber Fang, fits both categories and she fits them well; she’s a young vampire used to running from one town to the next for fear of discovery as it’s all her mother(whose missing) had taught her. We meet her for the first time in Seattle where she has a run in with a man who sets her spidey senses tingling, leading her to believe that all was not right with this meal. She escapes narrowly and flees to Canada where she picks up her studies in library science and all seems to have gone back to normal until she is cornered by a man by the name of Dermot who suspiciously offers her a position in the “League” as their paid assassin (paid by meal), though hesitant at first, she ends up joining and this organization leads her into a world of near death experiences, the meeting of her father (who was also captured) who calls her a human sympathizer and her own incarceration at the hands of this “do-gooder” organization.

Suspiciously when she has enough of them and walks out, they let her go to return to her normal life but OBVIOUSLY things don’t work like that in creepy secret government organizations so I cannot wait to find out the fate of Amber Fang in the next installment.

Even though this was a really short read, it was definitely worth the read and it kept me entertained for the duration of the book.

This was a neat and unique vampire story. While I did find Amber to be too feminist her character wasn't bad. She had some morals and refused to eat humans who were innocent. I found the rules in this book very interesting because I've never seen them in other vampire books. The pacing was pretty fast although it didn't feel rushed. I can't think of anything I explicitly hated in this book aside from the cynical feminist commentary. It was a nice quick read and I hope there'll be a sequel in the future!
Rating: 4 stars
Recommendation: ages 15 and up
FTC DISCLAIMER: I received this book in exchange for an honest review

This was an interesting book. I loved the snarkiness of Amber, she was a vampire with an fascinating idea about what should be done with criminals. I am looking forward to reading the next book. Thank you NetGalley.

Amber is a young conscientious vampire who only feeds on the morally bankrupt killers as her once a month blood need. Slightly inept with her prey, she manages to complete her kills. And in the first chapter, you lost me. Hunted, and lured in to a trap, she is running from her captors all shot up with tranquilizers......and wakes up laying on clean sheets. No captors have her, no explanation how she got there, nothing. A character is introduced to her and then, oops, he's replaced by another with no explanation. Two clandestine organizations, mentions of augmentation in humans, just a big mishmash of dropped information. Multiple questions leveled with no backstory or explanations. The story felt like parts were missing, as it was a short read.I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book for Netgalley.

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I received an arc of this book from Net Galley. The book is written in an extremely straight forward manner. It felt as if the interesting parts were cut out to make the vampire feel nicer. I couldn't gain any interest in the characters and story. Half way through the book, I stopped trying.

Solid 4/5 stars!

I very much enjoyed reading this! When I saw the synopsis, i just new that I had to try and read this. I'm always on the lookout for new vampire books, especially in YA. The synopsis was intriguing and seemed to hold a lot of action and mystery that should be fun to get into. The very first chapter sucked me in -ha sucked- and I was really intrigued in how Amber would go about the situation. I quite enjoyed learning about how vampires work in this world, and I found it refreshing to know that even Amber didn't know all there was to her kind. I appreciated the fast-pace this book had, as it felt there never really was a dull moment once you got to meet a certain character. As soon as things really picked up, the book went by in a flash. The action scenes were quite fun, I loved Amber's sarcasm, the conversations she has with her "partner", and the little twists and turns spread throughout. While I enjoyed it, I wish there was maybe a bit more to flesh out everything between her mother and father. I get that it's the first book, so I can see why things would be left unanswered. That's just me wanting to get to know these other characters, who are important to Amber, a little bit more. Also, I didn't particularly like the final chapter. I definitely understood how and why it happened, but it felt quite sudden. It just, well, ended. Despite this, I'm actually interested to see how book 2 goes. I'll defiitely be picking up the sequel, as I'm really interested to see how things unfold!

ARC provided to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thank you to Orca Book Publishing for this book, and I have to say I was a bit dubious about reading it, but I really enjoyed it, it was a funny light hearted read even though there was a vampire and blood shed.
I found myself disappointed when I reached the end, I will be looking out for book 2 of this series.