Read This Book If…you love quirky characters and zany situations!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

Genre: paranormal romance
Series: My Vampires # 2
Spice Level: 3/5🌶, 1-2 explicit scenes
Setting: Chicago
POV: dual, 1st person, past tense
Tropes: fake dating, forced proximity

My Thoughts:

I was so excited to get Reginald’s book after the first in this series and I was not disappointed! This author does quirky characters SO well and I fell in love with Amelia quickly.

I especially adored how she literally missed him being a vampire because he’s the first person in her life to take such good care of her. I love fake dating and a snowed-in-together moment, so this book hit all the right notes.

This read is a bit zany, but it made me laugh out loud several times and is absolutely perfect for a quick Spooky Season read!

Thank you to the publisher for my advance copy!

MY VAMPIRE PLUS-ONE by @jennalevinewrites is a whole new flavor, and damn enjoyable. There's a little bit of a formula the books fit into, but the characters and what make them endearing is so different. I read this in a day, perfect for a vacation.

Full review to come.

This was one of the best fake dating romance books I read in a long long time! I haven't read the first book, but now I'm sure I will, cause this was just too much fun. I loved everything: the opposites attract kind of romance, the humour, and the plot was engaging as as well.

This book book might actually make Jenna Levine an insta-buy author for me now!

Thank you to NetGalley, Berkley Publishing Group, and PRH Audio for providing me with this book for free in exchange for my review!. @prhaudio #PRHAudio #PRHAudioInfluencer
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This book was adorable! I have only recently started to dip my toes in the "paranormal romance" genre because I don't necessarily like scary or gory content. With that being said, this book does lean more romantic than paranormal in my opinion and it was not scary at all. So if you are like me and don't like scary content, but are looking for a fun book this upcoming spooky season, I definitely recommend this book. This book has a lot of heart to it, and also a lot of humor. There were several parts of the book where I laughed out loud, and I can't say I do that for many books.

I should also clarify that while this book can be read as a standalone novel, this book is set in the same universe as My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine. and there are some characters from that book that appear in this book as well.
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On the audiobook side of things, the book is narrated by Helen Laser and Daniel Henning. Helen is an audiobook narrator that I stumbled upon earlier this year and she has since become one of my favorite voices to listen to (right up there with Julia Whelan, Brittany Presley, and January Lavoy). Daniel was not someone I had listened to narrate an audiobook before, but now that I have listened to one book narrated by him, I think I would enjoy listening to more books by Daniel. His voice was very charming in my opinion.

I am very much looking forward to Jenna Levine's next book and I am excited to see if it will be another vampire story or perhaps something completely different. She is going on my "authors to watch" list!

This book is set to be released on September 17th, 2024. Pick it up at your favorite local retailer, I highly doubt that you will be disappointed.


Many Thanks again to NetGalley, Berkley, and Penguin Random House Audio for providing me with this book in exchange for my honest review.

I loved continuing this series! A great follow up to my roommate is a vampire. A perfect read for someone looking for a funny fake dating romance. Reginald was such an interesting character to see crack open for Amelia. I loved the easter eggs and character updates from book one as well! The banter and humor in this books is great! also the main fake dating plot while also throwing in sub tropes like one bed made me giggle! I really hope we have another book in this series!

Cute, cozy paranormal romcom

This book made me nostalgic for that old Hugh Jackman movie with Meg Ryan. Do you know which one I’m thinking of?? Anyways - that sense of magic and wonder with a dash of early 2000s romcom energy… that is this book

So perfect for this transition to fall and all things magical/spooky.

My Vampire Plus-One is a sweet and charming rom-com following Amelia, an accountant, who is tired of having to explain her lack of a boyfriend to her meddling family, and Reggie, an ancient vampire on the run from a vigilante group. When the two bump into each other on the street and then later at a cafe, Amelia comes up with the brilliant idea to bring Reggie as her fake boyfriend to an upcoming family wedding. This was such a fun and quirky read! The fake dating was so well done and I loved how it added to the slow burn of their romance. Reggie was such a chaotic and endearing character, the lengths he went to for Amelia were so sweet. The vampire was just completely smitten and I thought it was so cute how he wrote about her in his journal. The epistolary aspects were so humorous and I loved that we got to see multiple outside perspectives through them. This would make for a great fall read and I cannot wait for the next book in this lighthearted series!

Read if you like:
🦇Quirky Characters🦇
🦇Bullet Journaling🦇
🦇Slow Burn🦇
🦇Vampire x Human🦇
🦇Dual POV🦇
🦇Fake Dating🦇
🦇Forced Proximity🦇
🦇Questionable Fashion🦇
🦇Opposites Attract🦇
🦇Open Door Steam🦇

My Vampire Plus One by Jenna Levine is a spooktacular fake dating romcom where an accountant needs to find a date for a wedding to get her family off her back & maybe accidentally falls for a vampire in the process. It is an easy escapism read that is funny, fast & provides bloody good vibes for fall.

This is book #2 in the My Vampires series. It could easily be read as a standalone but I really enjoyed book #1, My Roommate Is a Vampire, so I do recommend both!

My Vampire Plus One is great for fans of…
❤️ Paranormal Romcom
❤️ Vampires
❤️ Fake Dating

This book is charmingly funny & I think the author does it in a very clever way. The story is full of chaos & adventure but if you are just down for the roller coaster, it is quite the fun ride. I did appreciate the realistic way in which the heroine reacted to the idea of the existence of vampires. I was ecstatic to hear that Reginald got his own story.
It was a treat seeing the grumpy loner of a vampire thaw & fall for our lovely delight of a heroine.

There are quite a few cameos from the first book, which was a delight to have them in this story & get an update on them!

If you are looking for a fangtastic sweet & a little spicy vampire romcom with a dash of mysterious intrigue, then I recommend My Vampire Plus One!

Massive thanks to NetGalley & Berkley Publishing for the gifted copy, which I voluntarily read & reviewed.

I will also post this to social media & Amazon during release week & add links once I do.

🧛My Vampire Plus-One🧛

Rating:⭐⭐⭐.5
Spice: 🌶️.5

Tropes:
📃Fake dating
🩸One Bed
📃Rom-com
🩸Quirky characters
📃Sunshine MMC
🩸Slow Burn

This book had me giggling - I was in a bit of a slump and was looking for a cute and fun read to get me out of it and this did the trick. I really liked our MMC Reggie as a character because he was so quirky, and hilarious and just strange... that he felt like a genuinely unique character that I hadn't read about before, so I found that pretty refreshing! The whole premise of the plot is a little funny, but this isn't a book to be taken seriously and I had a good time just going along for the ride. Our FMC was nothing to write home about, but overall this book was just what I was looking for! This book should be out Sept. 17 and it's a fun quick read you can sink your teeth into (haha)!

Thank you to @netgalley, @berkleypub and @jennalevinewrites for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Jenna Levine gives us a unique twist on vampires in this quirky sequel to My Roommate is a Vampire.

My Vampire Plus-One is a delightful story that begins with fake dating and takes readers on a wild ride of intrigue, secrets, and loads of fun!

Reggie is a prankster vampire with a wicked sense of humor. He’s absolutely perfect for straight-laced workaholic Amelia. Amelia is a logical accountant, but after a chance meeting with Reggie, she can’t get the handsome blond out of her mind. When the line between fake dating and passion is crossed… ooo fire!

The storyline is interesting, the characters are entertaining, and the romance is sizzling!

I’m looking forward to more books from Jenna’s fascinating storyworld.

Taxes and vampires…this was cute but unfortunately it just wasn’t for me. The story is fun and easy for Halloween season and if you like paranormal rom-coms you should still give it a try because other rom-com readers have enjoyed it. I just don’t think I’m the right audience for this one, it was too silly and predictable. I didn’t care for either character or their love story.

I went into this book a bit blind, since I didn't read the first book in the series. I probably would have enjoyed it a bit more if I had understood the humor of the vampires and how different their personalities are from normal vampires in rom-coms. I enjoyed the story overall, but Reginald was a bit annoying at some points. It was probably all the puns and his awful fashion sense that I could not wrap my head around. I liked Amelia, but the way she just believed that Reggie was joking about being a vampire made me think she wasn't all that smart. I also have to say that I really didn't find the secondary plot revolving around Reggie very interesting. It all kind of fell flat for me, unfortunately.

Amelia Collins is a successful CPA, late for dinner with her family when she runs into Reginald Cleeves on the streets of Chicago. (Yes, the adorable quirky character from My Roommate is a Vampire has his own book now.) Since he's still on her mind when she finally makes it to dinner, she tells her family she has a date for her cousin's wedding and all the subsequent events that lead up to it. Luckily, she runs into Reginald (Reggie) again and he agrees to help Amelia with her scheme of fake-dating.
This was funny and spicy and set in both Reggie and Amelia's POVs.

*Special thanks to NetGalley and Berkley for this e-arc.*

I absolutely adored My Roommate Is A Vampire so I knew I had to read this one... and I was not disappointed!

4 stars | 1/5 spice

I really enjoyed Amelia and Reggies fake dating that turned to something real. The vampires in these books are always so quirky and entertaining that you won't want to set this one down! This is definitely a slow burn just like the last one by Levine.

Reggie was so eccentric and I loved it! He wasn't quite as funny as Fredrick was (he had me cackling at his antics). But I loved the vulnerability he shared with Amelia and how he quickly fell for her. I also loved how they balanced each other out and gave each other exactly what they needed.

The spice was ok? I would have loved for more spice - but that's just me. The tension between them could definitely be felt through the pages as you are reading.

Overall, a 4-star read for me. This will make the PERFECT fall read with a little bit of paranormal elements plus a cozy love story. If you were a fan of My Roommate is a Vampire then you will also adore this one! The epilogue was perfect and I loved the updates we got to see with Cassie and Fredrick. I am secretly hoping for an update of some sort on Reggie and Amelia with the next book if there is one.

For Fans of:
- Vampires
- Slow Burn
- Fake Dating
- Quirky Characters
- Interconnected Romances that can be read as Standalones

Big Thanks to Jenna Levine, Berkley and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinions!

For those who have My Roommate is a Vampire, I think we can all agree that we were waiting for Reginald’s book. He is the side character whose book I was just dying to read and Jenna Levine made sure to deliver with this one. We’re first introduced to Amelia Collins, an accountant who is in the midst of tax season and frankly having a stressful time with a big client.

Things get even worse for her when she gets run into by a guy who Amelia immediately thinks is odd. Of course, it’s Reginald but she doesn’t have much time to think before going to family dinner. To try to get her family off her back, she says that she has a boyfriend and can’t seem to get Reginald off her mind.

The next day, she ends up seeing Reginald again, resulting in the two talking and her asking him to be her “plus-one” at her cousin’s wedding. From there, we’re watching the romance between these two blossom and it’s just so fun because these two embody the opposites-attract trope in the best way.

Jenna Levine did an absolutely amazing job, making the romance swoony while also giving us plenty of hilarious moments. I couldn’t wait to see what kind of outfits Reginald would wear or what he would say to Amelia’s father. There was also some tension and drama as Amelia and Reginald have a pretty bit of misunderstanding and watching how it all unfolds is just so delightful.

The other thing I loved was how things were a bit open-ended at the end of the book, meaning that we might get another book in the series. While it’s unclear if Jenna Levine has plans to give that character a book, I am dying for it.

This was a good time but much like the first one I feel like missed the mark for me?? So I’m moving on. Which is not to say it’s not written well, cause it is I just don’t think I love this authors writing style?

I love fake dating! But I didn’t feel any tension?? Any connection between the two of them?

Thanks to Berkley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

dnf @ 45%

I really enjoyed this! I loved the first book and was very excited about this release. It's a perfect blend of funny, charming and steamy. I really enjoyed the fake dating trope and who doesn't love a vampire?? 10/10 will be staff picking it when it comes out in Oct!

I think I've found my new favorite subgenre of paranormal romance: the paranormal ROMCOM. Please don't make me read a deep exploration of the inevitability of mortality with mopey vampires who feel all conflicted about turning their human mates. I'd much rather read about a bullet journaling himbo vampire who thinks accountants are sexy. This book was soooo funny! I laughed out loud at Reggie's bullet journal Discord shenanigans, his radical honesty about his vampiric abilities, and the fact that he was just absolutely gone for Amelia from he moment he runs into her in the street. (I was also into the subtle "fated mates" aspect when it turns out in an UTTER COINCIDENCE that Amelia's brother is best friends with Reggie's vampire BFF's fiancee. It's funny in the story and it's funny when you think about it later.)

I also love the way Jenna Levine treats these "all-powerful" immortal vampire plots. There's no staking or exploding in the sunlight, there are no vampire hunters or really any vampire fights at all, just some well-executed application of the tax code. This was really funny and fun, y'all.

This objective review is based on a complimentary copy of the novel.

I don’t care how unrealistic, silly, or predictable a vampire love story is - I will eat it up every time. I think I liked this book even more than the first one. Which is something I can never say! When I wasn’t reading it, I was thinking about reading it. It was very much a slow burn, but definitely worth the wait.

I loved Reginald!! He was so quirky, charming, and funny.
This book had me smiling and laughing out loud throughout. I also loved how the author incorporated journal entries & text messages because for me, that always adds another layer of excitement to the story. My only complaint is that the ending felt a little abrupt. There was this whole build up to the cousin’s wedding only for it to be included in a very small portion at the very end of the book. I was really hoping we would have gotten more of Reginald & Amelia as they dove deeper into their relationship because I loved them as a couple.

Overall, this was such an easy, funny, and light hearted read with unique characters that I didn’t want to end. Can’t wait to see what this author has in store for the future.

Thank you to NetGalley & Berkley Publishing for my eARC copy of this book!

<b>His eyes, when they met mine, were so intense I had to look away. "But for you, I would brave a blizzard just to see you smile."</b>

sparkly and magnificent. just like edward cullen.

✨THINGS AND STUFF✨
-dual pov
-friend, enemy, “frenemy”
-vampire x human
-he’s a twihard
-fake dating
-tax season
-emails & text messages & journal excerpts
-forced proximity: snowed in
-#IsThisAKissingBook: open door. "I've got this," he assured me. Without another word he grabbed my hand that was closest to him and pressed a lingering kiss to my palm.”

thank you berkley romance for the free book!