I am a major vampire girlie starting way back in my middle school and junior high days when I'd rush home to watch Buffy and Angel, which this author is a huge fan of as well and even based many of the characters off of characters from the show, such as Spike, Cordelia, and, of course, Buffy. I should have enjoyed this book and story more based on this aspect alone, but for whatever reason this book had a disconnect and made this just an okay read instead of a great one for me.

Also, I was so intrigued by the main premise! Who wouldn't want to be dropped into their favorite book, meet all their favorite characters, and become the leading role in their favorite fantasy world??! Unfortunately, there was just something missing for me to be totally wrapped up in this story and I can't quite put my finger on why that is exactly. I think it was multiple small things that lead to the overall book just not quite capturing me. I didn't have a strong urge to keep reading or that hard to put down feeling I was hoping for. I think partly, because Tess and Callum's relationship felt a little too "instalove" for me. There wasn't enough angst or build up that I crave. If I fell more in love with them and their relationship that likely would have helped!

All in all, it was just an okay read for me that had some redeemable qualities, but for the most part, will be forgettable.

**Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me an advanced copy of this book and in return I am submitting my unbiased and voluntary review and opinion. I am posting this review to my Goodreads account immediately and will post it to my Amazon & Instagram accounts upon publication.

Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London was a fun, interesting and entertaining story.
The premise is cute, fun and I totally enjoyed the heck out of this one.
A captivating and humorous slow burn, LGBTQ+ Rep, vampire fandom romance.
Any fan of vampires, romance and spooky lovers will enjoy this book tremendously.
I for one devoured it and thought it was super cute!

Thank You NetGalley and Random House | Dial Press Trade for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

Obsessed. I LOVED One to Watch and had the same reading experience with this - it was fun, it was empowering, i couldnt put it down. As someone who has spent a lot of time in fandom spaces, I loved this little nod to that world. And the mixed-media format was really intriguing and executed well. A very fun vampire read for those who aren't into full horror but want to have fun with the season!

If you were a vampire obsessed tween (or young adult) like myself and always wondered what it would be like to be thrown headfirst into the world of your favorite vamps this this is the perfect book to fulfill those dreams. Tess and her bestie Joni built their friendship on free grad school food and a love for their favorite novel, Blood Feud. After Tess has to drop out of school and leave her favorite person, the novels remain her obsession and comfort. Until one day after trying to reconnect with Joni, and things not going to plan, she is approached by one of the characters from said book but her costume looks a little too...real. What follows is a chaotic revealing of another world that Tess is now apart of saving, when she gets tuck her ex-bestie ends up apart of the rescue as well. Both women develop trust with the characters they use to read about but now things are getting real and love is in the air. Great twists and turns along the way made this a fun read with the urban fantasy shenanigans that keep the chaos and story moving forward.

(TW: Discussions of SA) Our dear sweet Tess left her PhD program due to a horrible experience with a fellow student so please check your trigger warnings and take care of your self.

Loved this!

So happy to finally be reading something from Kate again! Other than pacing issues I feel like this is the perfect read for spooky season, for nerds, for people needing something positive to read!

The book incorporates different forms of media in the world allowing you to glimpse the scripts and passages from the book that has drawn the characters in and is reflected in the world around them. You discover that there are people who believe the book could be true and speculate about it in online forums early in the novel. The tension between the characters was introduced at the end of the prologue, creating a hook that kept me intrigued as the world was developed.

Kate is absolutely an auto buy author for me now! Loved One To Watch and even tho this is different it does not disappoint! Definitely worth sinking your teeth into! 😆

I don’t know how to review this book. Part of me found it popcorn fun, but another part found it super young and insta lovey. Then throw in the super dark character trauma (check the cws!) and I’m so confused on my thoughts.

Fang Fiction features Tess, a PHD candidate and devoted fan of Blood Feud, a vampire series. Through a series of events, she learns that the Blood Feud characters are real and needs to travel to the dimension they’ve been locked away in. There, she meets Callum, the bad boy vampire of the series and discovers not everything is true to the book.

This was a fun premise, and felt like an homage to fan fiction stories. I love fan fiction, which is why I requested this as an ARC. The beats of a fan fiction were all present, the AU “they exist in the real world” and the Mary Sue of inserting yourself in your favourite story. I found these, as a nod to the fan fiction world, really cute.

The actual story was a little bit hard to get into. The transcripts of podcasts and buzz feed quizzes were just a little much for me. I liked the first one or two, to get us into the fandom, but then they kept happening when the story was what I wanted. The current pop culture references were also extreme and I think this will very much date the book.

The romance was fine, it felt very instalovey, which would hold true to fan fiction norms, I think. I just wanted more.

Overall, fun and festive for witchy\vampire season.

As a longtime vampire lover, I was so excited for the concept of this novel. What if your favorite vampires from your favorite fantasy series were real? Overall, this book was campy and fun and I enjoyed a lot of aspects of it, including the friendship between Tess and Joni and all of the side characters. The plot development, POVs, and characterization was a bit all over the place, and it was definitely too long. Overall, a fun time!

Thank you to Random House Publishing and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for providing the ARC.

A Vampire love affair based on the main male character of your favorite paranormal book series? Sign me up.

I am not normally a fan of instalove stories, but I was mostly okay with it here, just because I loved the ridiculousness of this book. Tess and Callum are amazing together and I really loved the world building of this book. The pop culture shout outs were a fun touch and something I appreciated at a Buffy fan.

If you were watching vampire shows in the late 90s and the early 2000s, this is the book for you

Thank you to Random House Publishing Group and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review!

The AO3 fans are going to love this, vampires and instalove! I personally didn't care for the narration style or pacing, and was invested in Joni and Octavia’s relationship over Tess and Callum's. I'd be interested to read more by Kate later on!

I read the author's debut novel so I was curious what she would do for a followup. I am a sucker for vampires so was hooked immediately by that. I liked the different writing styles she used. Octavia and Joni were a fun couple. Did not pick up on the Cordelia right away but got it when mentioned. Enjoyed the Buffy and other TV icon shout outs. Some may feel it was campy but as a Buffy fan I loved it. Good reveal on who is the author. Also liked the world building.

Unfortunately this story was hard to get into because of the R scene. There was too much going on and it didn’t really hit or catch me. I loved the author’s previous book. However, I was hoping for a fun vampire theme one here and it let me down. Cute cover though and overall cute concept. Execution was lacking.

DNF as this book was very much not for me. I did not like that the plot completely hinged around the main character being drugged and raped, then abruptly abandoning her entire life because of it. Maybe there will be other out there who jive with this premise, but I certainly did not.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to be an early reader. All thoughts are my own.

Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Why I Chose it: I loved her last novel, One to Watch.

Y’all, I might be in my vampire era. Never really classified myself as a vampire fan, but now here we are, two vampire novels where I enjoyed the characters.

This one had a unique premise and still felt nostalgic. This was written for all of us readers who would love for our favorite book worlds to be real. This premise paired with a healing character journey worked for me. I found the pacing too slow in the middle, and maybe the side quests could’ve been reduced a bit, but I understood why they were there.

Fun characters, several love stories, and a lot of sarcasm, this was a fun read for spooky season.

If you enjoy Twilight, vampire crushes, and magical worlds coming to life, this will be a fun read for you

Very campy and heavy on the insta love. While Tess and Callum had alot of fun together in this romcom, it didn't really hit for me the way I thought it would. The book excerpts were probably the best part. Although the whole thing felt very cheesy

When I saw the blurb for this book I knew I wanted to read it. I love paranormal romance books like these, it’s the ones that you are laughing or smiling all the time, the writing style and plot is so unique, and has you hooked from start to finish. While a lot of books can’t pull off popular culture in them, this one strives with it, each TV reference, podcast, Tumblr post, and the actual chapters of the book in the book was so fun.

This is a book for any reader who loved vampire tv shows or books in the early 2000s, it’s for the pop culture lovers, those who are in fandoms and live or die for fictional characters and it was awesome.

Due to the nature of the book and the spoilers, I’ll just say I’ve never read a dual romance book where there is two main love stories. It was so fun reading Joni’s love story and the slow pace with her love interest, compared to the fast, deep love that Tess experiences. This might be my first novel by this author, but it definitely won’t be my last!

I had a great time with this! In many ways it felt like a nod to all the fanfiction girlies and boy was I one (still am)! There are a lot of POV changes and mixed media usage in this book - if that is hard for you to follow be aware that an audio version may better suit you. The premise is that a much beloved vampire novel series may be based in fact and a couple of mega fans get dropped smack in the middle of the rivalry between two rival vampire clans. It is pure fantasy escapism. I would love to see Kate Stayman-London explore more of the world she's created here. There is spice, but it is not super explicit.

One important note, this is not a straightforward rom-com. While there are certainly moments of levity, a major plot point of this story is the main character, Tess, working through her sexual assault at the hands of a fellow grad student. Some aspects of her reasoning for disappearing from her life were hard for me to understand, but I also know I am lucky not to have a frame of reference for her situation. Overall, a terrific read; I need to pick up Stayman-London's debut now!

Eeek - this should have been something I loved and it simply wasnt. The writing was quite immature and not in a fun campy way. Also, there were darker topics discussed that I felt like could have been handled better.

Thank you netgalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.