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Fangs and First Dates: A Yandere Vampire Romance for Men
When your yandere girlfriend has waited a thousand years, 'just friends' isn't an option.
My perfectly average life working night shifts at SaveMart takes an unexpected turn when Carmilla walks in, claiming I'm the reincarnation of her long-lost love from a thousand years ago.
She's already gotten herself hired at my store, moved into my neighborhood, and made it very clear that she'll destroy anyone who tries to come between us.
Now I'm caught between my mundane modern life and her supernatural world of vampire politics, all while trying to convince her not to murder Sarah, my friendly neighbor. She really needs to stop asking me out for coffee before my vampire girlfriend loses what's left of her patience.
Some might call her possessive nature terrifying. I'm starting to think it feels like coming home.
My perfectly average life working night shifts at SaveMart takes an unexpected turn when Carmilla walks in, claiming I'm the reincarnation of her long-lost love from a thousand years ago.
She's already gotten herself hired at my store, moved into my neighborhood, and made it very clear that she'll destroy anyone who tries to come between us.
Now I'm caught between my mundane modern life and her supernatural world of vampire politics, all while trying to convince her not to murder Sarah, my friendly neighbor. She really needs to stop asking me out for coffee before my vampire girlfriend loses what's left of her patience.
Some might call her possessive nature terrifying. I'm starting to think it feels like coming home.
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237 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 22, 2025
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February 15, 2025
For a 200ish page book it really took me awhile to get through. Didn't scratch the itch I look for in a fun romance read. Not terrible but rather forgettable.
January 29, 2025
This was kind of a fun read. Sexy vampires have a lot of potential in romance stories and the premise here was pretty good. There were just a few things that I couldn't let go of that prevented me from fully enjoying the story.
To me, this story's biggest flaw is that instead of allowing the Main Characters to develop their relationship organically, they use the premise that the MMC had a past life which he slowly remembers to allow the bulk of the character development to happen outside the book in the character's past life. It makes the story less interesting because instead of the MMC learning to love his Yandere GF, he just magically remembers that he used to, so no effort needed to be spent writing that relationship development. The ending is also quite weird in that none of the loose ends are actually resolved. The epilogue just dismisses all of the still-existing conflict by literally just running away from it as if immortal beings will never encounter their enemies again in the future.
But mainly, I'm upset with this story because the MMC has a cat, and once the climax begins the cat is abandoned in the MMCs apartment and left for dead with no mention of the cat ever again.
To me, this story's biggest flaw is that instead of allowing the Main Characters to develop their relationship organically, they use the premise that the MMC had a past life which he slowly remembers to allow the bulk of the character development to happen outside the book in the character's past life. It makes the story less interesting because instead of the MMC learning to love his Yandere GF, he just magically remembers that he used to, so no effort needed to be spent writing that relationship development. The ending is also quite weird in that none of the loose ends are actually resolved. The epilogue just dismisses all of the still-existing conflict by literally just running away from it as if immortal beings will never encounter their enemies again in the future.
But mainly, I'm upset with this story because the MMC has a cat, and once the climax begins the cat is abandoned in the MMCs apartment and left for dead with no mention of the cat ever again.
February 25, 2025
If you're looking for a yandere, look elsewhere. The worst this vampire did for the solid 51% of book before I DNF'd out of boredom was break a mug. Breaking a piece of kitchenware out of impulsive anger because a woman is texting your man does not make you a yandere - it makes you a mildly toxic but still completely mundane (outside of the whole vampire thing) love interest. She mentions at one point, via narration, that she killed whole families for trying to separate them in the distant past, but to that I simply quote the golden rule of storytelling: "Show, don't tell."
And the plot was not driven forward by the characters at all. IT drove THEM forward. The story just kind of happened with no ceremony. Event 1 happens, then Event 2 happens, then Event 3 happens, etc., with basically no prompting from the main characters whatsoever. And outside of initial confusion, the MMC has a complete non-reaction to realising he's a reincarnated soul with an ancient vampire girlfriend. It was just too dull to keep going.
I didn't *hate* it, but neither did it hold my interest. Honestly, it's a miracle I read past the halfway mark before stopping. The fact that it's not an especially long book but it still took me a solid two weeks to get that far speaks volumes. 2/5
And the plot was not driven forward by the characters at all. IT drove THEM forward. The story just kind of happened with no ceremony. Event 1 happens, then Event 2 happens, then Event 3 happens, etc., with basically no prompting from the main characters whatsoever. And outside of initial confusion, the MMC has a complete non-reaction to realising he's a reincarnated soul with an ancient vampire girlfriend. It was just too dull to keep going.
I didn't *hate* it, but neither did it hold my interest. Honestly, it's a miracle I read past the halfway mark before stopping. The fact that it's not an especially long book but it still took me a solid two weeks to get that far speaks volumes. 2/5
April 20, 2025
DNF at ~47%.
The book just didn't hold my attention. It's not necessarily a bad book, it just wasn't scratching any itches. Maybe I'll come back to it later. Probably not, but maybe.
I came in expecting the "Past-lives" angle of the book to be much more subtle, and progress much more slowly in the background. I expected the Yandere "omg this woman is creeping into every aspect of my life" to play out differently, and for much more of the book.
Instead, the book very quickly becomes more similar to a "Second-chance romance", where two characters have to fall back in love with each other: this time around just with one of the characters having outright died-and-reincarnated.
Again, this isn't exactly a bad story to tell, but it wasn't appealing to what I came to it for, so I dropped it.
The book just didn't hold my attention. It's not necessarily a bad book, it just wasn't scratching any itches. Maybe I'll come back to it later. Probably not, but maybe.
I came in expecting the "Past-lives" angle of the book to be much more subtle, and progress much more slowly in the background. I expected the Yandere "omg this woman is creeping into every aspect of my life" to play out differently, and for much more of the book.
Instead, the book very quickly becomes more similar to a "Second-chance romance", where two characters have to fall back in love with each other: this time around just with one of the characters having outright died-and-reincarnated.
Again, this isn't exactly a bad story to tell, but it wasn't appealing to what I came to it for, so I dropped it.
January 31, 2025
Yawn. Meh. not worth the time.
A remarkably boring book.
The MC is about as interesting dried paint. The female MC/love interest is about the same. The plot is lackluster.
Sarah, the human interested in the MC, makes the same statements over and over. Everytime.
There’s some other boring ‘vampire� stuff. Really. Just a tired worn out cliche.
A remarkably boring book.
The MC is about as interesting dried paint. The female MC/love interest is about the same. The plot is lackluster.
Sarah, the human interested in the MC, makes the same statements over and over. Everytime.
There’s some other boring ‘vampire� stuff. Really. Just a tired worn out cliche.
Shelved as 'dnf'
February 12, 2025I'm not saying this book was written by ChatGPT. I'm saying this book's writing style has a lot in common with ChatGPT. Lots of repeated phrases. Lots of those types of summary paragraphs you get at the end of a prompt response.
It's a shame. There's a skeleton of a good story in here, but instead of flesh, it's draped with paper-mâché, and that's what makes it difficult to get through.
It's a shame. There's a skeleton of a good story in here, but instead of flesh, it's draped with paper-mâché, and that's what makes it difficult to get through.
January 24, 2025
It was fine except the FL is the undead type of vampire and that completely killed it for me.
March 21, 2025
Good Read 👍
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I sincerely hope that the rest of you out there enjoy it as much as I did.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I sincerely hope that the rest of you out there enjoy it as much as I did.
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