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When Life Gives You Vampires
When Life Gives You Vampires | Gloria Duke
6 posts | 4 read | 4 to read
Single (plus size) vampire, desperately in search of a life. Twenty-five year old Lily Baines is used to waking up hungover, overweight, and underemployed. Waking up with fangs? Not so much. But when a little light necking has more serious consequences than she ever imagined, Lily's determined to get to the bottom of it, or die (again) trying. Tristan hadn't meant to turn Lilyit's against vampire lawbut now that she's here, they need to team up to save both their hides. They strike an uneasy truce, fending off other vampires, Lily's work-rival-turned-slayer, and her mother's tone-deaf romance and fitness advice...all while Lily faces down her insecurities about the fact that she lives in a diet-obsessed world with a body that will never age, never die, and never change. Falling for her maddeningly gorgeous sire? Easy. Surviving an ancient vampire Master determined to see her twice-dead? Piece of cake. But can Lily ever truly learn to love the woman she'll be forever more? Bridget Jones for the vampire obsessed: fans of Olivia Dade, Tessa Bailey, and Julie Murphy will love to sink their teeth into this charming romantic comedy.
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OriginalCyn620
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I have this audiobook in Chirp…I hope I can get to it before this month is over!

#scarathlon #TeamCreepinItReal #scarathlonphotochallenge #vampire 6 pts

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Ash.on.the.line
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I have this on hold on Libby but it fits todays #scarathlon photo prompt #vampires
Don‘t think it will come before Halloween so I‘m listening to others while I wait!

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Laughterhp
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Mehso-so

So to be fair, this book did give me trigger warnings and warned me about body image, unhealthy eating, low self esteem, etc. I didn‘t think it would annoy me so much, but it did. Her self esteem was just so low and all she did was focus on how she and everyone else looked and perceived her. It drove me nuts. This is also a romance.

#magicalmonsters #scarathlon #littenlisten #rushathon #31by31 #spookoween #falling4books #bookspinbingo 80pts each

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 6mo
aperfectmjk Wow, you haven't been having much luck. 🥺 6mo
Read4life 🍁👻🎃 6mo
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TheSpineView Great job for finishing! 6mo
Catsandbooks That's so frustrating!👻 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Oh dear, I feel like you've had a lot of so-sos in a row!! 6mo
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LibrarianRyan
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Mehso-so

3 ⭐ This was a fun romcom of a vampire novel. There are things that I do find annoying. Our protagonist is a plus size lady like myself. She is constantly worried about her image and her size in particular. She believes that she needs to be thinner. This becomes a blockage in her mind for most of the story. Whether it‘s because someone couldn‘t like her for her size or how getting down on herself for her own size, harms other people.

LibrarianRyan Those portions of the story really annoy me. I was hoping this would have good fat representation, but the character is just so down on herself that it gets annoying with how often it happens. She does come to accept herself in the end because she‘s a vampire and will never be able to change the way that she looks but her size is mentioned, commented o,n made aware of, its just too much. Take all that stuff away and this book is otherwise pretty 1y
LibrarianRyan is otherwise pretty fun. She is made a vampire by her own accidental, exuberance and fooling around. This brings the vampire council to her door to tell her. Hey that‘s illegal. They do this by stealing her mother. While that is more the end of the book, the rest of the book is this hot guy who happens to write romance novels can never love her because she doesn‘t love herself. Overall, I liked the book and would be happy to read a sequel as long 1y
LibrarianRyan as they cut half of it out. I like this book when it focused on the romcom story. I didn‘t like this book when it focused on the weight of our main character. 1y
Jari-chan I totally get your points. Since I'm in recovery I've started to recognize all the fat shaming in our society. The scenes you mentioned would trigger me enormously. Happily, she at least learns to accept herself at the end 👍 1y
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kimmypete1
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Pickpick

Funny, cute and light hearted. I really enjoyed this body positive vampire romance. Only had one tiny issue, but since the rest of the book was awesome it‘s easy to forgive.

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kimmypete1
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Opened with a bang and so far following through well!

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