Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

 

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Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company: New York; 2009.

“The suspense keeps you on the edge of your seat!” (Emily, 14).

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Annotation: Jessica had big plans for senior year, none of which involved dating a vampire. That is, until a handsome Romania prince named Lucius Vladescu comes to claim her as his bride.

Book Talk:

Jessica has a secret past. Born Anastasia, she was adopted from Romania as a baby. Can it be true that she was born to vampires who betrothed her to Lucius?

“The first time I saw him, a heavy, gray fog clung to the cornfields, tails of mist slithering between the dying stalks. It was a dreary early morning right after Labor Day, and I was waiting for the school bus, just minding my own business, standing at the end of the dirt lane that connected my family’s farmhouse to the main road into town.

I was thinking about how many times I’d probably waited for that bus over the course of a dozen years, killing time like any mathlete would, by doing the calculations in my head, when I noticed him.

It had never struck me how vulnerable I’d been all those mornings I’d waited out there alone, but the realization hit me hard then.”