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On the Vampire Reality Show, Forever After, unexpected love isn’t the only plot twist.

Autumn Reid is in a rut. At nearly thirty years old, she hasn’t ventured outside her sleepy Georgia town of Covey Crossing. When her father sees an ad for a new dating show, Forever After, she jumps on the chance. It’s a dating show with a twist, featuring a vampire bachelor. Sure, the winner gets the choice of cash or immortality, but Autumn doesn’t expect to make it that far. She just needs a shakeup in her dull life. What she doesn’t expect is the infuriatingly handsome vampire duke.

Impoverished duke Oliver Gray desperately needs money to save his estate. When he’s offered the chance to become the bachelor on Forever After, he has no choice but to accept. There’s a catch—he has to wear Victorian clothing from the era during which he turned and pretend to have been hibernating for the last one hundred years. Fine. He can pretend to be clueless and don a top hat once more. What he truly struggles to figure out is the alluring human with a smart mouth. But he can’t seem to send her home, not when something deep down inside insists she may be his one true mate.

But figuring out whether they might love or hate one another is the least of Autumn and Oliver’s problems. Contestants are being murdered one by one, and a vampire appears to be to blame. But the show must go on, and the director is convinced a relocation to their finale destination in England will solve all their problems. But Oliver and Autumn’s dreams of forever after may be cut short when the killer follows them across the pond and decides Autumn is next.

I used to love stories about vampires. But recently I haven’t read many fantasy or paranormal novels. So when I saw the cover of ‘Forever After’, and read the book description, I really was curious about this book. When I got approved to read it, I was really excited and started reading as soon as possible.

In ‘Forever After’ we meet Autumn Reid. Autumn is a librarian, and has always lived a safe and sheltered life. Now she is determined to do something different. So she signs up for a real life dating show called Forever After. This is a dating show featuring a vampire and the winner of the vampires heart gets to choose cash or immortality.

Oliver Gray really needs money to save his home. So when he gets asked to act as an duke in a reality show, he can’t resist. Doing the show should be easy work, but when Oliver meets Autumn and realizes she is his true mate, things get complicated.

So.. I totally admit that this book sounded kind of cheesy. I mean, set in a reality show fighting for the ‘bad boy’s heart? But this book just had something about it I enjoyed. The two main characters Autumn and Oliver where really fun to get to know. I loved Autumn. She was just someone I could easily imagine being friends with. And Oliver? Well.. Hello.. He is a duke, more than a hundred years old and he is really handsome. What’s not to like about him?

The whole reality show part, and the murders didn’t really necessarily work for me. I honestly felt like the mystery part was a bit redundant. And I couldn’t really picture the whole reality show part. But I liked the characters, and the whole vampire part enough to not let that bother me. Above all I really enjoyed the romance between Autumn and Oliver. Oliver was just so loveable. I especially loved how he was totally smitten with Autumn from the start.

‘Forever After’ was a fun read I definitely enjoyed.

Maureen Bakker

Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always!  Facebook | Instagram