[I received a digital arc for a honest]
How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love by DN Bryn is the second book in her Guides for Dating Vampires series. While you could possibly read this without having read the first, you might find yourself lost. While it's focuses on different people, the main bad guys and the location is the same as the first with an overarching story line.
"Just how much do you need me?"
"Absolutely, excruciatingly, always."
Dr. Clementine Hughes doesn't know how he became a vampire but when his access to the lab's blood bank gets cut off he needs to learn how to adapt quickly. The first person he attempts to feed from turns out to be Justin ,a protector of vampires , who offers to sell him his blood and teach him vampire 101. Justin need's the money to continue to take care of and protect his little community where vampires and humans live together. Justin doesn't have time for his attraction to Clementine and tries to keep things professional. The more they get to know each other the more those lines blur but in the end will secrets destroy their connection and threaten those Justin cares for.
"You, with your incredible blood and your incredible kisses and your incredible – occasionally bitter- personality, you are wonderful."
I really enjoyed Clementine"Lemon" and Justin's relationship progression. Justin is sexually attracted to Clementine from the start, but it's not so for Clementine. Clem dreams of having the intense reactions to another person that he writes about in his steamy fan fiction, but has never experienced. Justin isn't any different, but the more he gets to know him the more his feelings develop. He figures out he must land on the ace spectrum , either grayasexual or demigrayromantic, which helps him accept there was nothing wrong with him up to this point. Their slow romance goes from partners to friendship to love with teasing along the way and results in a detailed steamy open door scene.
There was no crossover, no hesitation, no instant where it went from his kiss to their kiss, it just was, as though it had been so at the beginning of time and would be so at the end of it too.
While it was a tad bit too long in my opinion, the story and characters made it enjoyable. Oh also the cameos from the first couple made me smile. At the end we are told who the next story is about, and I'm intrigued but I really hope Justin's best friend /vampire Isiah gets a book !!
Overall, How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love is a great continuation of the Guides for Dating vampire series. A Queer paranormal romance between a slightly more than human vampire protector and a newbie vampire chemist. Filled with Ace rep, a slow burn romance, blackmail, secrets, danger, vampire 101, Star Trek fan fiction, public teasing, and a happy ending for the couples relationship.