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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.
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 27, 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
November 18, 2025
Not sure what I was expecting but it wasn't a pointless, repetitive, shallow story about a grocery store worker and the world's most boring vampire. The story was very basic, just vampire woman shows up out of nowhere and starts courting some random loser, claiming he is the reincarnation of her old lover. I started skimming about 20% in, hoping for something interesting to happen, but it never does. The romance feels shallow and forced, and the characters are stereotypical and flat.
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.
Did Not Finish
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.
May 14, 2026
A decent one-off novel marred by a truly unsatisfying ending. I'll keep it spoiler-free but that's something everyone should know before picking this up for a quick read: (in my opinion) the ending is deeply unsatisfying.
Fangs and First dates is the second of Logan Stone's foray into the yandere-themed men's romance genre. I think it has a number of improvements over the first entry, but also has a number of serious steps backwards.
First, the characters are fine. Serviceable. This is by no means an insult; I don't expect deep characters with gripping backstories and thrilling growth arcs from a <250-page novel. There was a strange, abrupt switch in the main protagonist's personality about halfway through, but it was more slightly confusing than a detraction.
My thoughts on the plot as a whole are all over the place even >1 week past when I finished the book. On one hand, the dynamic between the main protagonist and the main love interest is unique enough to not feel immediately identical to other novels in the genre. There's a lot of cute moments with a thousand-year-old vampire trying to woo this average Joe, which is what you're coming for. The average Joe, in this case, spends a good chunk of the book either stuck in their own head or going insane, which is a pretty dramatic shift from the first in the series. They are very much NOT interested in having their world turned upside down which led to more enjoyable romance moments.
I was a bit worried about consent with how strongly the main protagonist was opposed to the idea of the relationship, but I think it all ended in a good spot.
The back-and-forth perspectives are a highlight of Stone's novels to me. It's always really fun to see the completely polar opposite views on the world the pair have, and watching the yandere's plans triumph or fail unexpectedly is great no matter who's perspectives you experience them from.
On the other hand, the stakes definitely feel a bit lower in this story. It's not a spoiler to mention that the main character is the reincarnation of a vampire's lover; that part's pointed out in the book summary. This relationship structure has the somewhat detrimental effect of removing a good bit of interpersonal conflict from the story.
There's not really a question of whether the two will end up together. Well, it's much less of a question. This is something that you notice fairly early on, and it removed a lot of the suspense you want to see in this type of story. The main draw in a romance novel is seeing the 2+ characters grow together. Yandere novels have the added novelty of one or more of the characters acting insanely devoted to another, which generally serves as both a red flag and a subtle draw for the object of their attraction. This is present in Fangs and First Dates, but the suspense in seeing if the yandere has pushed it too far this time is gone. You don't really have to worry about their love failing, and it takes away from the suspense a bit.
Quick side tangent: The author could really improve their descriptions. Most of the characters and locations mentioned get minimal, if any, descriptions. Even the main characters didn't really get fleshed out that much. As someone with a degree of aphantasia, I was a little peeved by this. It does have the added benefit of dodging the trap a lot of men's romance authors fall into: weird/creepy/gross descriptions of anatomy. It's always a good day when I don't have to read someone get introduced and immediately get a description of their chest.
My other main critique involves the ending, so here's your spoiler warning:
Overall, this is a fun, short read for someone looking to kill an hour or two. It doesn't break new ground or reinvent the wheel and the ending left me pretty annoyed, but I would say I enjoyed it anyway. If you're into the genre or just looking for a quick, fun read, I say give it a shot.
Fangs and First dates is the second of Logan Stone's foray into the yandere-themed men's romance genre. I think it has a number of improvements over the first entry, but also has a number of serious steps backwards.
First, the characters are fine. Serviceable. This is by no means an insult; I don't expect deep characters with gripping backstories and thrilling growth arcs from a <250-page novel. There was a strange, abrupt switch in the main protagonist's personality about halfway through, but it was more slightly confusing than a detraction.
My thoughts on the plot as a whole are all over the place even >1 week past when I finished the book. On one hand, the dynamic between the main protagonist and the main love interest is unique enough to not feel immediately identical to other novels in the genre. There's a lot of cute moments with a thousand-year-old vampire trying to woo this average Joe, which is what you're coming for. The average Joe, in this case, spends a good chunk of the book either stuck in their own head or going insane, which is a pretty dramatic shift from the first in the series. They are very much NOT interested in having their world turned upside down which led to more enjoyable romance moments.
I was a bit worried about consent with how strongly the main protagonist was opposed to the idea of the relationship, but I think it all ended in a good spot.
The back-and-forth perspectives are a highlight of Stone's novels to me. It's always really fun to see the completely polar opposite views on the world the pair have, and watching the yandere's plans triumph or fail unexpectedly is great no matter who's perspectives you experience them from.
On the other hand, the stakes definitely feel a bit lower in this story. It's not a spoiler to mention that the main character is the reincarnation of a vampire's lover; that part's pointed out in the book summary. This relationship structure has the somewhat detrimental effect of removing a good bit of interpersonal conflict from the story.
There's not really a question of whether the two will end up together. Well, it's much less of a question. This is something that you notice fairly early on, and it removed a lot of the suspense you want to see in this type of story. The main draw in a romance novel is seeing the 2+ characters grow together. Yandere novels have the added novelty of one or more of the characters acting insanely devoted to another, which generally serves as both a red flag and a subtle draw for the object of their attraction. This is present in Fangs and First Dates, but the suspense in seeing if the yandere has pushed it too far this time is gone. You don't really have to worry about their love failing, and it takes away from the suspense a bit.
Quick side tangent: The author could really improve their descriptions. Most of the characters and locations mentioned get minimal, if any, descriptions. Even the main characters didn't really get fleshed out that much. As someone with a degree of aphantasia, I was a little peeved by this. It does have the added benefit of dodging the trap a lot of men's romance authors fall into: weird/creepy/gross descriptions of anatomy. It's always a good day when I don't have to read someone get introduced and immediately get a description of their chest.
My other main critique involves the ending, so here's your spoiler warning:
Overall, this is a fun, short read for someone looking to kill an hour or two. It doesn't break new ground or reinvent the wheel and the ending left me pretty annoyed, but I would say I enjoyed it anyway. If you're into the genre or just looking for a quick, fun read, I say give it a shot.
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.
February 27, 2026
Not as good as the first.
I liked the first of the series. It felt planned out and natural with the relationship between the two characters. So I thought that would carry over to this one.
This one felt a bit rushed. Especially with how quickly the male lead gave into the females aggressive advances. And there were sections that just felt like it was repeating itself halfway through. Or just like the characters both had adhd problems when it came to staying on topic. Then there is the very obvious skip in the story during the romance scene. Like half of Jakes pov of the event was cut out.
I liked the first of the series. It felt planned out and natural with the relationship between the two characters. So I thought that would carry over to this one.
This one felt a bit rushed. Especially with how quickly the male lead gave into the females aggressive advances. And there were sections that just felt like it was repeating itself halfway through. Or just like the characters both had adhd problems when it came to staying on topic. Then there is the very obvious skip in the story during the romance scene. Like half of Jakes pov of the event was cut out.
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.
August 4, 2025
This could have been a lot better. It was pleasant and a good short read.
September 29, 2025
just read the book already
Is just as good as the first one. should really get the reading right now. Read it in one sitting so not a bad book.
Is just as good as the first one. should really get the reading right now. Read it in one sitting so not a bad book.
April 7, 2026
As far as Vampire romance stories go, this wasn't too bad. I wish there was more, but this author really likes their short stories.
May 4, 2026
Hand up. I went into this one thinking it would be more on the erotica side of things i.e. sex in practically every chapter.
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