What's a witch to do when she falls for the vampire she's supposed to kill?
Lisa wasn't your typical college girl. She was a witch on a mission. A witch with no magic sent to find the vampire who killed her best friend and make the undead bitch pay.
The only problem? She's hunting a vampire whose fanged face haunts her dreams. She can't get her out of her mind. And when she meets Ivy she falls. Hard.
That was not part of the plan.
Ivy wasn't your typical college girl. No, she was a vampire running a secret sorority of the undead where that undeath was a life sentence to an endless boring party.
Only Ivy had problems. Like newly turned pledges who refused to follow orders. Like a dead witch killed by one of those pledges. Like the threat of witches descending on her sorority and destroying everything she's built over long decades in retaliation for one stupid pledge's mistake.
The last thing she needed complicating things was a mysterious freshman girl coming along and capturing her mind like no human had in decades. A girl who was hiding a dangerous secret that could be the end of everything she's built...
Fang U is a 70k lesbian vampire romance with a little bit of humor, a little bit of horror, a touch of magic, and a whole lot of fun!
I'm giving this a 5-star rating. There was a lot to like about this, and not a lot to not like. From the plot to the characters (specifically how it goes back and forth between the two main characters adn we get to see their POV's). The story itself is about a college freshman, Lisa, who's actually a witch (just doesn't have her powers yet) and is tasked with staking out a vampire, who's been haunting her dreams, who supposedly killed her best friend, another witch, Selene. Things get messy though, as she meets and gets to know Ivy she can't help but get drawn into the vampire who she's supposed to be watching and if she gets enough evidence against Ivy she has to report it to the head of her coven. She soon discovers something more to the mystery of how her friend died, and who actually killed her. On top of that, Ivy, meanwhile can't help but figure out Lisa. It's a pretty lengthy read and it took me around an hour maybe more to complete it.
Artless, mindless. Nope. Can’t do it. I tried. 37%! The author must think her readers imbeciles or something. Repetitions over repetitions, inner monologues rehashing, TELLING the same things over and over and over.
Then, there was that unacceptable thoughtlessness in the writing, an inconsistency; Diana brings her pledge buddies to look at the witch on her balcony, recognising the girl in her dream with certainty, event which the lead vampire Ivy witnesses CLEARLY, but when we’re at the party, a mere few pages later, Ivy wonders, “After all, if I recognized her from that strange dream then who was to say Diana didn't recognize her as well?” Hah! I strongly suspect the author couldn’t rein in her urge to blather endlessly using her characters’ inner voice there.
The supposed antagonist Diana was plugged in as an afterthought to create tension or danger to our protagonist, and her continued existence was “justified” by Ivy whining about her mom’s order not to kill said pledges herself. An order that itself was never justified or elaborated on. I was surprised the author didn’t want to yap about the root cause of it. Oh, I guess she just hadn’t planned a credible working world and thus thought she could gloss over such things with “Mother said I can’t end her, damn!” Which, of course, was repeated a distasteful number of times. Perhaps the author was hoping to hammer us with the same sentence enough times that it might have become convincing in our, it would seem, brainless little heads?
A young witch who has studies all of the spells, but hasn't had the magic come to her yet... A violation of the agreement between witches and vampires, resulting in her best friend's death while away at college... A vampire who had a brilliant idea that might just have saved her kind by helping them blend into modern society better, but has left her bored to undeath and dealing with the fallout of a mistake by one of her underlings that could bring the wrath of the witches down upon them and destroy everything she's built over the long years of her unlife... And dreams... dreams that the young witch has had for years that suggest the vampire she's been sent to hunt down and find so her coven can destroy her is not someone she wants to destroy, but someone very, very different. You know... the girl of her...
Anyway... this story starts out with a premise that suggests all of the above, so it isn't really a spoiler. The way the plot rolls out is fun, humorous in spots, suspenseful in others, and all in all a great read. The chemistry between the leading ladies is electric, once they finally meet in reality. Along the way, Lisa finds out more about some of the people at her college than she probably expected to know and manages to grow a bit as a person, which is always nice.
The pacing of the story is well done and the world building is good. There are some hints laid about some possible additional mysteries to be explored in this world, which could mean we might see more of Lisa and Ivy in the future, but the story stands on its own without feeling like "part one" of anything, which is always the best way for any story to be. (Though it's nice to walk away from the story feeling like we might meet the characters again if the author gets the urge to write about them.)
As for any editing issues mentioned in other reviews, that's what the Beta readers are for, after all. Those are all gone, as far as I can tell, in the finished manuscript of the novel.
This is a well written book about a conflict between vampires and witches. Set on a college campus, the main characters experience the typical college parties and a growing attraction to one another. The storyline, centered around the death of a witch at the hands of a vampire, flows easily from the pages. Very light on the lesbian attraction, this book is still worth a place on your must read list.
A vampire and a witch, good combo. I would love to see a follow-up to the story as the two lovers deal with the fall out. Good story. A few typos that would probably go unnoticed if my kindle were not the one reading the story out loud to me.
It was alright. I was more interested in Ivy's POV's at first rather than our main heroine but it got better near the end. I'd be interested in a sequel