My Roommate Is a Vampire

“You can pay me back later,” I said, inserting my credit card into the machine. “With your gold doubloons.”

When Cassie Greenberg, the quintessential post-grad starving artist, finds a craigslist-ad for a spare bedroom in Chicago, it seems too good to be true. $200 a month for a brownstone in Lincoln Park can't come without a catch, but Cassie is charmed by her old-fashioned and devastatingly handsome new roommate, Frederick J. Fitzwilliam — who also happens to be a vampire.

I would like to begin by saying I had no idea this was a reworked Reylo fanfic from 2019. I went through an intense stormpilot phase in my younger years and have stayed firmly away from any Reylo-adjacent publications. I honestly couldn't tell this book was inspired by their dynamic, and truthfully I would have read something else to scratch my rom-com itch if I'd known. That being said, I truly enjoyed this book.

It's like when you go to a unassuming shop, eat some bomb-ass rice pudding, then find out it's a front for an illegal gambling ring. If I'd known, I wouldn't have gone in, but God am I glad I ate that rice pudding.

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