Forever After by Ashley R. KingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Librarian Autumn Reid is nearly thirty years old, lives in Covey Crossing and in order to get out of a rut decides to enter the dating show Forever After. The show features a vampire bachelor and the winner gets the choice of either a cash prize or immortality. Autumn doesn't expect to get far and so is just looking at it as a bit of a shakeup to her life. Vampire Oliver Gray is also an impoverished Duke and desperately needs to get money to save his estate, so when he is offered the chance to become the bachelor on Forever After he has no choice but to accept. The catch is he has to wear Victorian clothing from the war he was turned in and to have hibernated for the last one hundred years. He does, however, struggle with the gorgeous woman with the smart mouth and the sense that she is actually his one true mate. Figuring out their feelings is the least of Autumn and Oliver's worries as the contestants are murdered one by one and it appears that a vampire is to blame. The director moves the whole programme to England to try and solve their problems but that doesn't help. Can they solve the murders and both stay alive and free to pursue their burgeoning relationship?
I enjoyed this story which had the underlying romance between Autumn and Oliver woven into the murder mystery around the Forever After dating show. Some parts of the story were a bit cheesy but other bits were quite enjoyable. It was interesting to see the contrast between the different contestants in the competition and the lengths they were prepared to go to in order to win and consider how that reflects on human nature in general. It was easy to read and understand with minimal sexual content. It was easy to read to distract you from real-life and lose yourself in another world with vampires.
I received a copy of this from StoryOrigin and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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