Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

By Beth Fantaskey

Book Overview

The undead can really screw up your senior year . . . Marrying a vampire definitely doesn't fit into Jessica Packwood's senior year "get-a-life" plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth--and he's her long-lost fiancé. Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire's Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions, Jessica makes a dramatic transition from average American teenager to glam European vampire princess. But when a devious cheerleader sets her sights on Lucius, Jess finds herself fighting to win back her wayward prince, stop a global vampire war--and save Lucius's soul from eternal destruction This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152063846
• ISBN13: 9780152063849
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Loved it.

Originality: 5 Characters: 4 Writing: 5 Setting: 4 Plot: 5 Passion: 4 Overall: 27/30 90% = A Cover Bonus: 0 First off, I need to address why I ended up reading this book. I was NOT going to read this. I'll address some of these reasons *cough* cover *cough*, *cough* title *cough* later. Until I read Beth Fantaskey's guest blog on Wondrous Reads. This guest post [..] in and I purchased my copy that very afternoon. And please...

Dating On The Dark Side is never easy..

What do you get when you put a normal high school senior, a vampire prince and high school together? Problems. C'mon, what did you think I was going to say?! Jessica has always been normal, with a normal life, she was adopted when she was really young and doesn't know a lot about her birth parents. She's ready for her senior year to be the best year and hopefully she'll get to score a date with Jake. But, when Lucius Valdescu...

Much Better Than Twilight

Twilight has been getting a lot of press. Making a movie out of it and having loads of teens reading it. I believe that Jessica's Guide is better. Having read both I would say that this novel appeals more to an older age. The writing is less sophomoric and the implications of sexual acts are much better. The story is about Jessica, a small town girl who lives in farm country Pennsylvania. Near her 18th birthday a Romanian...

Just couldn't put this book down!

I finished this book in about 2 days because I just could not put it down. I was very interested in what happened next to Jessica. The basis of this book is that a handsome boy from Romania shows up as an exchange student at Jessica's school and informs Jessica that she is a vampire princess and promised to him. Their marriage is said to end a feud between two vampire clans. Jessica is basically someone who does not believe...

Handy tips for dating the undead

Beth Fantaskey's "Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side" is a tongue-in-cheek teenage vampire romance that will have you cheering for its heroine. Jessica Packwood is an adopted Romanian orphan with loving, hippie parents. Raised on a strict vegan diet, she's a math geek, and at seventeen, she's never been kissed. She's not afraid of getting dirty; she helps muck stables and does household chores on the farm as the only...