This book is Ms. Frame’s return to the paranormal realm after a while in other sub-genres, which I was quite looking forward to.  The plot was well rendered, Amelia was a complex, attractive character and Byron (who I anticipated loving) proved to be a highly annoying woman who was entirely too self-absorbed.  It was fine, but did not have sufficient action to merit a series.

I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review. 

All in all this book was not what I expected it to be. And that might have ruined the experience for me. The blurb creates a nice little window into this book and my brain kind of took over from there.

This book relies heavily on romance/sex as a guiding thread throughout the book and I feel the characters are underdeveloped because of it. The story takes ages with setting the pace for the reader and it just became a chore instead of a pleasant experience to read this book.

The character of Amelia appears to be more than she currently portrays herself to be and I am curious how she will continue on in book 2. She was the most intriguing to me and she's not even the vampire in all of this.

The writing style feels very vampire fanfiction if that makes sense? 
It is easy to follow and it becomes very clear where a scene is leading towards

Overall, this is not a bad book. I think that if my expectations had not been so high it would have been more enjoyable.

Reader advice:I would advise any readers to invest in the prequel short story Dapper before reading Hunger For You.

Well I wasn’t expecting that! To tell you the truth I had put Hunger For You off as long as I could. I love Jenny Frames books but I’m not a fan of paranormal genres so with trepidation (and because I loved the prequel Dapper), I started and oh my, was I wrong to be worried. It was fantastic.

Amelia Honey works for her uncle as a suit designer and is madly in love with their most handsome client, Byron Debrek. Little does Amelia know that Byron is head of the vampire underworld. Byron loves Amelia dearly but she has to protect her at all costs even if it means breaking Amelia’s heart.

I adored this book from start to finish. I was transported into a great story line with believable characters (I know this is paranormal but the characters were so realistic) and an emotional roller-coaster that I didn’t want to get off.

Byron Debrek was everything that makes me swoon; hot, butch and with a big heart she tries to hide while putting everyone before herself. She loves Amelia so much and craves her in ways that is almost animatistic *wink*. Amelia on the other hand, I respected like a close friend. She acts all sweet and naïve but behind the façade is a strong, empowered woman who ends up being the strong person in this duo. The sex between Byron and Amelia is off the chart, even more so when Amelia finds out that Byron is a Vampire. Jenny is fast becoming one of the best sex scene writers in Lesbian Fiction.

The secondary characters in the book were fantastic, even the evil vampire and villain of the story, Victorija. I actually had a thought the other day that I’d love for Victorija to become a good vampire and get her happy ever after, now that would be an amazing storyline. But until then I’d settle for another book focusing on the dark and brooding, Alexis and girl next door, Katie, whom had a love hate relationship throughout the whole book; I think there could be real raw emotions at play here with deep-seated attraction and I can’t wait to read it, hopefully in book two.

I’ll be watching closely to see what come next from these characters. As for Jenny Frame what ever she writes next will be top of my list.

5 stars

This story was a great story line, good concept. The characters strong and relatable. Byron with her torment, honor and martyr tendencies. Then Amrlia with her sassy streak, sweet temperament and naivete. Both characters make the book a stronger read.
However delivery let's it down and i found that it was quite long winded and difficult to continue with.

I want to know if this is going to be a series, because I hope so! This first book (hopefully first book) would lend itself well to being the start of a series. 

Jenny Frame has done well with her Royale series, and I feel like this is just putting those into the vampire world. There is still quite the hierarchy with the Principe and such, so if you like those books then I'm sure you'll like this as well. 

I do have one specific critique that I didn't understand. Byron is said to have died at 18. That must mean that she looks super young, and yet it isn't mentioned once. Especially if she is known around the world, isn't it weird that she is this billionaire banker whose running things at 18? Maybe I'm the only one who looked really young at 18...

Overall an entertaining read.

I want to start by saying that I really wanted to like this book. I’ve read another of Jenny Frame’s novels, A Royal Romance and I really enjoyed it. Sure, it had its more…mature moments, but by and large the book was plot driven, the characters well put-together and the story an enjoyable one to read. So I was excited to read another of her books, and to review it for you guys. 

Do you want to know the thing that most annoys me about the LGBT+ fiction section in any website/library/shop? Fiction is a pretty big label, and you never know what you’re going to get. It could be romance, science fiction, horror, teen fiction, young adult fiction, fantasy…in this case it was pure, unfiltered smut. The first third of the book at least was essentially pornography before the plot even tried to start. I know, look at the title, look at the cover, I should have known. But it was about VAMPIRES so I thought maybe it was just unfortunately named. I was wrong. 

I was so very wrong. 

Books contain sex, I know this, you know this, your local librarian knows this (I worked as a librarian and yes, we do notice you borrowing those books discreetly and no, we do not judge you for it) and that is by no means a bad thing, but there comes a point where it gets excessive. Hunger For You approached this point at a sprint and then vaulted over it, before disappearing into the sunset on the other side. The sheer amount of smut made reading it a bit of a chore. Is it too much to ask, just once, for a lesbian fiction story that isn’t pornographic? I wanted vampires, not vagina. 

One lesson that has stuck with me through years of creative writing lectures, informative books and editing of my own work is this: show, don’t tell. Unfortunately, I was only a few pages in when I encountered this line: 

“…her many family secrets, the most important of which was that the Debreks were a royal family of immortal vampires, running an international banking and business group.”

Now, any fan of vampire lore will agree that banking is probably a very good career for a vampire to go into. There’s relative anonymity, and historically they have always been fans of counting (mwa ha ha) but to outright tell me the biggest family secret right out of the gate took some of the excitement out of it. Of course, I know the book is about vampires, it’s right there in the description. But instead of just telling me this, SHOW ME vampires, show me how they hide in plain sight, show me those moments where the façade slips and you see them for what they are. In addition to this, vampires in this book blend in and sate their hunger by drinking chilled blood disguised as red wine. Now I’m just putting it out there, red wine and blood have very different viscosities and I’m pretty sure blood coagulates when chilled. If I saw someone drinking thick, gloopy red wine I’d probably run for the hills. Alas, Amelia is just dim enough to not notice. 

There are interesting elements to Byron’s backstory, she lived as a man for years when living both as a lesbian and as a woman in professional business were impossible – I wanted to see more of this potential for a rich, queer history and for a positive representation of a butch, masculine lesbian in today’s society. To her credit, Frame does write lesbian relationships with more masculine women – something I’ve often found lacking in lesbian representation, and Byron is certainly masculine. Instead I got page upon page of Byron’s increasingly bloodthirsty sexual encounters with a blissfully oblivious Amelia (and I mean oblivious, she had the two pin-prick marks of a vampire bite on her neck for SIX MONTHS and didn’t bat an eyelid. There’s not wanting to see the worst in your partner and then there’s actively ignoring that they might want to drink your blood). Honestly, it was constant, dating this woman must be exhausting. I was exhausted just reading it. Additionally, if the majority of your dates are spent trying not to kill your partner, I hate to say it but that isn’t a healthy relationship. 

The world-building is a little sloppy too, other species are introduced – witches, shifters, fae, shifter-fae-vampire-bird-women, but the majority are glossed over very briefly and never mentioned again. Where we could have had urban fantasy, secret communities of preternatural beings living alongside humanity, we got smut and an attempt at the politics of the vampire court that I wanted more of, but never got. I feel like this is the running theme for this book, as a fan of fantasy, horror and lesbians I wanted so much more then I got from this book. Overall, this one just wasn’t for me. I wanted so much for it to be good, to be able to go ‘look! Lesbian fiction can be great! Go read this it’s fantastic!’ but instead I got porn with an attempt at plot, and the phrase ‘firm buttocks’ inexplicably stuck in my head. 

A copy of Hunger for You was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

In ‘Hunger for You’ Jenny Frame has written the most intense, emotionally charged love story between two women. Byron Debrek is the head of her vampire clan and lives a controlled life, forever afraid to let go incase the world sees the real her. When she meets Amelia Honey, a Savile Row tailor, she is torn between keeping this control and opening up to the one woman who fuels a hunger in her that cannot be satisfied by any other.  Byron knows that if Amelia gets close to her she will be in danger from a rival clan and she will do anything to keep Amelia safe.  This rivalry lends so much  tension and threat to the story and introduces us to a world of vampires, fae, witches and the like.

Byron is a stylish butch and head of a multi-billion dollar banking dynasty as well as Principe of her clan. I loved her. She was kind, thoughtful and put everyone else before herself. Amelia was strong and more capable than she ever imagined she would be. Their passion and powerful connection made the sex scenes amongst the best I’ve ever read. They are guaranteed to get the reader all hot and bothered. Jenny Frame writes brilliant love scenes in all of her books and makes me believe the characters crave each other.  She made me crave more of Byron and Amelia. The world she has set up in this book is so well imagined and there is so much more to the story. I didn’t want it to end and I found myself trying to drag out the last chapter as long as I possibly could. Five Stars and highly recommended.

I was given this ARC by Bold Strokes Books and Netgalley in return for an honest review.

Good read.  I enjoyed the story line and characters.  I am looking forward to reading more from this author.  Characters were engaging and likable with great chemistry.  The author kept my attention from the first pate to the end.  I would recommend.

An honest review thanks to NetGalley.  Wow.  I liked this book; I love supernatural, and Frame did a great job introducing her vampires, their backstories, and their world.  I loved Byron and the story that takes place between her and Amelia.  There did seem to be some unfinished parts of the plot at the end; I am hoping Frame writes a second novel.  The secondary characters were also very compelling; I will be excited to see if this new world is expanded to reading the story about other characters.

i really love Jenny Frame's books and this is a really good one. this is the sequel of Dapper and the first one was steamy enough, in the second wow!! it's difficult to have a relationship if you are a vampire and sometimes you have to send your love away to protect her. i really hope that the next book of the series is published really soon

3.25 Stars. I’m a huge paranormal fan. I love all types of supernaturals but I hold a special place in my heart for vampires. Not the sparkly kind, but the ones with some grit. Whenever I see a new paranormal lesfic book it just makes me instantly happy. (Just like lesfic fantasy and sci-fi, there never seems to be enough) I really do appreciate when authors in lesfic write them. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the book I hoped for. It’s not bad, I would actually say slightly better than okay. It’s just that I wanted a great vampire book.

The first 1/3 of the book I really struggled with. It seems to only be about sex and blood. Nothing else was really happening and I was losing patience quickly. Luckily, the middle third picked up and I finally felt like I was getting into the story. Then the final third started to go down again. I guess my point is the main premise is there, the execution is just not coming all together. I can see potential in this as a series, but this first book didn’t really hit its mark.

I enjoyed Amelia, the human character. She was likeable and stood up for herself. I had trouble with Byron though. Byron is this “dapper” butch character who is supposed to be the biggest, baddest vamp ever. I love strong kick-ass women, but her character came across as almost whiney to me. I just didn’t get what was so great about Byron. I do have to say I really liked the secondary characters. I can easily see this being a series. You can actually guess which charters and couples could star in the next book like Alexis and Katie. I found myself more interested in their possible story than I did in the main couple.

My biggest disappointment really was the action or lack thereof. To make a really great paranormal book, it should be at least 50% action. This book felt like maybe 20% action? It just was not enough to sustain this length of book.

I definitely had issues with this, but it’s an okay story. The premise is there and I am holding out hope the next book will be much better. I already like the potential of a book staring almost any of the secondary characters. I just hope Frame will put some good action in book 2.

P.S. The short Dapper is a prequel to this book. It is when Amelia and Byron first meet. You don’t have to read it, but I was glad I did.

Jenny Frame always writes captivating books and Hunger For You was no exception my only problem with this is Byrons name which made it hard for me to connect with her as i keep imaging a man in my head but beyond that small hiccup it was smooth sailing throughout.

This was just like any other vampire story.... The story had too much detail and has too many sexscenes - it is more an erotic book than a romance novel and the plot gets kind of lost in between.

I absolutely loved this book! I really hope there will be more in the series - I want Alexis and Katie's story STAT (*please*). 

Amelia is a tailor living in London, dating the enigmatic and handsome Byron for the past six months. To Amelia, Byron is an international banker. But in Byron's world, she's Principe, born-vampire, head of her clan. Byron whisks Amelia away to her family home for a vacation, desperate to show the first woman she has fallen for in centuries, just how much she feels for her. But hiding her true nature is difficult, and is made even more so as danger threatens their safety and peace. In order to protect Amelia, she must break both their hearts and send Amelia home. But danger still lurks and threatens Amelia's life, and Byron will do anything to protect her. Can Amelia trust Byron with her life? With her heart?

This book had a really great balance between the romance and the action. I didn't have to compromise on either and enjoyed this story thoroughly.  

I loved all the love scenes - each was sensual in their own way and each showed a unique aspect of Amelia's and Byron's relationship and their emotions. I'm not a fan of endless sex scenes usually, but this was the perfect way to up the steamy factor in your novels and still keep it fresh and new, and adds a lot to the story and the characters.  

The characters, wow, Jenny Frame is a master at creating unique and  interesting characters. Amelia is instantly likeable. Byron is a little emotionally tortured and draws you in. All the secondary characters brought warmth to a high stakes fight for survival. I was not only fully invested in our leading ladies, but I found myself forming connections with all the secondary characters as well. I was thoroughly engaged in every single page of this book. 

Jenny Frame is an extremely talented writer. Technically flawless, easy flow, instant connection to the characters. It's easy to get lost in the worlds she creates. 

Whenever Amelia was called Miss Honey, all I could think of was Miss Honey in Matilda and that's all I could see for the rest of the book. Although, not a bad imagine to have ;)

I received an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This read more like an erotica than a romance. The sex was frequent and well detailed, however other elements of the story like the plot and character development got left behind. It was very cliche but still an enjoyable fun read.

This is probably one of the few books that I am going to put on my did not finish reading list. It felt like this should have been book two in a series. There were so many things that I felt like I should have known or could have been made clearer with a book before it. The sex scenes I encountered I skipped over, and there was your usual power hungry vampire fanfare. I just couldn’t get into this. Not saying other people might not enjoy it but it wasn’t for me.

I hope we get a continuation would love to know more about Amelia's background since Byron mention the would find out what happen to her family. I guess my only let down was when Victorija I though she was going to fight to the end. You could feel her sadness and how jealous she was but like Byron mention to their grandmother we all have a choice in what we do with our lives.

Jenny Frame is a very detailed, talented author. This story has a lot of detail and the storyline is about vampires.  

Amelia is a well crafted character who has a high degree of self worth. She is open, vulnerable, strong, and talented and you can see how her character remains true to these traits throughout the story.

Byron is guarded and not well developed as other vampire stories I have read. So it was difficult to connect with this character. Or why Amelia would want to be with Byron. In fact, other than intense sex, which is most of the book, I can't see why Amelia would find Bryon worthy of her? 

Great setting and interesting sub-characters that would make for a great spin offs.

Jenny Frame just knows how to craft an interesting plot with strong characters. This paranormal romance was another great and entertaining read by her. Apart from a prequel short story Dapper this is the first novel in the series and I'm totally hooked and so looking forward to the next book.

Byron Debrek, billionaire banker and head of the Debrek vampire clan, is in love with Amelia Honey, Savile Row tailor. Amelia has her misgivings about Byron because she keeps missing dates or having to dash out at short notice to see someone but Amelia doesn’t know that Byron is a vampire. They’re in love with each other but neither can say the words – Amelia because of the missed dates and secrecy and Byron because she can’t bear to see the look of disgust when her secret discovered.

I liked premise of the story which has a lot more to it than indicated above but I’m not so sure about the execution. There are some things missing in construct like why they’re all day-walkers but that might have been explained in ‘Dapper’ which is 0.5 in the series and I haven’t read it yet. It doesn’t bother me that they’re day-walkers but I would like to know why. Vampire themed books are quite often a vehicle for eroticism but this came across more as a love story. The chemistry between Byron and Amelia was more intermittent than constant.

Amelia Honey is a lovely character. She’s got great attitude, won’t allow Byron to treat her time as less valuable because she’s a tailor and has a lot of strength. Byron was more problematic. I hate her name because I was unable to see her as a woman and I’ve read books with woman characters with names like Graham, Michael and Kyle and didn’t have a fraction of the difficulty that I had with Byron. I think it’s also, in part, due to her characterisation. I couldn’t see her in my head and every time I read her name I had to stop, realign my thinking and continue. Even writing this is difficult because I want to use masculine pronouns.

In future instalments I wouldn’t mind reading about the other characters like Alexis, Katie, Bhal, Daisy and Victorija but it would mean getting beyond Byron.

Book received from Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.