What a delightful & fun vampire romance. This was lighthearted and funny, but also romantic.

Pandora and Victor were so adorable. Their romance is a well written slow burn that has sizzling chemistry. Their banter was a lot of fun and I liked their dynamic a lot.

The plot is wacky and entertaining, especially with Pandora's lovably chaotic and meddlesome family. There are plenty of shenanigans that happen that will make readers laugh out loud.

If you like marriage of convenience trope and quirky paranormal romances, this is the perfect book for you.

My Big Fat Vampire Wedding is a light-hearted and fun read. A perfect romantic comedy to lift your spirits and make you laugh. I really enjoyed it.

This follows a young vampire who needs to get married before her 125th birthday in order to have a claim on her inheritance and finally open the bookshop she’s always dreamed of owning. The catch is, her birthday is in 3 months and she is painfully single. Fortunately for her, she has a MEGA crush on the coffeeshop-cutie regular at her work and he is in convenient need of big money to continue his life’s work of obtaining a PhD in mythological studies. They work together to conjure up a fake relationship but end up navigating a whole lot more than they are contractually obligated to.

While this was a fun and quick read, I did find the beginning to be very clunky and almost overtly sardonic. Pandora is a “I’m not like other vamps” girlie to the highest degree and I found her hard to bear at times. The “world building” also felt a little redundant, as though the author didn’t trust us to know that werewolves are affected by the moon cycle.

I did really enjoy the side characters and subplots, especially the tension between her werewolf bestie Lucy and the mysterious “friend of the family” vamp Elias. Pandora’s family was a diverse crew and did hold true to the “my big fat wedding” chaos.

The MMC, Victor was dashing and logical, but definitely there for a good time. The romance was very sweet and had good tension/buildup but the two main character’s dialogue lacked consistency. It almost felt like fan-service leading up to a spicy scene and then leaned one-note during their causal interactions, even during the toned down romantic dialogue.

The 3rd act break-up wasn’t drawn out, and a lot of purpose was served during the time away which I can appreciate. The make-up felt a little rushed but the conclusion was satisfying.

Overall, it was very cute and would be a perfectly lovely read for the fall time. If the author does decide to write a side story on Lucy and Elias I would for sure pick that up in a heartbeat.

Victor and Pandora’s story was so cute and fun! Pandora is a vampire who needs to get married before her 126th birthday to receive her inheritance. Victor is a PhD student who needs financial help to complete his studies. They make a deal where they get married for a year so she can get the inheritance and he can get the money to complete his program. I loved watching the dynamic of her friends and family interacting with him. Their relationship was so fun to watch grow and chance. I liked this book!

I loved Pandora and Victors story. A fake engagement, a large vampire family stretching back hundreds of years, bookstores and coffee shops, this novel was right up my street.
My only niggle would be that I would have enjoyed more dialogue from Victor re his own phD thesis - the conversations between Pandora and him would have been so funny!

This was such a cute and easy read. It was goofy and also romantic. I loved the modern vampire feel, with the ‘reality’ of the massive family input for the wedding haha
With a splash of spice, amazing side characters to go with the main characters and humour I really enjoyed reading this book!!

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC.

I loved this book! This was the first book I have read by Jessica Gadziala, and I want to read more from this world.

This was so much fun, and there was so much pining and spicy moments.

Pandora, a very modern vampire, is about to turn 125, at which point she is set to inherit her family fortune. Unfortunately for Pandora, there is a very old-school clause that says she needs to be married before she can inherit. Since she is painfully single and her birthday is three months away, she is at a loss as to what to do.

In comes Victor, affectionately known as Caramel macchicot cutie, a student and regular at the coffee shop she works at and whom she has had a crush on for months. After sharing, he will no longer be coming in as he can't afford to continue getting his PhD, Pandora thinks he might be the perfect solution to her inheritance problem.

She just can't tell him , she is a vampire and her whole kooky extended family is one either.

This book gave me Addams Family meets Hotel Transylvania vibes with romance and spice. I loved it so much and it was such an easy read. Also the prettiest book cover

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the romance and the vampire aspect of the story as well

It had me hooked from the first chapter, made me laugh at some moments which I enjoyed as well

You need to add this to your Fall TBR. It's so cute and cozy. It's set in London where our cute vampire works at a coffee shop with her best friend who is a werewolf. Our FMC needs to find a husband in order to get her inheritance and who should she ask besides the man she's had a crush on months. I would love for this to have spin offs of other characters within this book. Thank you NetGalley and Avon Publishing for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Vampire fake dating/marriage plot? Count me in.

This was a nice easy read. The plot flowed well (there were a few time jumps which I’m not a huge fan of but not a big deal), the writing was good, and it was funny at times.

The main characters relationship developed well (although there were so many occasions where I was just begging them to use their words and actually talk to each other), and the two best friends had a great relationship too - I could potentially see a second book focusing on those two, which I’d definitely read!

Thanks Netgalley for the ARC

maybe theyre simply too british for my liking or i am just not feeling the chemsitry between pandora and viktor depsite how much i really want to :/

soft dnf’ing for now unfortunately

thank you so so much nonetheless to netgalley and avon books uk for this arc to review!

I actually really liked this. I felt like it was a little slow in parts. I wish the timeline was a little easier to follow because it was supposed to be a three month frame and it felt like everything happened in 2 weeks instead. I loved Lucy and I really hope we get a second book with her and Elias not gonna lie
Thank you Avon Books UK and NetGalley for letting me read a free copy of this book in exchange for a review

3.5/5 (rounded down)

I got my hands on this book and less than 36 hours later I had finished it. So, evidently, I had a good time.

Pandora and Victor are cute together and fake dating is always a fun dynamic for me. I really appreciated that Pandora has people outside of Victor who she cares about including her best friend Lucy, her brother Dante, and quite a few of her eccentric family members. Elias got on my nerves at the beginning, for slight spoiler-y reasons, but as the book progressed I started to genuinely like him. His and Lucy's dynamic is so fun and I'm kinda hoping for a sequel with the two of them.

Despite all that, I do have some qualms with this book. There were so many fun threads which I felt were underutilized. This caused the end of the book to fall flat for me. I also wish this book was dual perspective. This probably would've helped some of the threads be better used. Also I just wanted to be in Victor's head, because I think his internal world would be interesting.

Overall, My Big Fat Vampire Wedding was a fun experience and I'm grateful to NetGalley and Avon Books for giving me the opportunity to read it in exchange for a fair review.

A perfectly paced slow burn rom com, easy to read and completely addictive! Definitely will read more by this author

loved this romance of a vamp and a human and fake dating and really falling in love. loved her friends and that they helped each other live their dreams. loved that she adored romance books and loved her family. Hope that dante and luce both get books.

Thos book had me kicking my feet and screaming, it was wonderful and a joy to read.
Vampires, slow burn but not like slug slow, a good slow pace that has you wanting more.

This book had everything I adore, so it was basically a win from page one- vampires, fake dating, and a slow-burn romance? An absolute treat.

As someone with a big, chaotic family, I found the portrayal of a large, meddlesome big group both charming and painfully accurate. Some relatives were lovable, some were absolutely insufferable, and honestly? That tracks. The romance was flirty, fun, and well-paced, keeping me happily along for the ride. My only tiny gripe was the timeline hopping. It was very small but I did notice some time skipping and summaries to fill in the blanks, which isn’t my fave. But aside from that (and the real crime: a third act breakup)- This was a delightfully silly, cozy, and vampy fake dating adventure that left me happily entertained. Thank you Avon UK for the ARC!

I was invited by the publisher to review this book. Pandora is in a bind as she is a single vampire who must get married before the end of the year or risk losing her family's inheritance. Victor, a regular at the coffee shop that she works at, mentions about how much debt he is in and Pandora sees a solution - the two should get married, she can pay off his debt, and then divorce him immediately. Except there's one problem - Victor does not know that Pandora is a vampire, nor can he find out about it.

I enjoyed the family in this book - they were meddlesome, like many families, and it kept the feeling of the book lighter, and also set things up for a potential series. I also felt that Pandora and Victor had good chemistry, despite being drastically different. This is a good book for an escape.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book is just as goofy as the title sounds! It is the perfect cheesy romance with vampires in it. If you liked Bride by Ali Hazelwood but wanted it to be a little less series, you’ll eat this book up.

It has a little bit of everything f you want in this genre: arranged marriage, marriage of convenience, fake dating, drama galore, and a few tropes that I won’t be getting into detail about because of spoilers, but just know you love them.

It almost felt like what would happen if the family in Schitt’s Creek would do if they were vampires involved in an arranged marriage plan to save their fortune.

Just a heads up: when you finish this one, you’ll absolutely want to read a second book in this series immediately!

Thank you very much to Avon Books UK, Jessica Gadziala, and NetGalley for an ARC of this book. All opinions are my own and are not influenced by the manner in which I received it.

ARC REVIEW!!
3.5⭐️

This book was very cute and fun I loved the amount of characters there were Pandoras entire family was very entertaining it made for a fun read! The wedding and convincing her family of their relationship was such a big part of this book I do feel like it took away from the actual connection of Pandora and Victor I wish we got to see more moments of them just being together building their relationship. I enjoyed the last 10% the most that’s when you could really see that they did love each other!! Also I NEED an Elias and Lucy book their banter and sexual tension was everything I am invested in them!
Thank you NetGalley and Avon Book UK for the arc!!