Hunger for you is a paranormal f/f romance featuring a mysterious vampire and the girl she’s head over heels for. Basically, it was everything I should have loved but alas, I didn’t. I originally didn’t finish and wasn’t giving feedback but after much consideration I gave it another try and managed to complete it.

We will start with the positive: I loved the plot and storyline was so intriguing, I liked how badass Amelia was regardless of being the only human, she did not back down. I admired her spirit and, I wouldn’t say no to a sequel.

However, Byron bored me to tears. I was just not here for her character and this really soured the romance for me. In the end I skimmed most of their romantic scenes just to get to the action! I did liked the side characters especially Alexis and Katie. Here’s hoping they all get books. Maybe I’ll enjoy them more.

Overall; if you’re looking for a romantic/action packed read, then this is the book for you. I myself, have turned off romance so maybe that contributed to my distaste.

This book was so engaging I spent an entire afternoon reading it. The lead characters had fantastic chemistry, the sex scenes were sizzling hot, the supporting characters were equally interesting and the battle of the clans storyline was gripping. My only negative comment is that the story started rather abruptly six months after the two leads had already met - the meeting scene was only revealed towards the end and even so it was only a brief look into how they met. A more linear, chronological account might have improved the story. Having said that I look forward to reading the rest of the series and I hope the author gives Alexis and Katie their own story.

This was a bit of a mess - but i read it all. This is the continuation of the short story "Dapper" and is Frame's take on vampires. I'll give her credit for mixing stuff up a bit and not following all the standard vampire tropes (there are still some) but I still found the story lacking in direction and action.

Solid 3.5 stars.

Started off a little slow for me, I struggled to start it several times, but once I did, I enjoyed it. A lot of excitement and twists that have me eagerly awaiting the next in the series.

DNF
I requested this book in error, and so still was prepared to review it. I couldn't get into this book, not even trying to make myself finish it.
This is not a strike against the author, just that my lack of interest in the subject matter.

I loved reading it! This paranormal romance cries out for at least a sequel, if not a series. A family mystery of one protagonist remains to be solved. And the book is full of promising future protagonists who deserve their own happily ever after.

This was an exceptional book. This completely took me off guard. Now I love paranormal books but this one was one of the best, if not the best I have read in a very long time.

It had a bit of everything. Yes, the obvious but also intrigue, mystery, history and a lot of important secondary characters that just enhanced the story. It is really well written and had me guessing til the end. I really really hope Frame has a follow up on the cards because there is no way she could end it where she did. It set me up to think of another incredible story. Can the good guys really win the day. Can the bad guy be converted?

It's set in London in my home town in the present day. And it's just the way I remember it.

If you want something different that will hold your attention then give this book ago. I highly recommend it and it is worth more than 5 stars. Enjoy!

*ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley*

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I would like to apologise for not posting reviews but I have been in hospital for the last 8 weeks trying to save my leg. The hospital wi-fi was not very good, but I am going to catch up on all the books I have read in the next few days as I am unable to walk . I can not apologise enough Jane Shambler

I received an ARC copy of this book from the Publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the first book I have read by this author. Supernatural is not my usual genre to read but am I pleased that I chose this one. I had read that this author was great but I was still sitting on the fence.

Wow … just Wow. This book had me hooked from the very beginning. What’s not to love? The book was well written and paced, interesting characters in Amelia & Byron, the author done some sold research. I would highly recommend anyone to read this book. I sat up most of the night to finish reading it. One more chapter turned into one more and before I knew it I had finished the book.

I look forward to reading more from Jenny Frame.

5 STARS

This was an amazing story, I loved the outside the box take on vampires. The romance was sweet and sexy. The chemistry was hot, and the love was real, and I look forward to reading more.

href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39358844-hunger-for-you" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Hunger for You" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1521855181m/39358844.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39358844-hunger-for-you">Hunger for You</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8585317.Jenny_Frame">Jenny Frame</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2359632597">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
I rec'd an ARC from NetGallley/Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.<br />A vampire romance that has angst, sex and a compelling storyline with leads Amelia and Byron (from "Dapper"). Nicely fleshed out characters that didn't quite follow the vampire norm making Ms. Frame's take on the genre interesting for me. Dare I hope this develops into a series?<br />I recommend this book with 4 stars.
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Hunger For You by Jenny Frame is a wonderful paranormal tale about love conquering the darkest part of a person’s soul. Byron Debrek is the head of the oldest vampire clan in the world and the strongest vampire in existence. She falls for Amelia Honey who embodies all that is kind, innocent and nurturing. I can’t go further than that, as it would be one spoiler after another.

The story moves between Byron’s and Amelia’s point of view so I felt like I got to know them very well. The writing is solid and this book felt like a highly romanticized take on a vampire love story. Byron is all about control, brooding, and gallantry. She is definitely the picture perfect vampire.

The plot kept me on my toes. That isn’t to say that there weren’t things that I didn’t see coming. However, everything was revealed at the perfect time and in a fresh way.

The end of the book is set up so that this is the first in what I hope will at least be a three book series.

My only qualm with the book was that there were times when I felt like I was reading the same passages over again. It was as if exposition from the beginning of the book was cut and pasted into the second half of the book. It was as if the author wanted to make sure the reader was still following along. This is the only reason that I did not give the book a five star rating.

This was a very good read and I definitely recommend it.

I was provided with an ARC of this book via Netgalley from Bold Stokes Books in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I absolutely love Jenny Frame as an author. I have read, and will read anything she writes. I have loved almost everything she has written, but this one is not my favorite. I am also a fan of paranormal romance, but this one just didn't do it for me. I wouldn't say this isn't a good book, it just didn't deliver. I will say I may have gone into this one with too high of expectations. I was excited she had written a vampire book and may have set myself up for failure. Expecting too much.

When I first began the book I debated on skipping this one. The beginning was a bit rough for me. I remember thinking this may be my first Frame book that I really do not like. I made myself continue and after you get through the beginning it gets better. Maybe around 40% or so… I really liked Amelia but Byron was not my favorite. By the end I thought it had recovered somewhat but it still wasn't on my Frame favorites list. Kind of hope book 2 is Alexis and Katie… I would read that book!

I was cautiously optimistic about HUNGER FOR YOU, as I haven't had great luck with Frame's books in the past but was super excited for lesbian vampires. I'm disappointed but not terribly surprised that I ended up unable to finish and DNF'd at 22%.
The central issue I have with the story is that it starts six months into the relationship and I'm completely unsure why the two heroines fell in love. I read in another review that there's a prequel novella, and perhaps if I had read that, my opinion would be different.
The book starts with the two of them in Amelia's uncle's tailor shop, where she works and where Byron has been shopping for decades. They're about to go on a vacation to Italy, which is where Byron intends to finally tell Amelia that Byron's a vampire. This is all fine... if it was like 30% into the book. As it stands, I was confused where the plot was hiding, where the chemistry was, etc. The book picks up at around 10% of the way in, with the introduction of a rival vampire clan, but the half of the narrative that follows the central couple plods along awkwardly.
I'm sure the book improves after the point that I stopped reading, but I gave a month of my reading life to trying to get through this and at some point, you have to throw in the metaphorical towel. I will say that it reads like a lot of the vampire romance that came out after Twilight, just chock full of queer women. If that sounds like something you'd like to read, you may want to check this out. I have no complaints about the sex, the representation I read, etc. It's just that the storytelling itself didn't work for me.

I love all of Jenny Frame’s books and this is no exception. The book has a romantic paranormal theme. It has been many months since I have read a book in this category so I was looking forward to it. From the way the book is listed, I believe this is part of a new series entitled “Amelia and Byron”.

Byron Debrek is the “Principe” or head of an ancient vampire dynasty. She is single and not looking for love - that is until she meets Amelia Honey. Amelia is a tailor who lives with her two uncles. Byron comes into her shop and is drawn to Amelia. She is also attracted to him and they begin to date. Of course, Amelia does not know that Byron is a vampire. This book deals with how their romance develops, how Amelia learns about Byron being a vampire, and how it affects their relationship.

We are introduced to many characters in this book. They fall into the categories of vampires, humans, or witches. I look forward to the next book to see which characters Ms. Frame will develop further.

I felt that the plot was very smooth and flowed quickly. After the first chapter I was hooked and did not want to stop reading. Unfortunately, I will have to wait and hope that Ms. Frame adds to the series soon.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who likes paranormal fiction. It is also a good romance.

If someone has not tried a paranormal book, this might be a good one to try. I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.

I was given this ARC in return for a fair and honest review.

I like a lesfic vampire tale, and I really enjoyed this one. Good chemistry between the leads Byron and Amelia, a fantastic supporting cast and wonderful ‘baddie’ in Victorija. Lots of sex scenes in this book, not particularly vanilla, so be aware. A good place to end the story for this book, but plenty left to tell. Can’t wait for the next one!

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 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.