TITLE: Aubrey Wants to Die
AUTHOR: Pip Knight
PUBLISHER: Hanover Square Press
PUBLISHING DATE: March 3, 2026
PAGES: 368
SOURCE: ARC
FROM GOODREADS: Love is hard. Being undead is harder ... Dolly Alderton meets True Blood in this dark, funny hell of a story
Aubrey is not what she seems. She's young, beautiful, romantic, obsessive and ... a vampire. All she wants is to be human again, and failing that, she wants to die. But the problem is, she can't. Not by stake through the heart or holy water or crucifix or garlic or fire. And she'd know, she's tried every method ... Twice.
So she's stuck here on this earth, all alone. Even the vampire who made her this way — an aristocratic douchebag called Oscar — has abandoned her.
But everything changes when one fateful night, she meets Jonathan. He's everything Aubrey's ever dreamed of, and what's more, he's her soulmate. Her Bella—Edward story. For the first time in 150 years, she has a reason to hope — eternal life might be bearable after all. So when Jonathan unexpectedly breaks up with her, she'll do anything to get him back.
But that's the exact moment Oscar swoops back into her life. And he has other plans for her. Soon, she's thrown into a world of glamour, glitter, blood and hedonism, a world that has her questioning everything she knows to be true—about life, but also about herself. A world where nothing is simple ... And no—one is safe, either.
Aubrey was turned 150 years ago and immediately afterwards, her maker split. This left her to figure out a lot on her own. After seeing another vampire kill a young buy while feeding, Aubrey refused to feed on humans, so she has lived on blood bank blood ever since. Because of this, she never reached her full vampire potential and after 150 years, is getting tired of her boring life where she has to move every 5-10 years and start over because doesn't age and can't tell the people around her, she is a vampire.
She is tired of living this way and has tried to kill herself in the past, just to find out all the things she believed killed vampires isn't working.
Fast forward and Aubrey has finally fallen in love with a man named Jonathan. She is happier than she has ever been but is trying a bit too hard so Jonathan dumps her. She enlists her only two friends to try to win him back but about that time, her maker Oscar walks back into her life. She is very angry with him for leaving her helpless all those years ago but gets stuck spending time with him because there is a new group of Vampire Hunters trying to prove vampires really exist and Oscar fears that Aubrey, with her lack of skill and knowledge, may lead to their downfall.
This book was so much fun. Don't get me wrong, Aubrey is a hot mess, but I loved her as a character, and it was nice to see someone trying to navigate their way through life and who hasn't been sold on the vampire lifestyle even though she herself is one. I found myself really rooting for her and Jonathan...until I wasn't. And Oscar is a jerk. He is mean to Aubrey a lot of the time and definitely has his own agenda so of course, I loved him as well. I feel this book does lean heavily into its True Blood comparison (one of my favorite book series) and if you are familiar, think Eric more than Bill.
This book was very unpredictable, and I loved how the ending played out. I also feel it would appeal to a lot of people as it does seem to encompass elements of a lot of different genres. Although everything basically wraps up in the end, there is a hint that it could continue so I really hope a sequel is in the works. I really do need more Aubrey and Oscar too!
MY RATING: 5 PAWS
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