What do you get when you cross PNR with HR with a fairytale retelling? Pure awesomeness, that's what. 
 This darling book really turned Cinderella on its head. Our prince is a vampire. Our Cinderella is servant named Arabelle. Our glass slipper is a dagger. And best of all, our first meeting between our prince and Cinderella is an assignation attempt. Yum. 
 Arabelle is a servant working for an absolute nightmare of a noble woman and her two horrible daughters. While the sisters do everything they can to catch the prince's attention, Arabelle is the Black Lily, the leader of an underground resistance against the royal family and pretty much all vampires. After extensive planning, Arabelle manages to attend a ball thrown by the royal family for Prince Marius, who is looking for a new blood concubine. Apparently, vampires can only drink from one another to a certain extent. They eventually need human blood. So, while he has an upcoming arranged marriage to the last vampire princess that isn't of his line, he also needs someone to feed on/from. When Marius sees Arabelle from across the room, he is naturally smitten. When she lures him away to privacy she realizes that despite her hate of vampires, she attracted to him too. This doesn't change her mission, though. She is determined to go through with the assignation. Unfortunately (for her at least), her attempt on his life is just that. The rest of the book is about the two of them coming to terms with their feelings. Arabelle learns that she shouldn't judge all vampires based on the evil of a few of them. Marius learns to pull his head out of his ass and take a look around at his people and their plight. Plus, you know, sexy times. 
 Arabelle was a strong character but also a bit annoying. She held her prejudices way too long in my opinion. I was at 50% on my kindle and she still couldn't seem to figure out that you should judge an entire people on the actions of a few of them. Marius was far more understanding. Almost to a fault. The turn around in their relationship seemed to come out of nowhere, but I didn't even care. In fact, there were a lot of things that might bother some that I just didn't mind. I'm willing to overlook a lot for a book that is just plain fun. 
 My only issue throughout the book was that it read like YA. Well, YA with sex. I'm one of those weird people that if a detailed enough picture is on the cover, I usually picture the character that way. I couldn't really reconcile that with this book. They sounded more like they were about 18-19 (yes, I know Marius was one hundred, but that didn't matter). It read like an HR/PNR, but the characters came off as really young and immature. Once again, not a bad thing in and of itself, just not what I was expecting. 
 If these books are your kinda thing, I totally recommend it.