4 stars! 
 Velvet tells the story of Caitlin Holte, a 16 years old girl, who just recently lost her mother to cancer. 
 Being an orphan and underaged, Caitlin is forced to move in to her Aunt's house, in Stony Creek, a very small town. 
 Caitlin has a strong personality and she's very angry and is grieving. Besides, she is is NOT Happy with the moving... so she's not the most friendly person to be around. 
 In her new school, Caitlin meets a boy - Adrian de La Mara - the Handsome, Hot boy every girl in school drools about and wants to date. But, Caitlin doesn't share this reaction to him, she has a view of her own: 
 "He wore a cowl-neck sweater and expensive jeans (...) The charcoal sweater had to be cashmere it looked soft as butter (...) There was some sort of hemp bracelet on his left wrist and an antique silver ring on his hand. It was tasteful, masculine, and confident. 
 Trish was right--he was totally gay." 
 Adrian starts paying attention and being nice to Caitlin... giving her a ride in his Harley, everyday, to school and home. He's smart, nice and interesting ... and, soon, they become friends. 
 But Adrian has a secret he must tell Caitlin... 
 He's a 
 Vampire 
 and his dad is a 
 Demon 
 and is after Caitlin. 
 "So," I said slowly. "You're immortal. Your dad's a demon. You absorb emotions as energy. You can do freaky things with your eyes and make people forget stuff, your brother was stored digitally in hell, and for some grand, mysterious reason, I am being intentionally informed about your secret vampire society." 
 As Adrian explains... Caitlin understands that she's in Real Danger. If Adrian's father - The Demon - gets his way with her... she'll 
 Die! 
 The Vampire Council wants to stop the Demon... so Adrian was given the task to keep Caitlin safe... he's her 
 Bodyguard 
 and must keep close to her and keep an eye on her at all times... 
 "Consider me your personal shadow from here on out." 
 So... For her safety, they'll have to be together most of the time... and the only way they'll be able to do that without people interfering, is to pretend to be in a Relationship ... 
 "Being around you, being alone with you, is vital to your safety. We had to let you in on it, because sooner or later you would've realized I was not who I said I was, or around you for the reasons you thought". 
 "I get 'permission' to be around you, to appear to be in love with you, but I'm forbidden from growing attached. And the penalties for disobedience are high." 
 So, Caitlin and Adrian start a 
 Fake Relationship 
 ... BUT Caitlin Must Remember that it's Not Real and she mustn't Fall for him... so she establishes RULES: 
 Rule #1 - "... you're not allowed to fall in love with me." 
 Rule #2 - "...if we're gonna be smoochy or huggy or whatever, there should be a formula. (...) X number of displays of public affection per week, multiplied by holidays and special occasions, divided by well-timed lovers spats and whatnot. We could make a chore chart." 
 Rule #3 - "Don't lie to me. This is my life, and it's very weird right now, and I need you to promise that you won't lie to me." 
 But... as time passes, Caitlin gets to spend more time with Adrian, gets to know him better and gets to know his family ... he makes her Smile, have Fun and Laugh - something she hasn't done in a long time - and she finds herself really wishing for their relationship to be able to be true. 
 "This would be so much easier if he were unattractive, or boring, or dumb. But he wasn't. He was incredible". 
 "I was an assignment to him. Maybe we were actually friends, too, but we certainly weren't anything more. That shouldn't bother me--I tried to convince myself that it didn't bother me. But on some level, it did". 
 Eventually... Caitlin's Feelings for Adrian start Growing ... but her Feelings are strictly Forbidden and are Doomed to Never bear fruit... since when it all ends, when the Demon is caught and Caitlin is safe... she'll be forced to Forget all about Vampires ... and Adrian! 
 "Someday soon I wouldn't be a target anymore, and then he and I would have to break off our fake relationship--which had never felt all that fake to begin with--and then my memory would get wiped and I wouldn't remember that I'd ever felt anything about him at all". 
 But... We Can't Control or Choose Who we Love... so... 
 What can Caitlin do when she finds herself more and more Deeply in Love with this Vampire boy? Will her feelings ever be returned? Will she lose her memories and forget all about him? Will she be safe from the Demon's grip? 
 Do Read the book to find out :) 
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 I enjoyed this book! It was Inspired by Twilight but it is, in my opinion, very different from it and quite better. 
 I liked the different take on vampires... that they're not made, they're born... and how it was all explained to us. 
 Also, the indifference that Adrian's family felt to the world and humans felt realistic to me... if you were immortal and forbidden from forming any kind of relationship with humans, I really think you'd grow cold and bored with the world and all things in it. 
 I liked that Caitlin had a strong personality and that she didn't fall madly in love with Adrian upon seeing him for the first time... she was childish and a brat to her aunt and Adrian, for a while there in the book... but fortunately, she quickly came to her senses. 
 I liked Adrian also... But my favorite character was Lucian - An innocent child vampire that has lived for 10 years in Hell surrounded by Demons - it was original ... he was a wild, weird child, but a really sweet one ... I really liked him :) 
 The story continues on book #2 of the series - Cashmere - that should be published this year (but we don't know what day, yet!), which I will probably read, since I'm curious to know what will happen.