The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story

Written by Sonia Hartl

Narrated by Justis Bolding

Getting over Your Vampire Ex is as Easy as Killing Him and Stealing His Girlfriend

 

Holly Liddell has been stuck with crimped hair since 1987 when she agreed to let her boyfriend, Elton, turn her into a vampire. But when he ditches her at a gas station a few decades into their eternity together, she realizes that being young forever actually means working graveyard shifts at Taco Bell, sleeping in seedy motels, and being supernaturally compelled to follow your ex from town to town—at least until Holly meets Elton’s other exes.

 

It seems that Holly isn’t the only girl Elton seduced into this wretched existence. He turned Ida in 1921, then Rose in 1954, and he abandoned them both before Holly was even born. Now Rose and Ida want to kill him before he can trick another girl into eternal adolescence, and they’ll need Holly’s help to do it. And once Holly starts falling for Elton’s vulnerable new conquest, Parker, she’ll do anything to save her.

 

To kill Elton for good, Holly and her friends will have to dig up their pasts, rob a bank, and reconcile with the people they’ve hurt in their search for eternal love. And to win the girl, Holly will have to convince Parker that she’s more than just Elton’s crazy ex—even though she is trying to kill him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705040539

Sonia Hartl

Sonia Hartl is the author of YA and adult romance. Her books have been featured in PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Vulture, Book Riot, and Life Savvy, among other publications, received a starred review from BookPage, and earned nominations for the Georgia Peach Book Award, YALSA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, ALA's Rise: A Feminist Book Project List, and ALA's Rainbow Booklist, and was named an Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Young Adult. When she's not writing she enjoys board games with her family, attempting to keep her garden alive, or looking up craft projects she'll never get around to completing on Pinterest.

[alexandrya magee · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

if you’re looking for a ya loosely vampire book. this could be for you

[emmy rose · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

a group of queers kill their toxic ex. and they're also vampires. this book has everything! READ IT!

[K Benn · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A solid 4 stars! I really enjoyed the friendship between all the women and the different takes on vampire lore (I especially liked the idea that your emotional development is forever stuck at the age you're turned.) The performance of the audiobook was wonderful and I appreciate narrators of YA who can actually sound like teenagers. An enjoyable listen!

[Xiomy Santiago · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

While the premise for this book sounds fascinating it was the complete opposite. The start did intrigue me but as the story developed there were a few things that were inconclusive and others made no sense. This book is also heavy on dialogue tags and I could have cared less for any of the characters. Also, how is this pitched as YA this definitely had a risqué scene and this could easily fit a NA category. Unfortunately, this book was not memorable as I can't even recall the names of the characters which is sad since I went in with high expectations.

[candiace · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really liked this ! Great revenge story about friendship and forgiveness.

[clrichm · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A solid vampire book! I liked that the whole "wish I hadn't been turned" vibe that you get from most vampire novels was less dark angst and more simmering resentment and irritation. I also appreciated that hunting was nearly a non-event, not something that was either all-consuming or a point of existential woe. I was actually surprised in one respect; I totally thought Parker was going to be revealed as a spy for Elton. I held my breath through the sex scene, since it wasn't stated whether she was wearing the locket throughout or if she took it off, and either way it would have been an opportunity for Parker to steal it. Her "I asked a minion" explanation about how she knew where Stacey lived was crepe paper thin, and the speed with which she fell for Holly seemed implausible. (Vampires get a pass on temporal matters.) When Parker's "betrayal" turned out to be a scheme, I didn't see it coming until it was actually happening.

On the whole, an enjoyable book.