The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The title “How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager” is written at the top in cream caps. “Bite” and “Neighbor” are written larger than the rest. Upper centre left, the name of the series “Guides for Dating Vampires” is written. “Guides for Dating” is in small white caps, and “Vampires” is written in larger red caps. The author’s name “D. N. Bryn” is written at the bottom in larger white caps. The background shows art of two men sitting on purple couch. The man on the left has mid length black hair, a long sleeved black shirt, fingerless gloves and black ripped jeans. He is holding the leg of the man on the right and making a motion to bite it. The man on the right has shorter brown hair, a lighter black t-shirt and black pants. Behind them, a brick wall with a purple poster, a crucifix necklace, and a shelf with books on. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Violence
• Murder
• Blood
• Non-Consensual Biting
• Non-Consensual Blood-Sucking
• Medical Experimentation
• Sexual Content

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Summary:

Vincent Barnes has suffered four years as a vampire, and they’ve been the most miserable years of his pathetic life. Too poor for black market blood, he feeds from sleeping humans to survive. He tries to never intrude on the same prey twice, but after a single delicious taste of a long-lost childhood neighbor, he can’t help returning for seconds.

Wesley Garcia has been waking up with fang marks. Lucky for him, he needs a vampire—to use as bait. He’s certain Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceutical killed his mother, but to gain access to their covert research labs, he has to bring them a bloodsucker for their experiments.

Step one, a dramatic offer: Stay, and you can bite me.

Vincent leaps at the chance to gobble Wesley up.

Wes’s plan is perfect. He’ll befriend the vampire, then trick him into coming to the lab. No fighting, no fuss. But Vincent is more than Wesley has bargained for: sweet and shy, with intoxicating fangs that awaken new desires in Wes. As the two bond, Vincent believes he might have finally found someone worth putting his trust in… and Wes fears neither of them will survive the betrayal he has planned.

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Notes:

This is the first book in the Guides for Dating Vampires series.

According to the author’s website, which you can find here, the only sex scene in the story is fade to black. But there is a free extended edition, plus a bonus scene, available through Bryn’s newsletter.

There is an audiobook.

There is a Kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

Comment from the author:

Vincent has had chronic depression and fatigue on and off for much of his life, and though he doesn’t experience it directly much during the book, it’s had a massive effect on how he views the world and himself.

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