Beth Fantaskey was raised and still lives in rural Pennsylvania, a place that features prominently in her books. (There’s nothing unusual about getting stuck in Amish buggy “traffic” where she lives.) Fantaskey has been a burger-slinger at a diner called “Diffy’s,” a teenage tax collector, a journalist, and now a part-time professor at Susquehanna University.
Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side is a fun piece of brain candy for teen girls. Imagine the “girl finds out she’s a long-lost princess” fantasy combined with the “girl finds out she’s the destined true love of a hot vampire guy” fantasy, and you’ve pretty much got the gist. I enjoyed the novel while reading it, but I think I’d have liked it better when I was in the target audience, and there were some aspects that really troubled me.
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Agree! And a perfect ending, too.
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