Wow, this was a book I was so interested in reading that I'm not going to recommend to anyone. 

Lily Bane is a fat woman struggling with her body image, especially in comparison to her thin best friend and her fatphobic mother. When a handsome man offers to buy her a drink, she feels totally unworthy of his attention - and then he turns her into a vampire and her whole life goes off the rails.

Right off the bat, I wasn't meshing with this author's writing style. It feels very elder millennial - several sentences start with "FYI" or "Obvi," and it just feels forced.

But the whole thing feels stuck in the fat rep or body positivity of the early 2000s. Lily doesn't ever really learn to love her body for what it is - she really does end up seeing it through the lens of her love interest, a very boring vampire man who is a romance novelist, which I think is meant to be shorthand for the reader to understand he's ~good with women~ and ~in touch with his feelings~, neither of which are true. Even with the author's note at the beginning, I found the way that Lily thought and her mother talked about her body to be incredibly harmful. There's a weird moment where Lily realizes her fatphobia about herself has made her thin friend feel like she can't talk about things with her, because Lily always has a story about someone making her feel shitty about her body and so the friend's story pales in comparison, which really smacks of "tHiN pEoPlE fEeL bAd AbOuT tHeIr BoDiEs ToO!"

And Tristan is so unlikeable as a hero, too. As mentioned above, he's a romance novelist. This is really a way for the author to get you to assume he empathizes with women and gets the struggle of being a woman in the kyriarchy without having to do any work to prove that. It doesn't work! Tristan is stuck in the 1600s (like, literally at one point a former love interest of his tells Lily that he couldn't wrap his mind around her independence as a woman in the 1800s which is! wild!) and simultaneously refuses to tell Lily anything that would keep her safe and then berates her for not recognizing threats.

He changed Lily by accident:

he was like... telepathically asking her if she wanted to be bitten, not knowing she'd already nipped him and had a bit of his blood? And Lily, for reasons that aren't satisfyingly explained, cannot have her brain gone through by a vampire, so when she's saying yes, it's to his offer to see her again and not to be a vampire. I HATE this non-consensual turning! And it's really compounded by his repeated memory-wipings of people they run into, even after Lily's made clear what a violation she thinks that is. He memory wipes her best friend! That's just gross.

Anyways, this was a disappointment from start to finish. I don't recommend it, and I think it's probably actively harmful. YMMV.

Thank you Sourcebooks and NetGalley for the ARC.