Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where you choose a random book from your Goodreads TBR and show it off. Budget Tales Book Blog hosts this meme. This week, I’m spotlighting The Book of Blood and Roses by Annie Summerlee. Let’s check it out!
Title: The Book of Blood and Roses
Author: Annie Summerlee
Page Length: 368
Pub. Date: Jan. 13, 2026
Publisher: Del Rey
Synopsis: In book one of a seductive sapphic paranormal fantasy, a vampire hunter goes undercover at a mysterious university and falls in love with her roommate, an alluring vampire.
“Then her red eyes are on mine, gentle, deadly. She takes her time kissing my neck. I pull her closer and say: Bite me.”
In the mists of the Scottish Highlands is a university where vampire students study alongside humans.
Rebecca Charity is a vampire hunter undercover at the university, searching for the mysterious Book of Blood and Roses, a lost compendium of ways to kill vampires. If she finds it, she’ll be one step closer to avenging her parents, who were slain by those creatures of the night.
But when Rebecca arrives, she finds something unexpected: a coffin. Her new roommate is Aliz Astra, scion of one of the most powerful vampire families… and the most beautiful woman Rebecca has ever met.
The maddeningly gorgeous Aliz is everything that Rebecca has always hated, but also everything she ever wanted, and now Rebecca doesn’t know if she wants to kiss or kill her.
When Aliz rescues her from a vampire attack one moonlit night, she accidentally makes Rebecca her familiar. Now, they must work together to break the curse, but as they get closer to solving the mystery, Rebecca and Aliz get closer, too.
But can a vampire hunter ever fall in love with a vampire?
Are you excited for The Book of Blood and Roses? What other books are on your radar?
That does sound like an interesting read. I love the cover!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/goodreads-monday-tbr-monday-add-your-links-in-the-comments-section-for-all-to-see-the-bookshop-below-by-georgia-summers/