Victory for Vampires: A Haven Ever After Novella

3.5 stars

The first book I finished in 2025 wasn't even on my TBR for January. Victory for Vampires is a novella in the Haven Ever After series. In this novella we are following Pietro & Alessandro who we met in passing in previous books and we are introduced to Valentina or at least I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've met her. Anyways according to the description on Goodreads this novella takes place after the events of book 4 but doesn't need to be read in any particular order. There will be some brief mentions of things that have happened in previous books but nothing major. As for this book I did like it but it's not a favorite that coveted spot belongs to Waltzing with Witches which is the 4th book in the series. There are going to be some minor spoilers for this book coming up so if you haven't read this one yet and you're wanting to then please skip this review. My first complaint about this book is how the 2 MMC refer to each other as brothers. We do learn that they aren't actually brothers, but they kept calling each other brother (at least in the first half of the book) and it just kind of irked me. It was also a bit repetitive and felt rushed. I did love the romance, but it took over the story and someone was introduced toward the end of the story and that felt like it came out of nowhere. I guess I would have to say that the sexy times is what kept me reading because I did really enjoy the 3 main characters together so much. If you are the type of person who wants their romance to be more plot and less smut (I hate that word) then this book might not be for you.