My Roommate Is a Vampire

With eviction looming, starving artist Cassie Greenberg is desperate to find a cheap place to live. When she comes across an advertisement for a room in a cute apartment in Chicago at a decent price, she knows there must be a catch. Her new roommate, Frederick J. Fitzwilliam, is odd, to say the least. Dressed as though he just walked off the cover of a Regency-era erotica novel, he does his business at night, sleeps during the day, and has a shockingly clean kitchen. As it turns out, Cassie’s new roommate is a vampire, and he has a proposition she can’t resist. Levine’s debut novel is fun and quirky, a steamy meet-cute between a 30-something woman and a 300-year-old vampire. Gilli Messer is wonderful as the effervescent yet suspicious Cassie while also ably performing the husky-voiced, old-school vampire Frederick. While listeners may roll their eyes at the novel’s outlandish campiness, Levine’s depiction of Cassie and Frederick navigating their budding romance in the 21st century is a delight.