First Second Books, 2008 ISBN: 1596431075 Available: New Life Sucks is an unusual, funny, and unglamourous take on the vampire tale. Dave Miller is a young man whose life takes a dramatic change when he applies for a night job at a convenience store. The vampire owner turns him, sealing Dave’s fate to forever be […]
Review: Misguided Angel by Melissa de la Cruz
April 23, 2013Like with Bloody Valentine I found Misguided Angel far more interesting when it focused on someone other than Jack and Schuyler. It opens with them, though, so I will as well. Jack and Schuyler have discovered that the Countess’s protection is more like jail and plan to escape. In the process (that is by the […]
Night Road by A.M. Jenkins
April 17, 2013HarperTeen, 2008 ISBN:9780060546045 Available: New Night Road tells the tale of Cole, a hemovore (don’t call him a vampire). Hemovores drink blood from humans, referred to as omnis. Cole is summoned to help Gordon, a young college student accidentally turned into a hemovore, adjust to his new unlife. While Cole and his friend Sandor teach […]
Review: Wolf Pact by Melissa de la Cruz
April 12, 2013Bliss is my favorite character in Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series, so a novel starring Bliss and werewolves? Yes please! While the Blue Bloods books are about teens facing a series of really big issues (serial killers, redemption, true evil) Wolf Pact covers different territory. The wolves are hell creatures, raised to be […]
Suck it Up By Brian Meehl
April 10, 2013Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2008 ISBN-10: 0385733003 Available: New and Used Morning McCobb is coming out of the coffin. The unassuming vampire has been chosen as the poster child for the International Vampire League, an organization of vampires who seek to coexist peacefully with humans. With the help of human publicist Penny Dredful and […]
Review: Bloody Valentine by Melissa de la Cruz
April 9, 2013Bloody Valentine isn’t a full book in the Blue Bloods series. It’s a side book, fan service and an effort to fill in some empty blanks in the story. There are three novelettes between these covers. Just Another Night in Suck City deals with Oliver, his struggle to fight both the bond between he and […]
Review: The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz
April 5, 2013The van Alen legacy is easy: find the gates to the underworld and protect them so Lucifer can’t escape. Of course since the attack in Rio, where Lucifer tricked Lawrence van Alen into killing an innocent and thus releasing Leviathan (before Lucifer killed Lawrence) finding and protecting the gates is something Schuyler van Alen is […]
VAMPS by Nancy A. Collins
April 3, 2013Harper Teen, 2008 ISBN: 0061349178 Available: New and Used VAMPS is book one in a series about the vampire teens of Bathory Academy, a prestigious night school for the richest and most powerful members of the vampire race. The first book introduces the characters and sets up the overall plot arc but doesn’t have much […]
Secrets, secrets and more secrets come out in this third installment of the Blue Bloods series. Charles Force, leader of the Blue Bloods and spurned soul mate of Schuyler van Allen’s mother has taken legal custody of her from her grandfather, Lawrence van Allen. This means Schuyler now lives with her secret one true love […]
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March 28, 2013Disclaimer: I haven’t read these books, I just found them. Viewer discretion is advised. Turned (Vampire Journals #1) by Morgan Rice In TURNED (Book #1 of the Vampire Journals series), 18 year old Caitlin Paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom […]