Uninvited by Amanda Marrone Simon Pulse, 2007 ISBN: 1416939784 Availabile: New Uninvited is a much darker story than the typical YA vampire fare. Jordan, a troubled teen, is being visited by her ex-boyfriend Michael, now a vampire, who waits outside her window every night begging her to invite him in. This isn’t a love story, […]
Category: YA books
Review: Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee
May 3, 2013Tanaquil was born in a fortress, to a powerful sorceress who rules the desert land. And it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. She’s a failure as a sorceress herself. Her mother’s magic leaks all over the castle making life one chaotic inconvenience. Speaking of which, she’s little more than an inconvenience herself, unable […]
Mirrorstone,2008 ISBN: 9780786950287 Available: New In Sucks to Be Me, Mina is the teenaged human daughter of a pair of vampires, who have hidden her existence. Once she’s discovered, the regional vampire council is adamant that Mina decide if she wants to be turned into a vampire. As if the stress of attending “vampire class” […]
Review: Ghost Heart by Yvonne Navarro and Weston Ochse
April 29, 2013What to say about Ghost Heart? It’s so hard to review a book that’s genuinely more of an experience than a read. It’s the story of Matt, a boy facing the break up of his parents and watching his friend’s ghostly guardian spirit fade as she grows up, as he tries desperately to stop time […]
Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece
April 24, 2013First 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 […]