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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
funny
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
These books are terrible. They're horribly cliched and fixated on goth aesthetics in a very immature way that I find delightful. The writing is not good. I also love them a lot.
Maybe it's been too long since I read the first book in this series, but it took me forever to get into this one. Finally about halfway through the story picked up some and I read the rest closer to my normal speed. Probably worth having since vampires are so popular, and this series is a little different from all of the romances because it sticks to some of the vampire classical myths. Not sure that this series has the staying power once the fad is through.
The second installment in the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. High school promises to be as bad as middle school for Vlad. He heads for Siberia with his uncle to have an ancient family friend train him in the use of his powers. He'd better learn quickly because he is being stalked back home by a slayer as well as a reporter for the school paper. A very cool series boys will love.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Welcome back to Stokerton, and Bathory High, home of Vladimir Tod! If you're here looking at this installment, then you likely either enjoyed the first book or are searching for more illogical things to poke gentle fun at.
Be warned, searchers with either objective - Heather Brewer has higher ambitions in this book. We get a vampire slayer, lurking ominously in the odd, incongruous 'villain perspective' interludes that readers may recall from the first book. We get tiresome high school politics, a school outcast with a morbid interest in the macabre called what else but 'Eddie Poe', Vladimir Tod's crush on a classmate growing (possibly) more serious. We get an illogically isolated Russian vampire community, where our daring author tries her hardest to insert some moral ambiguity.
The concepts all sorts of sway dizzily for a little while, like a child's too-high tower of building blocks, but they soon topple over, leaving us with exactly the same things as the first book. It's a very laudable effort, though.
Be warned, searchers with either objective - Heather Brewer has higher ambitions in this book. We get a vampire slayer, lurking ominously in the odd, incongruous 'villain perspective' interludes that readers may recall from the first book. We get tiresome high school politics, a school outcast with a morbid interest in the macabre called what else but 'Eddie Poe', Vladimir Tod's crush on a classmate growing (possibly) more serious. We get an illogically isolated Russian vampire community, where our daring author tries her hardest to insert some moral ambiguity.
The concepts all sorts of sway dizzily for a little while, like a child's too-high tower of building blocks, but they soon topple over, leaving us with exactly the same things as the first book. It's a very laudable effort, though.
Not quite as funny as the first book of the series, though still chock-full of references to vampire movies, books, and television shows.
It will be fine for my class library in the future because despite the creepiness of the cover, there is no questionable content.
*spoilers here*
Vlad is in ninth grade at Bathory High. He can't speak to the most beautiful girl at his school. His favorite teacher/uncle Otis is not around, but sending him letters and forcing him to work on mind reading and mind control. And his best friend/drudge Henry is becoming one of the popular kids, while Vlad is not. At least he has his new friend, Joss.
Note: Any reader that does not immediately recognize the slayer by his name has not had enough exposure to vampire media.
It will be fine for my class library in the future because despite the creepiness of the cover, there is no questionable content.
*spoilers here*
Vlad is in ninth grade at Bathory High. He can't speak to the most beautiful girl at his school. His favorite teacher/uncle Otis is not around, but sending him letters and forcing him to work on mind reading and mind control. And his best friend/drudge Henry is becoming one of the popular kids, while Vlad is not. At least he has his new friend, Joss.
Note: Any reader that does not immediately recognize the slayer by his name has not had enough exposure to vampire media.