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korra_oh's review
5.0
I read this book, what feels like, a decade ago and LOVED it. Coming from the classic YA theme with vampires and zombies and romance and "forget who you are for love," I thought this book was a creative and well done reimagining of what real life as a vampire might be like. The characters are colorful in their joint sickliness and the writer does a great job of showing us that the world created has more to it without taking away from the story.
stacyschuttler's review
3.0
Good book...It became a bit slow towards the end and then there were so many things going on at once that you really needed to stay alert. I don't think that the characters were introduced all that well at the beginning. There were many vampires who were introduced...the next few chapters focused on three characters and then then it was hard to remember who was who.
vikingwolf's review against another edition
3.0
Nina was 15 when she became a vampire and is part of the Reformed Vampire Support Group that meet every week. They are not strong, they are always sick and watching TV, they have no fun and they breed guinea pigs to eat. So when one of their group is murdered by a vampire slayer, everyone panics that their addresses are now known to the killer. Can the most useless group of vampire wimps find a way to track down the killer and save themselves? Add in illegal werewolf fights and bad guys with guns and you get an idea why these vampires should never be allowed to go out without a chaperone...
This was a good, light, fun read with a new take on vampires. They are not superhuman, not cool, have no real clue about the world they live in and everything they do gets messed up-cue all kinds of chaos. I liked the mix of characters as well-nice guy Dave, Nina's cranky human mother, the hapless vampire slayer, the Bela Lugosi wannabe, their all knowing pompous leader...It was amusing to see the group dynamics and I would hate to spend eternity going to support meetings with this bunch!
This was a good, light, fun read with a new take on vampires. They are not superhuman, not cool, have no real clue about the world they live in and everything they do gets messed up-cue all kinds of chaos. I liked the mix of characters as well-nice guy Dave, Nina's cranky human mother, the hapless vampire slayer, the Bela Lugosi wannabe, their all knowing pompous leader...It was amusing to see the group dynamics and I would hate to spend eternity going to support meetings with this bunch!
ghutter05's review
2.0
I liked the different take on vampirism, and how she didn't glorify it, but honestly, in the end, the rest of the plot was just kind of slow and uninspiring.
amberhayward's review
3.0
This was fine. I like the concept but I feel like there were too many characters; I don’t know that Gladys, George, and Bridget had enough to do to make them necessary and towards the end, I had trouble keeping track of what was going on as a lot happened when the narrator was asleep and sometimes we would get an info-dump chapter in addition to how it was revealed to her in real time and other times, I feel like we got a lot less info. Aside: did anyone else picture Dave as Neil Gaiman?
bookslucyking's review
5.0