A review by nerfherder86
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks

5.0

I loved this book! Very funny, in an odd-peculiar characters sort of way. Narrated by Nina, a 15 year old who has been a vampire since 1973 and who writes thrilling vampire adventure stories for a living--but of course they're fiction, because no one would believe there really are vampires, nor would they believe how boring and uneventful a real vampire's life is. Nina and her fellow vamps are misfits, with no super strength or superpowers; they live like hermits because they drop into a coma immediately at sunset and even at night have to wear sunglasses against headlight glare; they're "reformed"--they survive on guinea pig blood and have to take supplements to fend off nausea. They're *so* not the vampires of story and movie. They go to a Support Group meeting every week, they've got so many hangups! But their sheltered existence is shattered when one of their number is found staked to death in his own coffin (he was always rather flamboyant and oldfashioned, having been "fanged" hundreds of years ago; today's vampire sleeps in the basement or in a vault). Thus begins the oddest cross-country road trip, full of slapstick misadventure and characters like an overenthusiastic teenage werewolf and the nasty men who stage werewolf fights. I really really liked this lighthearted Down Under (it's set in Australia) take on vampires.