A review by sarahloubooks
The Radleys by Matt Haig

4.0

This was definitely a fun read that I whipped through in no time at all. The Radley’s are for all intents and purposes your average suburban family, participating in their local community and living a rather boring and somewhat dispassionate marriage between Mum and Dad, Peter and Helen. However, underneath it all lies a dark secret that not even the families two children Clara and Rowan and aware of. The family are actually vampires, although the parents are now abstainers, eating only animal meat and have raised their unknowing children the same way as well. When an incident at a party means Peter and Helen can no longer hide the truth from their kids, and when a panicked Peter calls his estranged brother Will for help, things only go from bad to worse. This is fantastic imaginative storytelling, which really makes you root for the “bad guys” and feel a great deal of sympathy for blood suckers as they try to control their basic instincts.