The Jades
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Publisher Description
Four Third Culture girls meet in Taiwan, which is their home for at least the next year. Jeannie is a spontaneous, spunky cellist from Australia; Daphne, a reserved, but very competitive daughter of a diplomat who has a horrid sense of direction; Andrea, an adopted Taiwanese girl, who speaks with a Texan accent and likes her new pierced tongue; and Elizabeth, or Lizzie, who has always lived in Taiwan, but looks like she is from Scandinavia. Adventures follow them, along with a few terrifying moments.
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Swedish author Lindqvist's debut, a horror novel, offers few twists that won't already be familiar to readers of modern vampire fiction. Oskar, a much bullied 12-year-old schoolboy living in a Stockholm suburb, notices that his next-door neighbor, Eli, has some peculiar traits: Eli only comes out at night, smells like death warmed over and is of ambiguous gender. Eventually, Eli reveals he's a vampire who survives by feeding off the neighborhood lowlifes. Occasionally, his bite accidentally turns victims into undeads who, unaware of their vampirization, go on rampages that end in spectacularly gruesome fates. As sweet as the pure and wholesome friendship between Oskar and Eli may be, it's the gory set pieces that propel the predictable plot.
