The Reformed Vampire Support Group
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
If being a vampire were easy, there wouldn't have to be a Reformed Vampire Support Group.'Nina became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen, and she hasn't aged a day since then. But she hasn't had any fun either, because her life is so sickly and boring. It becomes even worse when one of the other vampires in her therapy group is staked by a mysterious slayer. Threatened with extinction, she and her fellow vampires decide to hunt down the culprit. Trouble is, they soon find themselves up against some gun-toting werewolf traffickers who'll stop at nothing. Can a bunch of feeble couch potatoes win a fight like this? Or is there more to your average vampire than meets the eye?'This book offers a clever and comical look at what is usually a spooky subject, and manages to deliver round after round of laughs.' - Niall, 16
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jinks's signature facility with plot and character development is intact as she turns to the topic of vampires as fans can anticipate, hers are not the romantic superheroes of the Stephenie Meyers books. Hers are a ragtag bunch: anemic, whiny, unattractive, they feed on guinea pigs (because they're small, "their drained cadavers can be concealed without much effort," and they breed quickly), and they turn for support to an idealistic priest. Nina, the narrator, is in her 50s, but was "infected" at 15 and chafes at being treated like an adolescent; she writes a sensational vampire series with a seductive, powerful heroine totally unlike herself, giving Jinks opportunity for comic contrasts. Throwing in delicious details and aper us, the author works her way from the murder of one of the vampires to suspense and adventure of the sinister yet daffy variety beloved by readers of Evil Genius. The plot twists, more ornate than in previous works, ramp up the giddiness and, perhaps, camouflage the corpses, blood and other byproducts of the genre. Ages 12 up.
