Language: R (64 swears 24 'f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (Underage drinking). Violence: PG-13 (murder, vampire deaths)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Siblings and high school students Theo and Marco throw an epic end-of-the-year party without permission. As their punishment, their father takes them with him to spend the summer at their grandma's house on the Oregon coast. Their grandmother is superstitious and the town is small. Marco and Theo are not happy to be there. They soon make friends with some of the local kids and things seem to be looking up. Their grandmother tells them to always be home before dark but their new friends seem to have a magnetic pull that Theo and Marco can not resist. Soon Theo begins to see that the town and her new friends are hiding dark secrets.
An enjoyable vampire story. The characters were interesting and believable. The story had good pacing. I liked that the whole town was involved in the story in one way or another. The excessive use of the F word was unnecessary. Beware that vampires are killed by decapitation, and by being run through by stakes. Bodies are discovered that have been bitten and mauled. Theo and Marco have a white father and Hispanic mother. Their friends are described as white, black and brown.
A. Snow
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