I can see how this series is so popular now and hope the quality continues with each subsequent book.
I really liked it and already have the next book loaded up on my Kindle (though I'm trying really hard not to start it tonight. This is a short gory book with a slightly new twist on the vampire mythos geared heavily towards male readers (though I think girls won't feel alienated at all) and the inclusion of a "freak show" is something fascinating and I welcomed reading about a topic done to death (heh) that ended up still feeling unique. Things are left open-ended, but there's not really a cliffhanger and I appreciated that. I love that Shan obviously planned this as a series but still wrote a full book. There's also a scene in the beginning that doesn't get explained and I'm curious to see where things go with that. Not a whole lot of surprises, you can kind of see where things are heading early on, but the few surprises that are included are pretty big ones. I can see how this might get compared to the Goosebumps series because those were quick reads too, though I'd say this series is for a slightly older audience, but if these had been around when I was 10 or so, I would've gobbled them up. The story is short and intense and doesn't contain a lot of filler. It was a nice way to break things up so it didn't feel dark and bleak every step of the way.
Also, some deadpan humor thrown in so it wasn't completely gross and disgusting all the time. There's a younger sister character with a small part and I enjoyed the siblings' relationship, but aside from her and a few mothers, this is mostly a series about boys. This is an older series and many of you may have read it years ago or already decided it wasn't for you, but maybe my review will sway you into giving it a chance (or just make you remember how much you loved it.)īe prepared for a male author with all male main characters.
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