Helpful Score: 1
In this Young Adult novel, Literary Agent, Lucianne Diver makes her debut as a YA author. Her character Gina, is a seventeen year old high school diva made vampire who laments about her lack of reflection and finds herself caught up in a Vampire Coup gone bad. Her maker and would be boyfriend, Bobby, former chess club geek gone sheik just happens to be some super vamp and the "powers that be" want to use him for all kinds of evil. Finding herself, in the midst of this chaos, the vapid Gina finds her soul, so to speak. A series in the making, I look forward to getting to know the main characters more as the second book has been approved by the Publisher.
As this book was written for teens, and I am not one...I found it hard to identify or even care about the main character. However, I feel that was the author's plan all along and I am looking forward to the growth of Gina as she morphs from your stereotypical self obsessed teen to someone who cares and in turn makes me care about what happens to her.
This series has definite promise and I recommend this book to all vamp enthusiasts of all ages.
As this book was written for teens, and I am not one...I found it hard to identify or even care about the main character. However, I feel that was the author's plan all along and I am looking forward to the growth of Gina as she morphs from your stereotypical self obsessed teen to someone who cares and in turn makes me care about what happens to her.
This series has definite promise and I recommend this book to all vamp enthusiasts of all ages.
Helpful Score: 1
I really , really wanted to like this book, but something was just... off. The book opens up with our main character, Gina, clawing her way out of her coffin, realizing she is now a vampire. Then we meet her sire, who was a former chess geek and is now her... boyfriend????
I found Gina to be self centered and downright annoying. We as readers get no real chance to get to know Gina, or any of the other characters for that matter. It almost feels like we missed an entire prequel. The scenes jumped around quite a bit and I often found myself lost.
After about 100 pages of this nonsence, I just gave up on it because I just didnt care what happened to her anymore. I will not be following this series. If it were possible, Id give it 0 stars.
I found Gina to be self centered and downright annoying. We as readers get no real chance to get to know Gina, or any of the other characters for that matter. It almost feels like we missed an entire prequel. The scenes jumped around quite a bit and I often found myself lost.
After about 100 pages of this nonsence, I just gave up on it because I just didnt care what happened to her anymore. I will not be following this series. If it were possible, Id give it 0 stars.
YA novel written aound teesn that are suddenly dying and being brought back as a vamp army. Quick easy read. 2.5 stars
Reviewed by Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen for TeensReadToo.com
Gina Covello's life-altering night in only six words: went to prom, became a vampire.
Well, it's really not that simple. There were some things Gina could have done to prevent this. For one, she could have stuck with her boyfriend, Chaz, during prom instead of making out with the transformed, now uber gorgeous chess geek, Bobby. She could have found a better place so Chaz would not actually see this occur. She could have not gone in the car with a now angry and a little tipsy boyfriend who might just be a little off while driving.
If only all these "could haves" were processed before Gina could actually make an executive decision. In the end, the car crashed, Gina thought she was dead, woke up in a grave, and discovered that Bobby was not a normal chess geek, but a newly vamped one.
After clawing her way out of her grave with her superpower vamp strength, and being saved by her "vampire boyfriend," Bobby, Gina thinks that with her new life, she can rule the world. Of course that is once she gets out of the hideous ensemble her parents buried her in and shops til she drops with an addition of a serious makeover (vamps can do that, right?).
Little does Gina know that another vamp is vying to take over the vampire world and the army she is building is all too familiar with Gina and the entire town.
What's now in store for Gina? There is discovering that Bobby may not be just a normal vampire, and can he get any sexier? Then, of course, there are the harsh interrogations and treatment by a freakshow, and a dragon lady, and a revival of her arch-enemy. And who could forget the all-out battle to the end.
With a huge influx of vampire inspired novels, it is hard to choose the ones that are worth taking a bite out of. VAMPED is one novel you will want to sink your teeth into... more than once.
Lucienne Diver introduces the newest and hottest couple to the vampire world. Gina, who knows how to kick butt, take control when needed, and look good while accomplishing it all; and Bobby, the perfect gentleman vampire who knows exactly how to make Gina happy and is an amazing kisser. Watch out Edward Cullen, you have major competition.
With the combination of witty banter, intertwined with small curl-your-lip-up romantic scenes, scheming plots, and a war no one will want to miss, VAMPED is the newest, biggest vampire novel around. Do not miss out on what everyone else will be reading!
Gina Covello's life-altering night in only six words: went to prom, became a vampire.
Well, it's really not that simple. There were some things Gina could have done to prevent this. For one, she could have stuck with her boyfriend, Chaz, during prom instead of making out with the transformed, now uber gorgeous chess geek, Bobby. She could have found a better place so Chaz would not actually see this occur. She could have not gone in the car with a now angry and a little tipsy boyfriend who might just be a little off while driving.
If only all these "could haves" were processed before Gina could actually make an executive decision. In the end, the car crashed, Gina thought she was dead, woke up in a grave, and discovered that Bobby was not a normal chess geek, but a newly vamped one.
After clawing her way out of her grave with her superpower vamp strength, and being saved by her "vampire boyfriend," Bobby, Gina thinks that with her new life, she can rule the world. Of course that is once she gets out of the hideous ensemble her parents buried her in and shops til she drops with an addition of a serious makeover (vamps can do that, right?).
Little does Gina know that another vamp is vying to take over the vampire world and the army she is building is all too familiar with Gina and the entire town.
What's now in store for Gina? There is discovering that Bobby may not be just a normal vampire, and can he get any sexier? Then, of course, there are the harsh interrogations and treatment by a freakshow, and a dragon lady, and a revival of her arch-enemy. And who could forget the all-out battle to the end.
With a huge influx of vampire inspired novels, it is hard to choose the ones that are worth taking a bite out of. VAMPED is one novel you will want to sink your teeth into... more than once.
Lucienne Diver introduces the newest and hottest couple to the vampire world. Gina, who knows how to kick butt, take control when needed, and look good while accomplishing it all; and Bobby, the perfect gentleman vampire who knows exactly how to make Gina happy and is an amazing kisser. Watch out Edward Cullen, you have major competition.
With the combination of witty banter, intertwined with small curl-your-lip-up romantic scenes, scheming plots, and a war no one will want to miss, VAMPED is the newest, biggest vampire novel around. Do not miss out on what everyone else will be reading!
