This book is sincerely in a league of it's own. It's not a love story, it's not violent and it's not a gore filled blood and bite kind of book! It's the coming of age book for a half mortal half vampire trying to find a place in modern society. VAMPIRES are still secret. There are in fact three different sects of vampires. Where does ARI fit in these societies? Where does she fit in this world?? She is still trying to find out...

She is a freak to mortals... AND a freak to VAMPIRES. She was born to a mortal and has a Vampire father. She was raised by her father, home schooled, told that she had to tell people that she had Lupus so that she can be a hermit in her father's house.

In this book she is forced to find herself because she has a knack for befriending people that either go missing, or are found dead...

The Year of Disappearances is a wonderful followup book to The Society of S. BUT if your looking for action packed story lines, this isn't the book for you. It's for the EDUCATED VAMPIRE LOVER looking for a wonderful novel. It's a great break from the norm! I highly recommend it!!!

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Well, parts of this book were interesting, but it wasn't an improvement over the first book. What is with the rash of vampire novels that carry the writers' own belief systems thinly veiled in the plot? First _Twilight_ and now this... It feels more like reading "fun" propaganda than an actual novel. Is the intended audience supposed to be so overwhelmed by the "coolness" of vampires that are supposed to blindly swallow all of the other messages? It just ruins what would have otherwise been a good story - well, an alright story, in this case, I suppose. The ending absolutely fell apart, and if this series continues, I am more than willing to wait to read the next one when it hits the dollar shelves, and not a minute before that.

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