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Publisher Unknown (2009)
Description
Your dad used to be the spooky-mysteries TV show host Professor Midnight. Your grandmother lives in the basement and only comes upstairs after dark. Your mom died when you were a baby, and nobody will tell you about her. Oh, and you have two birthdays, both on Halloween. And that's the part of your life that's normal.But with this birthday, everything is going to change.* By Will Shetterly, author of Dogland, Elsewhere, Nevernever, and other novels.
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LibraryThing member theWallflower
It's actually pretty good. To a point. It's about a young girl who discovers that her mother is a vampire/werewolf/shapeshifter-thingy and her father is a vampire/werewolf/shapeshifter-thingy hunter, and that she's destined to end the war between the two families.
The dialogue is quick-witted, and
The dialogue is quick-witted, and
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there are some good parts to the book, like when the main character is forced to suck blood for the first time, an act that's almost guaranteed to kill the person due to the initial bloodlust, and her best friend is forced to be her first victim, so they have to figure out a way around the binding spell. And when the council of families on her father's side decide they must kill her to save everyone, and she willingly volunteers (a sixteen-year-old!) to be killed for the good of everyone. Show Less