Sunday, January 30, 2011

Still Sucks To Be Me, by Kimberly Pauley

Alas, this book fits into two categories that have been majorly overused on this blog of mine. Yes, it is both a sequel and [gasp], a vampire book. So, you may ask, what makes this book so different from the others? The answer is very simple: it is 500 times cooler, funnier, and well, better than the others. I did not stop laughing from the beginning to the end of the book (which annoyed everyone around me), but I couldn't help it. No one has ever made vampires this funny. But was even better was that although it was utterly hysterical, it was also serious and had a normal-ish plot. And was one of the best sequels ever.

In the first book, "Sucks To Be Me", Mina, the daughter of two vampires, is discovered by the vampire government dudes and must become a vampire or magically disappear down a dark alleyway so she chooses the former. So then, she needs to go to these classes to learn all about vampires and so on. I don't remember the rest of the plot but at the end, she becomes a vampire and ends up with a cute guy. (That wasn't a spoiler, by the way, because anyone with half a brain, which is surprisingly few people, can figure that out after page 4.)

In the sequel, Mina's life as a vampire officially starts with her family faking their deaths and moving away. And the cover flap was really weird so I don't know what else is safe to say.

5 stars. 5 full stars without even a dot uncolored.



1 comment:

liraelwiddershins said...

Oh, thanks! I'm so glad you liked it!!