Vampire Kisses; Book Review

Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schrieber, is about a girl named Raven who lives a very uneventful life. Then one day, on her 16th birthday a family rumored to be vampires moves into town. Raven loves this because she has never quite fit in (she's goth and proud of it.) She meets the son, Alexander, and soon falls in love. But as soon as they're excepted by the town(and she learns he is a vampire), Alexander unexpectedly leaves without a reason. Raven sets out to find him but as she looks she finds the reason Alexander left, another vampire named Jagger. Alexander returns to protect Raven and keep her safe, and just when they thought Jagger was gone he comes back, with his twin sister Luna who was originally supposed to become eternally bound to Alexander because she was not born a vampire and it was the only way she could become one. Alexander backed out because he barely knew Luna and didn't find it fair, but that didn't stop Luna from finding another way to become a vampire. In the end Jagger tries to steal Raven from Alexander but fails and flees with his sister back to Romania.

One of the main themes in this book is "finding a place in the world" an example of how this theme is shown is in the beginning and also throughout the book Raven only has one friend Becky. Raven is nothing like anyone even Becky but when Alexander and his parents move to town Raven has someone to relate to. Another theme would be "forbidden love". This is shown with the fact that vampires and humans should not fall in love. Those are the two examples of two themes in this book.

Honestly, I would not recommend this book to anyone my age because there really is not originality to it. Like with the Twilight Saga or the House of Night Series, both vampire series', the original vampire myths are twisted (in the Twilight Series vampires sparkle in the sun and in the House of Night Series it just irritates them) but int this book nothing is different (garlic makes them sick, they sleep in coffins, etc.) Also Ravens goth personality is very off. Out of all the goth people I know, no one is obsessed with vampires. Ellen Schrieber obviously didn't have a good grasp on "goth" when shewrote this book In conclusion, this is a very unoriginal book about a vampire falling in love with a human and I don't recommend it to anyone.


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