A romance involving a high school girl and a handsome vampire may sound a
little too familiar, yet this first novel quickly bursts ahead of the
pack of Twilight-wannabes. Down-to-earth mathlete Jessica
Packwood is completely horrified when, a few months shy of her 18th
birthday, a Romanian named Lucius Vladescu shows up on her doorstep,
claiming that he and she are vampire royalty betrothed to each other
since infancy—what's worse, her adoptive parents verify the betrothal
story and explain that her birth parents identified themselves as
vampires, too. Fantaskey makes this premise work by playing up its
absurdities without laughing at them, endowing Jessica with a coolly
ironic sensibility and Lucius with old-world snobberies that Jessica's
girlfriends find irresistible. Jessica's laidback parents serve as foils
for imperious Lucius (Can I ever again be happy in our soaring Gothic
castle after walking the halls of Woodrow Wilson High School, a literal
ode to linoleum? he asks sarcastically); a scene at a steakhouse where
the vegan Packwoods meet the carnivorous Vladescus is first-rate comedy.
The romance sizzles, the plot develops ingeniously and suspensefully,
and the satire sings. Ages 14–up.
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