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Vegetarian vampires rock. This has got to be a relief from our recent immersion in blood and carnivery by Twilight.
In The Knaveheart's Curse we have a humorous spin on the fetish.
Maddy Livingstone looks like your average 11-year-old seventh grader. Only she has been around the world and then some as a vegetarian fruit-bat vampire for centuries. She still likes mildew.
Maddy has a dead-poet obsessed older sister, Lexie, and a younger brother, Hudson, who can’t stop using old -world words like “whilst.” Parents are present, too, of course. The family exchanged immortality as fruit bat vampires to live in New York City as “ordinary” people. (One might wonder why…)
Although human, the Livingstones still have some of their former traits. Hudson likes to fly through Central Park at night. Lexie can still use her echo-location and maintains super-fast reflexes and double-jointed knees. These attract the attention of the hottest guy in school, Dylan Easterby. Dylan happens to be the same age as Lexie (her human age anyway). Lexie runs into trouble because Mina, the most popular girl in school, also happens to want Dylan.
The leader of the Knavehearts wants Lexie… He’s a perfectly vicious Old World vampire who has come to town seeking an heir. Maddy, meanwhile, has trouble making friends in the city but befriends one Dakota Underhill in hopes of friendship. She will need it because it may be up to her to save Lexie. Meanwhile Maddy has trouble adjusting to the vegan diet. She drinks hot pomegranate juice every morning, pretending it's blood. She eats mosquitoes and ticks to get the blood they have taken from others.
Kids will identify with the typical pitfalls of growing up, and laugh-out-loud at the odder ones this trio of siblings face.
This Putnam Juvenile is earmarked for ages 9-15 and retails for $15. It's a Sequel to Vampire Island, also by Adele Griffin.
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