Bite Me!
Author: Melissa Francis
Series: ---
Publisher: HarperCollins
How Received: ARC
AJ Ashe isn't your typical seventeen-year-old vampire—as if there is such a thing! She's stuck in the middle of a huge fight between her two BFFs. Her ex-boyfriend—whom she's still totally in love with, by the way—is now her stepbrother. A former classmate—who, um, she may or may not have turned into a vampire—is stalking her. And now, apparently, the fate of humankind lies in her little undead hands. What ever happened to the good old days, when all a vampire girl had to worry about was the occasional zit and hiding her taste for blood?
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I'm not going to say I didn't enjoy this story. I love a good vampire novel as much as the next teenage girl, and this one did have some aspects that I enjoyed. I loved the whole background on the history - her Serpentine background, the potential prophecies that the sequel will hold, etc. Aunt Doreen is a fantastic character. The drama between Ryan (her boyfriend gone stepbrother) and AJ was fantastic.
On the other hand, it seemed as if there were too many plot points. We had...
1) Ryan x AJ Drama
2) AJ & Friends Drama Hopefully more will be elaborated on Malia in the next book???
3) AJ & Stalker Drama SPOILER ALERT: Stalker ends up dead. The only use I saw for him was to add more drama... unnecessary drama. She could have tried to find out her family history with #5.
4) AJ & Evil Teacher Drama Sure, evil teachers are fun. But necessary? Uh. No.
5) AJ & Mr. Charles Drama
6) General Vampire Drama
Now, why do I refer to everything as "drama"? It was ALL dramatic. So far - we'll see if a sequel illuminates more - I saw no need for 3) AJ & Stalker Drama and 4) AJ & Evil Teacher Drama.
All in all, it wasn't a bad book. I just felt as if there was too much going on at once. I am looking forward to the sequel, though.
Overall Rating & Final Comments: 7/10. (Except Aunt Doreen. She gets a 9/10.)
Bite Me! or Demon Princess?: Which would you rather be, a demon in the human world or a vampire in the human world? Demon Princess had too little in the ending, where Bite Me! had too much overall. Personally, I'm a big vampire buff, so I'd recommend Bite Me!, though both had it's ups and downs.
Happy reading!
~ Nicole