Saturday, March 21, 2015

Pretty Dead

Block, F. (2009). Pretty dead. New York: HarperTeen.

Pretty Dead is the story of a vampire named Charlotte. She is a teenager who seems to have everything, yet she feels like she doesn't. After a century of being a vampire, she is lonely and discontent. Her maker, William comes back into her life interfering with her and her best friend, Emily. Emily dies and we first think it was suicide, but find out that it was accidentally done by Charlotte, turning her into a vampire. William's powers take away Charlotte's immortality and allow her to be with her new love, Emily's former boyfriend, Jared.

This is a pretty typical vampire book to me. It has the typical elements of romance, lust, and longing. Like with Shiver, I think that it's predictable plot will appeal to most teen readers and will give them what they are looking for in a book like this.

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