Nina Harrison became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen, and she hasn’t aged a day since then. But she hasn’t had any fun, either; she still lives with her mum, and the highlight of her sickly, couchbound life is probably her Tuesday-night group meeting, which she spends with a miserable bunch of fellow sufferers, being lectured at. But then one of the group is mysteriously turned to ashes . . . and suddenly they’re all under threat. That’s when Nina decides to prove that every vampire on earth isn’t a weak, pathetic loser. Along with her friend Dave, she hunts down the culprit – and soon finds herself up against some gun-toting werewolf traffickers who’ll stop at nothing. Can a bunch of feeble couch potatoes win a fight like this? Is there more to your average vampire than meets the eye?
This title is also available in the United States (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the United Kingdom (Quercus) and Germany (Hanser Verlag) and will soon be available in Hungary (Athenaeum
Kiado Kft).
‘A great pick for readers who wished Twilight had fewer sparkly vamps, more laughs, and a compelling murder mystery.’
rd.com (Reader’s Digest US)
‘In this Australian author’s amusing tale,vampires aren’t beautiful, fearless creatures with superhuman strength.
They’re sickly, paranoid, and usually too nauseated to walk down the street. But after one of their group is murdered, the ragtag bunch is forced out of hiding to track down the killer.’
USA Today
‘This is a vampire story with a difference and young teens will devour it.’
The Sun (UK)
‘ . . . funny and subversive . . .’
Sunday Mail Brisbane
‘Jinks draws together a large cast of characters, all cleverly developed with personal histories – lives interrupted by their vampire “infection” – and idiosyncrasies . . . Though Jinks’s suburban vampires are laughable, they are also likeable and deserving of empathy.’
Sun Herald (Sydney)
