The Reformed Vampire Support Group - Catherine Jinks

After reading Stephenie Meyer’s ‘’Twilight’’ and really enjoying it, I fancied trying ‘’The Reformed Vampire Support Group’’ by Catherine Jinks. Meyer has proved that fiction aimed at teenagers can really be a good read and that vampires are interesting and even sexy! Jinks has a different angle of approach to our fanged friends though. Vampires are not seen in such a romantic way, but instead are more down to earth and ordinary. The hardships of being a vampire are described through the eyes of our heroine, Nina, forever stuck as a fifteen-year-old after being bitten in 1973. She explains her ... more

The Reformed Vampire Support Group was a book that is very different from other vampire novels. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either, I'm somewhere in the middle. There is a more realistic twist to vampires. Nina Harrison is tired of being a vampire. She's a 51 year-old stuck in the body of a 15 year-old, and she doesn't even have any of those super-cool vampire abilities, instead, there is temptations of human blood, physical weakness and general nausea. Life is hard. And boring. But when one of her fellow reformed vampires is staked, Nina is the one who has to track down the killer ... more