Helpful Score: 3
This is one of those books where "taste" plays a big part in if you will like this or not. The story follows the Radleys : Clara, Helen, Peter, Rowan & Will, as well as other characters in the third person format. But don't let that scare you off the chapters all really short so you won't get confused with who you're following. And it has a slow leisurely pace to it, I enjoyed it but like I said its going to be one of those books that strike everyone in a different way.
The Radleys are a normal dysfunctional English family. Peter is an overworked doctor, Helen is an unhappy housewife, Rowan and Clara are their teenaged children - Rowan is being bullied and Clara is an anemic recent vegan. The only secret that the Radleys have is a seventeen-year-old one that no one knows but themselves. Peter and Helen are vampires, trying to raise their children as normally as possible.
When Clara commits a shocking and oddly satisfying act of violence, she attracts the attention of the police, forcing her parents to shatter the shield of lies around their children. Uncle Will, a practicing vampire, arrives to throw off the police and in the process and cracks the Radleys idyllic marriage wide open.
I enjoyed this book very much and give it an A!
When Clara commits a shocking and oddly satisfying act of violence, she attracts the attention of the police, forcing her parents to shatter the shield of lies around their children. Uncle Will, a practicing vampire, arrives to throw off the police and in the process and cracks the Radleys idyllic marriage wide open.
I enjoyed this book very much and give it an A!
