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Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen
3.5

I am not entirely sure what I thought about this book. For the first 85% of the book it was a pretty slow-moving book about a punk rocker vampire girl (Louise) who doesn't like other people (or vampires) just trying to survive during a blood shortage when some long lost relative show up. And then towards the end it turned into her joining forces with the local boss vampire (and her human great-nephew) staging a coup to overthrow the ancient vampire rulers who control the entire vampire population and make rules for everyone without any "regular" vampires getting any say in anything. A very "taxation without representation" vibe (and, I kind of hate to say it, but very hard not to compare these all-powerful ancients to the Volturi in Twilight).

I thought the constant music comparisons were a little heavy handed. I get that Louise is obsessed with music, but not everything has to be a metaphor for music and musicians and the music industry. It got a little repetitive.

Overall, I wasn't super impressed because of how slow the first 3/4 of the book was. It felt like all the action was saved for the last quarter, and considering how long it took me to get to that point, I feel like it could have been a little better paced.

The family part was cool, as well as the idea of using an app for connecting vampires. But overall I wanted a little more from this book.