"I want to be ... a vampire!" I shouted, to the shock and amazement of Mrs. Peevish and my classmates. For a moment I thought she started to laugh; maybe she really did. The children sitting next to me inched away. I spent most of my childhood watching others inch away.
This was goth girl Raven Madison's pronouncement when asked by her kindergarten teacher. Raven was none too happy when former hippie parents had her brother Billy and sent her to kindergarten. Gone when the times of watching Dark Shadows on the black and white TV and staying up past midnight and on with kindergarten. Soon Trevor Mitchell becomes her nemesis when he bites her on the playground and she doesn't transform into a vampire bat.
Raven refers to her town as Dullsville with the wrong side of the tracks being farmland where her only friend Becky lives and Raven on the right side near the country club. The only exciting place in town for Raven was The Mansion on Benson Hill that had been deserted since it's former owner had died. To Raven, it was her Barbie Dream House.On her sixteenth birthday, Raven discovers that The Mansion has some new occupants and becomes determined to meet the mysterious person who looks out the attic window.
After listening to all the town's gossip about the Sterling's being vampires, Raven goes trick or treating at The Mansion determined to meet her dream goth guy. The butler runs out of candy when Raven approaches the door, Raven sneaks in determined to see what's going on and comes face to face with Alexander Sterling. Is he or is he not her dream guy?
The continuation of Raven and Alexander's love story. But what happens when Alexander disappears and a new vampire comes on the scene?
Continues the "boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be a vampire" story. And a new vampire comes onto the scene.
I have to love a book with a chapter titled "Library from Hell". Raven and Alexander go to the prom and another vampire with strange powers comes to Dullesville.
Probably the best book so far out of the series. Raven finds herself in over her head when she heads back to the Coffin Club.
Raven finally gets to meet Alexander's parents and they are Raven's dream come thrue. But what happens when they decide to sell the Mansion on Benson Hill?
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