Catherine Jinks' The Reformed Vampire Support Group
I should really start a category on this blog for books about teenage vampires, b/c gosh do I read a lot of them. This one skews away from a lot of the typical mythology--the vampires aren't superpowered or anything, they're actually pretty sickly, and there aren't many of them. The main character, Nina, became a vampire in 1973 at the age of 15 and still lives with her mother 35 years later, going to a weekly support group meeting with the other local vampires (who all sprang from the same source). Then one of them is staked and they have to figure out who killed him before the rest get killed too. Anyway, this is a kind of a lighter side of vampires--there are some creepy bits, and some dark bits, but also a good deal of humor and even a touch of romance. A-.
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