This is one of my fave throwbacks to my teen years - Ellen Schreiber and her Vampire Kisses series. To say I was obsessed with this series is an absolute understatement. Recently, I picked this book up again and decided to throw myself into this series, and I still love it!

This series is full of cute-sy YA romance with Alexander and Raven. The book is written for a younger audience, but if you're like me and love sinking away into a fantastical world then it will be no issue to you. If you're expecting a "True Blood-esque" novel, then you've come to the wrong place.

The fourth book in this series, Dance with a Vampire, continues Alexander and Raven's epic love story. Except, this time around we've got more crazy antics that the pair have to deal with. Valentine is now up to her trouble, making it seem impossible for our love birds to have a happy ending.

A note for the reader: These books are relatively short, which makes them a fun, sweet, and smooth read. It's really easy to binge all of these books in a day if you have the nerve to. I read the first four books (back in the day) on a bus ride to a school swim meet. I re-read these books many times because of how short and fun they were. So, it's not a big time commitment if you read these babies one by one.

Final note: The manga version of this series was one of the first mangas I ever read and made me fall in love with that "genre" (is genre the right word? Probably not). The pictures were beautiful, the story was magical and I'm glad it got me so into reading! Thank you Ellen for being one of my early reading addictions. Hopefully I'll find some more newer books by her soon! Her writing just vibes well with my reading style.

I'd highly recommend these books. They are on the younger side of YA, but they are funny, sassy and absolutely adorable. My biggest con for this whole series was that it ended! I loved each book and I really want more by this author. So many YA novels take themselves way to seriously and try to make the teen be an adult. This series makes Raven be a fun, young girl who makes mistakes along the way (but she somehow gets an epic romance out of it).

Five out of five stars! ( )

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2.5 stars
Although the writing style, plot and characters are all immature I still found the book somewhat entertaining and I find myself too invested in knowing where we will end up with this story to stop reading the series. ( )

an 11 year old vampire with tattoos and piercings! Really?! Come on! How suspicious is that??? ( )

i can't finish this one, it's completely lost me. It makes me want to stab a 13 yr old who is on the brink of becoming a stalker. So with that being said, I'm starting something new. Although these books were really cute, just completely different mindset than I was prepared for.

I gave them a three stars because, I do like them I think there is just some things that i would like to see different. But if its a book aimed at pre-teens then its perfect. So I would give my little sister my copies, but I don't think I'm interested in picking them up again. It's just making me want to punch babies or something and that's not nice :P lol ( )