This is possibly the worst book I've ever tried to read. I read Red Zone and enjoyed it, but this book was so bad I couldn't believe it was the same author.

Ms Jones took a fascinating case, a group of teen killers who thought they were vampires, and managed to make it boring. That takes real...um...skill.

She made the classic mistake of analyzing characters without letting you get to know them. Example: "At first, Heather thought it was because she had been reading too much Anne Rice; she didn't really know why she found herself becoming attracted to the idea of drinking human blood."

There was apparently no editing. I'm not talking about spelling or grammar. I'm talking about sentences that just didn't make sense. Example: "Rod was, without a doubt, the embodiment of insanity, but yet, there was something vampiric about him." (Was that sentence computer generated?)

The story also jumped around, so I had trouble figuring out what happened when. It wasn't in any reasonable order. She talked about Rod going BACK to Kentucky, before informing us he had ever lived there.

I never finished it. I recommend never starting it. ( )

I read this book a few years ago and I really liked it. It was very disturbing and dark. However, it keeps you on the edge of your seat where you HAVE to turn to the next page to see what happens. I couldn't put it down when I started it and once I finished, I lent it out to several people who also loved it. The only thing that I found annoying was when Jones would go on several-page-long tangents about the scenery.... ( )

This story is really, mindblowingly amazing. The completely true story of real life teenagers who believe they're ageless vampires! They're all so incredibly bizarre, yet so completely believable. The writing itself is, at best, serviceable, and at worst, distractingly garbled, but at the high points, the intense melodrama of proceedings is set into fine relief by the plodding, hard-boiled prose.

The main problem here was the length and the dizzying amount of detail. It's a long book, but so lurid that I expected to fly through it in no time. Instead, I found myself continually bogged down by chapter after chapter of "girl x thought boy y was crazy, but she loved him anyway. But maybe he really was a vampire! But maybe he was just crazy. But she loved him anyway!"

Still, the tale is so wacky, it really demands to be read. ( )