Suck It Up

"Lifer: A mortal, or age-challenged, human being. Loner: A vampire who practices the old ways and insists that being a bloodsucking fiend is part of his or her ethnic heritage. Leaguer: A vampire who has conquered the craving for human blood and lives on a diet of animal blood or artificial blood substitutes." As a tot, orphan Morning McCobb dreamed of being a superhero. At age 16, he managed to get bitten, not by a radioactive spider, but by a vampire. Newly graduated from the super-secret International Vampire League Academy, Morgan has been chosen to be the first modern vampire to `come out' to the mortal humans. If his experiment is a success, it will pave the way for all Leaguers to walk in the light. Aided by PR specialist Penny Dredful and her wise-cracking daughter Portia, Morgan is ready to show his stuff, as it were, to the sensation seeking press. However, a few obstacles still block his path to fame. There are both `Lifers' and `Loners' who would like nothing better than to drive a stake through his heart. Then too, Morgan will have to control his envy for all things human if he wants to keep his bloodlust for Portia (as well as the more human feelings that she inspires) in check. Suck It Up is a fun, funky, original take on vampires in the modern world with likable characters and a great story.

This book was great! I found it interesting and not full of dismemberment and such terror and horror. If thats what you are looking for read something else. This book is full of vampire history and ways that vampires could live around us. It also has a good mystery and intense story line to keep you hooked till the last page. I think book two will be coming out as there was a cliff hanger snuck in. I will definetely buy it when it comes out!!

At last I'm reading it! I can't put it down! It's so much fun! Nice to revisit New York on the coat-tail of a vampire.

This book provided a good read for my girls this Summer. I am glad I purchased it!

Most teen vampire novels drip with dark, gothic atmospheres or devolve into needless whining angst, but this one definately fits the "perky goth" tag. Morning McCobb is anything but your typical dark, brooding teen vampire prince: if anything, he's the antithesis, a lovable, delightfully geeky lover of comicbook superheroes. Among the young members of the cleverly-named IV League, he's a bit of a misfit who falls over himself when he shapeshifts, but his cheerful outlook keep him from falling into the pit of self-pity. The ambitious head of the IV League, a covert organization of vampires who have weaned themselves off the need for human blood, grooms him to be the poster-boy for "Worldwide Out Day" -- his pet project to ennable League vampires to come out of the "selva obscura", the dark forest they have lived within for so long, and mingle with "Lifers", or ordinary humans -- and Morning accepts the role reluctantly at first. But the schemes of a "Loner", a rogue vampire, named DeThanatos, nearly thwart this plan for the reunion of humans and vampires, and endanger Morning's relationship with his PR rep's would-be sophisticated filmmaker daughter. Slapstick comedy, mischievous turns of phrases, playful tweaks of the vampire mythos, noble derring-do, charmingly awkward romance -- there's a little bit of everything in this book. The pace is a little more slap-dash than I would have liked, but that fits well with the superhero tropes (and comic book references, from X-Men to Superman to heavier material like Alan Moore's Watchmen) that author Brian Meehl liberally sprinkles throughout the story. I'm looking forward to seeing a graphic novel adaptation or sequel to this!