Starla had always imagined that becoming a vampire would make her popular, glamorous and wealthy. But after she and her best friend, Jordan, become undead, Starla realizes one thing: a vampire’s life sucks.
Since there’s no turning back, she tries to make the best of her situation, but it isn’t easy. Especially not after her friend abandons her to serve the oldest, most powerful vampire in the city. Or when she gets on the bad side of a gang of vampires who’ve taken over the zoo. Or when she meets a really cute boy and ends up falling in love, only to find out that there’s a major problem…she’s a vampire, and he’s a vampire killer.


The author, Michelle Scott had emailed me about doing a review for her book. I was surprised, excited that she contacted me to do so! I really did not read the description before diving into this book. Now to the review:

Okay hoping I'm working this spoiler thing right! I thought that her descriptions were so very beautifully done, and were very orginal. When the character was feeling something there was a comparison that fit very well. I really enjoyed the humorous yet cynical bond between Starlet who is the main character and her new relationship with the tiny child vampire Maybel. I thought that the author had different quirks for her vampires. That her main character was different in teh aspect that she wanted to become a vampire then became one that she realized that this new life style wasn't fully what she thought it would be. I liked seeing that the character realized the mistakes of her actions. I wish the main character, Starlet, was a smig more stronger with her personality since she was able to crush a table with her hands I don't mean strength. I liked the the vampires were seen as beasts and could beome lazy. However with all this good things I did have a couple of problems. I wish that there was a chapter or a preface before chapter one. I kind of just felt a little dropped into the story, a little too much was left to let grow. There was a couple of typos in the story. I almost wish this story was in first person to get a little more in Starlet's head, since her, her best friend Jordan who she is searching and trying to understand throughout the book, in addition to the love interest Mercer are all growing a little bit. The characters still seemed a little flip floppy. I read this almost all in one day so it is a quick fun read, it takes a little bit to pick up, but the ending was interesting. I literally laughed though when Starlet is beign stubborn and trying to avoid drinking blood from a human and tries a rat, I just thought back to the movie "Interview with a Vampire".
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Book Description:
Starla had always imagined that becoming a vampire would make her popular, glamorous and wealthy. But after she and her best friend, Jordan, become undead, Starla realizes one thing: a vampire's life sucks.

Since there's no turning back, she tries to make the best of her situation, but it isn't easy. Especially not after her friend abandons her to serve the oldest, most powerful vampire in the city. Or when she gets on the bad side of a gang of vampires who've taken over the zoo. Or when she meets a really cute boy and ends up falling in love, only to find out that there's a major problem...she's a vampire, and he's a vampire killer.

My Thoughts:
This story rates between a 1 and a 1.5. It was very unique...but in a peculiar way. It was kind of like Twilight meets I Am Legend.

If you do not like the YA genre, then this is not the book for you. With that said, I am not a fan of YA so I struggled through reading this book. The premise of the story was interesting but the delivery seems far too immature for an adult audience. Starla and her friend Jordan become vampires so that they can be wealthy and glamorous but the story opens with the two friends standing outside of Jordan's former childhood home; now kicked out and homeless because of her new vampiric state. The two Blood Sisters resign themselves to their new status and go looking for their first "meal" as vampires. They stumble upon a house with a former classmate who was reviled by Jordan because he used her sexually and then threw her away. A midnight snack and revenge at the same time? Joy! Two birds, one stone. Perfect, right? Wrong, the girls' effort is thwarted by a usurper. He swooped in and stole their meal and drained him dry...taking away the opportunity for a meal and revenge. Darn!

Poor girls! Now, what are they gonna do? It's not like they can pick up blood in aisle thirteen at their local grocer. Nope, they have to figure out another food source. They continue their hunting and wind up at a local nightclub. They target a young girl, a doppelgänger for Starla according to Jordan, as their victim. The girls have their first food fight, literally, as they battle over who will win the quarry. Their first attempt of food acquiry ends in an epic failure. Their young victim escapes them while they are fighting each other over who gets to draw first blood. Starla's "twin" runs back into the club shrieking and the girls end up hungry...still.

Pitiful humans turned into second-rate vampires...not a pretty picture at all. After their failed attempt to secure food, the girls find themselves at the playground where they were turned into vampires. Their arrival at the playground commences a sequence of events that change their vampiric lives forever.

I say that this book reminds me of I am Legend because the vampires were described as completely hairless (even the females) with a gray skintone. Sexy, huh?!?!

The story struck me as slightly disjointed. I could see where the pieces were supposed to connect but they were done so haphazardly. It was as if puzzle pieces of the story were dumped on the floor and the reader had to put the picture together. Mystery or suspense novels provide the reader with pieces or clues so that they can put together the final picture to figure out who done it, why'd they do it, or what happened. However, since this book fit into neither genre it was not a particularly enjoyable experience piecing together the why's and what's of the story.

The characters were just too juvenille to have broader appeal for an adult audience. The primary character ages were about sixteen or seventeen. Starla and Jordan were very scatterbrained (per impulsive descision to become a vampire without thinking through the ramifications); shallow (Starla vandalized and robbed a store to get a leather coat, boots, and sunglasses); and whiny and petulant (Starla didn't want to drink blood which made her weak...human...but raged and moaned when someone refered to her as such). Such a spastic trichotomy.

Then there was the whole storyline of Mercer's grandfather being able to purify Starla's blood since she hadn't drank human blood. They were going to perform a dialysis of sorts and remove her blood, purify it, and put it back into her body and voila the vampire demon would be excised from her body turning her into a half-human, like Mercer. Dialysis...hmmm...really?!?! The description of the entire process was just too pedestrian. The story definately could have been made more if that storyline and process had been fleshed out a bit more.

My feelings on the book are neutral; I did not totally hate it but, most likely, will not read it again. The book began with automatic strike for me because it was a YA which I do not typically read. However, in spite of my non-YA book policy, I have read one or two others and actually enjoyed them because they appealed to me on an intellectual level. The stories were mature in a way that elminated the teen fiction novel feel. Unfortunately, this book was just too teenyboppery for me to really enjoy. ( )

We have all thought about it at one point or another. What exactly would it be like to be a vampire? Humans are curious by nature and so it is only natural to imagine what all the different possibilities would be like. The same thing goes for one of the main characters in Blood Sisters by Michelle Scott. Starla dreams of becoming a vampire, and not just any vampire, but the sexy, rich, and glamorous kind. She wants to feel powerful and wanted, the envy of her classmates. It’s at this point that she talks her best friend Jordan into becoming vampires together. But as the saying goes, ‘Be careful what you wish for.’ Starla soon realizes that being a vampire is not the life she had imagined. She is constantly struggling within herself and with the concept of drinking human blood, especially after Jordan leaves her in hopes of being saved by the oldest known vampire. Blood Sisters is about the strength of friendship and the courage to stand up for what you believe in. This book is a relatively quick read and is a good young adult novel. ( )