Friday, November 13, 2009

An New Explanation for Vampires

With all the excitement about the next Twilight movie opening, here's a very different fiction book about vampires. In his book Sweet-Blood, Pete Hautman presents the idea that vampires are created when diabetes goes untreated. Lucy Szado frequents the Transylvania Internet chat room as Sweetblood. Usually it's just a group of young people that discuss all things goth, but Draco claims that he really is a vampire. As Lucy becomes more involved in the goth/vampire world, her life in the real word begins to fall apart include her ability to regulate her diabetes. Now Draco invites her to meet him and enter his strange world. Lucy has some very difficult decisions to make. Follow this disturbing yet fascinating story to see what Lucy decides to do.

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