Fang Girl by Helen Keeble

"It had potential, and I liked Keeble's sardonic voice, for a bit, but after awhile it all got repetitive and the story got overly complicated and hard to follow. This book was purely for research purposes and it was a struggle to get through, kind of like, Summer Reading 👍."

1 Star

Pros Keeble's voice is sardonic and offbeat and I appreciated it, at first. It eventually started to grow old though. Like, her obliviousness just became tedious eventually.

Cons: So much was happening in this novel, all of it at the same time and it all just got very confusing. It needed to focus on just one thing/The protagonist is so unforgettable that I had a hard time remembering her name for this review.

Full Review

Xanthe Jane Green loves Vampires. She's a read all the books, seen all the tv/movies, knows all the characters, all the myths, all the legends. Vampires are her life. And when she wakes up in a coffin and realizes, through a befuddled conversation with her apparent Sire, that she is now a Vampire, well, apparently it's now her death as well. On...undeath?

Either way, she's a Vampire and when she manages to escape her grave, she briefly ponders running off, starting a new life. She's immortal now, she has all the time in the world but honestly, all she can think of is her family. And so, she runs home instead.

It ends up she's being followed by a Vampire Hunter/Dhampir and is the apparent, somehow Sire of a fellow super-user on Fang.girl.net, a site dedicated to all things Vampire. While Xanthe Jane Green's parents try to figure out a way to help her live her undead life, Jane tries to figure out what's going on cause things are just, not making sense. The last thing she remembers was being in a the car with her friend.

While Jane is waiting for her Sire to show up, she can't shake the feeling that she's being watched. And, of course, she's right .There are actually multiple people after her. And it all gets really confusing, really quickly and honestly this book was just a struggle. I wanted to DNF this book multiple times but I was intrigued enough to keep reading. This book was underwhelming and I'm glad to be done with it.

Like this book had me curious as to how she'd wrap it up, like what her explanation would be. But it was done by such an oblivious and ridiculous protagonist that it all just fell very flat and I was just glad to be done with it. It had potential and though it reached out for the bar, it missed it by its bare fingertips.

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