{"id":1867,"date":"2008-08-25T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:38","slug":"important-life-altering-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Important Life-Altering Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SLLxXYknhnI\/AAAAAAAAAuo\/PhjBh_sLjQ8\/s1600-h\/SuckstobeMe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/SuckstobeMe.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238514700620629618\" style=\"padding:5px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Myth: Garlic repels vampires.<br \/>Truth: Try telling that to my dad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mina&#8217;s always known her parents were vampires. But they aren&#8217;t the evil, scary, blood-draining type of vampires. In fact, they&#8217;re actually pretty normal, even if they don&#8217;t need to eat and they have to wear masses of sunblock when they go out in the sun. It&#8217;s just that, shortly before Mina was born, her Uncle Mortie got turned into a vampire, and not long afterwards he dragged her parents into it. <br \/>Still, life is more or less normal, until Mina finds out that her parents have been breaking vampire law\u2014Mina isn&#8217;t supposed to know about them. They broker a compromise with the regional Vampire Council: Mina has a limited time to decide whether or not to become a vampire herself. In the meantime, she has to take vampire orientation classes with a cast of characters ranging from the Goth-iest of Goths to the ditsiest of cheerleaders. <br \/>In between is George, who actually seems pretty normal. The problem is, Mina can&#8217;t reveal any of her new extracurricular activities to her best friend, Serena\u2014who <i>looks<\/i> like a Goth but is really just a free spirit who kept the Goth look due to inertia. Without Serena, it&#8217;s all really hard to cope with: the rules, the potential life (or death) changes, and the complications. <br \/>Add in a crush on a school hottie named Nathan, another crush on a super-cute wanna-be vampire boy, and a homicidally jealous Goth chick, and you&#8217;ve got Kimberly Pauley&#8217;s funny, sardonic, and charming <i>Sucks to Be Me<\/i>. If you enjoyed the graphic novel <i><a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/fiction-with-fangs.html\">Life Sucks<\/a><\/i>, or if you&#8217;re looking for an anti-<i>Twilight<\/i>, you might enjoy this look at vampire life through a humorous lens. I did, and I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of vampire books. Look for this one to come out later this month from Mirrorstone.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/readersrant7?product=9780786950287\" target=_blank>Buy this book from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: Garlic repels vampires.Truth: Try telling that to my dad. Mina&#8217;s always known her parents were vampires. But they aren&#8217;t the evil, scary, blood-draining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,12,43,44,5],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-girls-fiction","tag-humor","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}