*Spoilers are in here for those who have not read this book*
From the back cover
NIGHT SCHOOL NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD.
When the sun goes down, New York's true elite head to one place: Bathory Academy, where the young ladies of the finest vampire families are trained in shapeshifting and luring their prey.
Bathory's reigning queen, Lilith Todd, is the daughter of a powerful vampire businessman, and she knows exactly what she wants from life. She wants to look beautiful for eternity and party till the sun comes up with her gorgeous boyfriend, Jules. And she doesn't want any New Blood upstarts standing in her way.
Enter Cally Monture, an unexpected threat from a trash zip code. When their first meeting leads to tragic results, Lilith is hungry for revenge.
I've eyed this book series for a couple years and was shocked to find it on the shelf the used book store Book Nook in Boyertown, PA. It was a worthy investment.
From the beginning to the end, Vamps is told in the different voices of the characters, especially Cally Monture and Lilith Todd.
The intrigue of Cally is when you first meet her, she appears when Lilith and her friends decide to go "slumming" in the park, aka looking for an easy target to get a good bit of blood from after being caught drinking from a human at their private vampire club in Manhattan. Cally is a "new blood" who too was out "slumming" in the park when Lilith and her friends go out for some fun. Much to Lilith's surprise, Cally is a stormgatherer. A vampire who can summon strong winds, lightening in her hand, and bring attention to them during their fight.
The attention they gather is from the Van Helsing's, a group of vampire hunter's descended from Abraham Van Helsing himself.
Lilith blames Cally for catching the attention of the Van Helsing's in the park disguised as drug dealers.
While Cally runs down into the subway tunnel, she notices a guy she thinks is an EMO, and can feel she has a connection with him, while also thinking he hasn't noticed her. But she is wrong, so very wrong, while she takes the train up north to her home, she finds out after she gets off the subway, that he too, has noticed her. She sends a squirrel after him, then goes back after the guilt starts kicking in and subsequently also saves him from being run over by a train by keeping on the bottom of the track. After she starts to leave, she gets his name. Peter.
The next night she goes to a club where she knows she can slum without being caught and finds out Peter is none other than a Van Helsing. And if thing's cannot get worse for the character, she finds out that her father who has not been in her life has decided that she must leave her New Blood school, Varner. Though, not liking it, Cally tells her friends who are also new bloods, that she is being sent to Bathory Academy. Like she were a piece of gum on someone's shoe, they leave her making up the excuse about a fake test they have the next day at Varner to show her disapproval and betrayal for what she is going to do.
After going to her orientation at the "grotto" of Bathory Academy, she finds the girl Lilith Todd also attends the school, and instantly she has become the queen bee's enemy. Cally learns that not all hope is lost and that some people accept others for who they are, including her scrivening teacher who becomes impressed with how very well she is at the ancient writing, her new half blood friend's Bella Maledetto and her twin sister Bette, who's father is very kind to Cally after learning what she did to help help his daughter.
Lilith Todd is the perfect Yang to Cally's Yin and the two make a perfect protagonist-antagonist balance to each other when it comes to the plot line. For Vamps, I give the book and Nancy A. Collins a well deserved A and a gold star for an intriguing plot-line.
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