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Suck It Up and Die
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Age Range
12+
Release Date
August 14, 2012
ISBN
978-0-385-73911-5
Nearly two years after Suck It Up,all Morning McCobb wants is to complete his training at the NY Fire Academy and to stay head over heels in love with Portia for as long as the chronology-crossed lovers can, given that she's now eighteen and he's stalled at sixteen. It's nearly the first anniversary of American Out Day, the historic day on which the Leaguer vampires of America began going mainstream without going bloodstream on their fellow mortal citizens. The tension between Morning's wish for a simple, out of the spotlight life, and Portia's cinematic obsession with historic events escalates to the breaking point when a super-sinister vampire rises from the grave with a powerful thirst, for revenge.
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The much anticipated sequel!
Overall rating
3.3
Plot
3.0
Characters
4.0
Writing Style
3.0
Super vampire Morning McCobb is back, and trying to help the Vampire League get the Vampire Rights Act passed. While vampires are now out, they have also been stripped of many of their rights, such as voting and owning businesses. People like the MOPs, led by Becky-Dell Wallace are still afraid that vampires will go back to drinking blood, and also don't like that vampires can CD (cell differentiate, or shape shift). While Luther Birnam, president of the League, thinks vampires should toe the line and behave so they can have rights, Morning just wants to get on with his life. He wants to be able to marry Portia, but is glad that he can participate in the New York Fire Department Academy while "officially" 16, due to his vampire powers. Problems arise when Ikor DeThanatos comes back from the dead, and not surprisingly, has it out for Morning. He gets into an odd arrangement with Becky-Dell, setting up a consensual bloodlust online dating service which makes the League look bad and leads to the defeat of the VRA. Luther realizes that vampires can regain their mortality if they embrace the dreams they had while mortal, and Morning realizes that he is aging very slightly. Before this becomes an issue for him, Ikor impersonates him and turns Zoe, and is caught on camera! Leaguers are all told to report to Leaguer Mountain for screening, but are then attacked. Epic battles ensue. Will the League be able to survive, much less get rights back for vampires?
Good Points
Here is a guilty confession: I have THREE copies of Suck it Up (2008) in my library. No matter how carefully I go over orders, there are occasionally duplicates, and I ended up with copies from Baker and Taylor AND from Follett. The good news? None of them are ever on the shelf, so it was money well spent. These are a nice twist on vampire lore, have some romance, and are a good recommendation for students who only want to read vampire books.
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