Review: ‘Boys That Bite’ by Mari Mancusi
June 28, 2010
Boys that Bite
by Mari MancusiSeries: Blood Coven Vampire #1
Published by Berkley on April 4th 2006
SubGenres: Young Adult Paranormal
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
Source: Purchased
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Two sisters—as different as the sun and the rain. For one, getting into the Blood Coven is to die for. But for the other, getting out could be lethal...
When Sunny McDonald gets dragged to Club Fang by her twin sister Rayne, she doesn't expect to find anything besides a bunch of Goth kids playing at being vampires. But when some guy mistakes Sunny for her dark-side-loving sister and bites her on the neck, she finds out that his fangs are real—and deadly.
Now, Sunny has less than a week to figure out how to reverse the bite, or else she's going to end up as the perpetually undead. And not only will she be a vampire, she'll also be bonded to Magnus—the bloodsucker who bit her—forever. And forever is a really long time...
My Review:
(Originally Reviewed on Mrs. Papillion aka “The Book Worm”)
So what did I think about the book…let’s say I’m looking forward to the next book, which will be Rayne’s point of view. I’m not very fond of Sunny’s point of view for some reason. I don’t mind Rayne that much. Maybe because I can relate on how Rayne is because I went through a Goth phase myself a long time ago (like 12 years ago…LOL…yes I’m that old).
I adore Magnus in this book because it’s definitely what a Vampire is supposed to be like in these paranormal stories. He has the old ways, and he is a complete gentleman. He’s also a TRUE Vampire, where he can’t go in the sun, and he gets sick of religious artifacts, etc. Not a sparkly kind of Vampire.
I knew the ending was going to end the way it did because why wouldn’t it have. Very predictable endings to a book I usually rate low. I have a pet peeve of predicting books before I even finish it.
I give it 3 stars because it was kind of dry at first, but it got interesting towards the end.
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I guess I should type a bio here. I'm FranJessca, or Fran for short. I'm the owner/reviewer behind A Book Lovin' Mama's Blog. I've been reading and reviewing books on my blog since leaving the Navy in 2011, and I will keep doing it as long as possible. My favorite genres will always be Romance & Fantasy, and I read every subgenre underneath those two genres. (Sorry, not a fan of nonfiction, so don't try to convince me to read it.)
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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