Sucks To Be Me review by MDG
Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe)
by Kimberly Pauley
Age Range - 12 and up
Genre - Fantasy

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Age at time of review - 11
Reviewer's Location - Ashton, PA, United States
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Mina Hamilton has an important decision to make. Her parents are vampires, and she's just discovered that she has one month to decide whether or not she wants to become a vampire too. She can't tell her best friend Serena anything that's going on, and she has to attend "vampire classes" to learn about her new life. As if being a teenager and trying to get her crush at school to notice her isn't hard enough. But Mina knows she has to make the right decision, one that could change her life forever.

Opinion: 

This book was an okay read. I was curious to see how the author, Kimberly Pauley, would fashion her vampires because vampires are a hot subject right now in literature. I wanted to see if these vampires would be completely unique or if they would follow with traditional vampire mythology and I found that it was a little bit of both. The book was corny at times, and Mina tries too hard to be funny. But she's still a good character with a interesting decision before her: to stay alive or to become one of the living "un-dead". It's nice to see someone take a tough decision in stride and add humor to a somewhat somber situation. The book was cute, but definitely not hard-hitting literature.

 

 

Rating:
3
Content Rating:

Content rating - nothing offensive
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