My youngest daughter goes to school with one of the author's children. I kept hearing her talk about these books so I checked it out from the library on my kindle account so that she could read it. I don't think she ever got around to reading it but I decided to go ahead and read it one evening. I found it to be a nice book for middle grade kids (and maybe older). This book was very tame and easy to read. The author creates some interesting rules for vampires in this book. Vlad has all of the difficulties of fitting in that is normal for a young teen as well as trying to hide his true nature. I am really not sure if I will continue the series at this point.