Bite Me!

Can we just get more of this please? Melissa Francis has a great easy to read story of teen vampiredom in a way you never imagined. Not your cliche vampire story. This one is fun, whimsical at times, but shares the reality that is a teenagers life - right down to the often ignored real sexual tension, and blended family woes. Great story about AJ and her family, as well as the teen angst that comes with your boyfriend suddenly becoming a step brother.

A nice read.Noah was creepy. Mr Charles was bad. Malia weirded me out and made me suspicious. Bridget was okay. Rick was very nice as step-father. Aunt Doreen was awesome. AJ's mother was so and so. Ryan can be a sweety and a keeper at times, but he acted as a total jerk very often. I could totally feel for AJ. I would probably act and feel the same way she did, if I were in her place.I totally didn't like that AJ and Ryan had to sacrifice their love because their parents fell in love after they already had started dating. That totally bugged me.Ryan and AJ were really sweet together by the way.It's maybe more like 3.5 stars. Curious to read Love Sucks.

Bite Me! tells the story of 17 year-old AJ Ashe, who's holding in a big secret. She's a vampire. But vampires in AJ's world are different from your typical legendary vampires. They function perfectly well in daylight and they don't have to feed off humans. Instead, they drink hemo-shakes. When AJ's mother marries the father of the boy AJ is in love with, trouble starts. Now, she has to put aside her romantic feelings for Ryan and pretend their new melting pot family is one big modern Brady Bunch. Bite Me! is funny, spooky, and one fabulous read! I highly recommend it for both teens and adults, alike.

As far as I am concerned, a good novel is ageless so the fact that this book was written with a younger audience in mind meant nothing to me. Now that I've read it I can see that being a teenager, or as in my case... having a couple of them, really enhances an already fun and suspenseful story! Ms Francis really captures the personalities, dialogues and attitudes of good kids with smart mouths! (My favorite kind of kids by the way) The story is terrific and even for an old detective novel reader like me... the end came as a surprise. This was a fun read for any age and I am most definitely getting the second book and hoping for a third!

I thought Bite me would be a comical quick read.....wow.....it Was comical...and I got swept into the story which was soooo good....soooo much better than I thought it was gonna be...Once finished I immediately ordered Love Sucks...Melissa Francis has a way with words and I admit I was very impressed....I will be keeping an eye out for any new books she writes...please bring more.

I loved the voice in this book...it jumped off the page for me and I felt like the characters were with me telling me the story. Great debut from the author and hope to read a lot more from her!

Fun and cute. Fast read.

Great book about vampire in Mississippi! Very cool that I live not far from Memphis, wish it would have had more about Mississippi

I was really looking forward to reading this and it didn't disappoint. Melissa Francis has a very easy and witty writing style that helped to bring AJ to life. She was an interesting character that I really liked. The vampire mythology felt very vague in the beginning of the book but you soon realise this is because AJ was also in the dark and we discovered information at the same time as she did - which I thought worked well. Overall, Francis created a very interesting take on the vampire myth which managed to feel fresh - ideal when there are so many different vampire stories out there.I really liked the relationship between AJ and Ryan and was please to see a legitimate reason for them not being together. I also enjoyed the relationship AJ had with her mother - which made the whole Ryan situation more believable . The story was , perhaps, slightly predictable in places and I wasn't particularly surprised at the end but I still found it enjoyable watching the characters work it all out. Also, there were enough ends left untied for the sequel that (i believe) is due in spring 2010. I'll certainly be grabbing it when it's released.