The Vampire Stalker

by Allison van Diepen

Overview

What if the characters in a vampire novel left their world--and came into yours?Amy is in love with someone who doesn't exist: Alexander Banks, the dashing hero in a popular series of vampire novels. Then one night, Amy meets a boy who bears an eerie resemblance to Alexander. In fact, he IS Alexander, who has escaped from the pages of the book and is in hot pursuit of a wicked vampire named Vigo. Together, Amy and Alexander set out to track Vigo and learn how and why Alexander crossed over. But when she and Alexander begin to fall for each other, Amy wonders if she even wants him to ever return to the realm of fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545388832
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	570,011
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Allison van Diepen is the author of STREET PHARM, SNITCH, RAVEN, and THE ORACLE OF DATING. She teaches high school and lives in Ottawa, Canada. Please visit her online at www.allisonvandiepen.com.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 8 Up—Amy, 17, is a huge fan of the popular "Otherworld" novels. She adores Alex, the handsome vampire-slayer protagonist. Without knowing how, Alex chases Vigo, an evil vampire, through a temporary portal and ends up in Amy's real world of modern-day Chicago. The development of the story relies heavily on convenience and the unbelievable, predictable traits of a one-dimensional cast. Amy's clueless mom allows Alex, a moody boy she's never met, to stay at their apartment for a few days, thus providing a snug environment for the teens to bond. Also, Amy is good friends with the super-hip school librarian, who used to study a little-known branch of science called "literary physics." She still has connections at the university, where she can borrow special equipment for locating portals between dimensions, thus providing Alex a way to get back to Otherworld. Chrissy, Amy's unrelentingly bratty, rebellious eighth-grade sister, agrees to meet in person a guy she met on Facebook. He turns out to be Vigo (he caught on to 21st-century technology quickly). He kidnaps Chrissy, thus sparking a final showdown between him and Alex. When Vigo makes a ransom call to Amy, she recognizes a "ping" sound in the background as one that is played at the end of the announcements at a particular store at a particular mall; thus she and Alex are able to track Vigo there. The police ready themselves for the vampire onslaught by "having wooden stakes made" as if wooden stakes are hard to come by and must be special-ordered. Suspension of disbelief is unsustainable.—Jennifer Prince, Buncombe County Public Library, NC

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