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Vampiric Vacation: Sinister Summer, Book 2

By Mary Eisenhart, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 8+

Funny, creepy sequel takes twins to Transylvania.

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Kiersten White's creepy, funny tale puts 12-year-old twins Theo and Alexander in many perils as their spooky aunt drops them at a luxurious but peculiar spa with some definite Dracula overtones. Red fluids, comically creepy villains, locked rooms, cavernous cliffs, twisty passages and other dire dangers await on Theo and Alexander's Vampiric Vacation. So does a lot of wry, understated humor:

"'People don't understand that a scary name doesn't necessarily mean a scary thing,' said Mina Blood to Alexander and Theo Sinister-Winterbottom."

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