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The tagline on the cover of Fang Girl reads, "You know something's seriously wrong when you wake up in a coffin ..." Funny and kind of scary and the type of tongue-in-cheek tale you're about to read.
Fang Girl takes a humorous look at the world of vampires. You're not going to encounter Dracula or the mean-spirited creatures that inhabit Christopher Moore's wonderful books.
You will, however, meet Xanthe Jane Greene, who is a vampiraholic--she is addicted to all things undead. To her, they are the sexiest things going, and she even keeps in contact with others of a similar bent via Fang-Girls.net.
Still, she knows that they are only composites on film and in books. So imagine her suprise when she wakes up one morning in a coffin. And wakes up dead.
Now a vampire, Janie is cool with her situation until she realizes that another fanger is after her and trying to kill her. Her parents are jealous and want to be bitten by her; her brother gives her the cold shoulder because he wants to be a zombie.
It's a vamp look at vampires complete with cultural references intact: "Hang on, I could hear ominous music swelling. At least, slightly tinny and rather repetitive ominous music, reverberating in the close confines of the coffin. From my vast store of vampire-related trivia, I identified it as the opening theme from Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula movie, as interpreted by ringtone."
A fun little book on the creatures of the night--only these little devils text.
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Steven Rosen/2012 for curled
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Fang Girl