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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Jul 2013
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Fantasy & Magic
Retail Price: $9.99
Ages: 12 - 17 Pages: 480
At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough, and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead. But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh-eating zombies—and he's next on the menu.
As if starting high school isn't hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chain saw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?
I knew it was a teen version of the early Dark Hunter books, so wasnt expecting a lot, but with a 5 star rating I hoped for better. Nick was much more likeable in the adult books. He pretty much starts off as a brat here, rather than turning into one a few books later. Im not quite finished, but at least this offers some excusesdemonic forces for a fledgling hero becoming a villian despite the efforts of the good guys. Maybe the 5 stars came from teen readers, I think my 3 stars are more than generous..