They are forced to tell Clara and her brother, Rowan, that they are, in fact, vampires, though abstaining ones. Lest this deter the faint of heart, rest assured: He probably deserved it.Īnd thus the Radley parents' carefully orchestrated lives start to unravel. Though her parents try to dissuade her (in a very funny riff on the usual parental angst about the choices teenagers make), Clara persists, resulting in a horrifying scenario in which she kills and eats one of her classmates. Of course, the status quo is irreparably altered when teenager Clara Radley decides to become a vegan, setting off a chain of events with not entirely unexpected consequences. They do eat a great deal of rare red meat, though. Haig has added some nice touches as to how the vampires manage their condition: They wear a lot of sunscreen, they avoid Italian food due to a garlic "allergy" and, most important, they are "abstainers." In other words, they don't drink human blood. The kids go to high school, though they are picked on for being weird. His wife, Helen, belongs to the local book club and hosts dinner parties. The Radleys, though vampiric in nature, are strictly suburbanites.
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