Bloodthirsty

Description

Fifteen-year-old Finbar Frame seriously missed out in the gene-pool stakes as his twin brother Luke got the good looks, athletic ability and pigmentation. Finbar is tall, skinny, pale and pretty much allergic to the sun - and sadly, teenage girls don't appreciate Finbar's sensitive skin or his sensitive soul. But when a move to a new school converges with a cultural trend romanticising vampires, Finbar seizes the opportunity. He'll become a vampire! Or at least fake it...to get a date. Wickedly smart and laugh-out-loud funny.

Flynn Meaney is a published poet and writer, and an alumna of the University of Notre Dame. She was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and her young adult novella, Bennett Riley, appeared in Cicada Magazine in September 2007. She was a semi-finalist in Amazon's 2009 Breakthrough Novel Contest with Mouthing the Alma Mater.Flynn says she was inspired to write Bloodthirsty by a broad love of pop culture vampires, especially HBO's True Blood, but the final catalyst was a comment from a friend, 'Now that vampires are so hot, we can stop tanning.'