Insatiable / Meg Cabot / 454 p.

Meg Cabot the Queen of YA / Chick Lit (The Princess Diaries, Queen of Babble, Avalon High) tries her hand at the Vampire novel marketed towards adult readers.  However, unlike most adult paranormal romances this book is much lighter, cleaner, and contains more descriptions of designer clothing than gratuitous scenes of sex, blood and gore.

The high point of the novel were the bits of humor that Cabot throws in like the main character's dog is named "Jack Bower" after the TV show "24"; and the tough Vampire Hunter affectionately calls his sword "Senior Sticky". 



Hey!!  10 extra "suck-up" points
if you can tell me what movie this
 bad-ass Vamp comes from. :)

 The downside was the author is just too chatty.  I wanted the characters to talk less and get on with the action or storyline.  Also the main character, Meena, who is suppose to be the independent modern women, always ends up needing to be saved by the men in her life.  And the love story is so cliche, right down to the sappy "heart-wrenching" breakup scene with the tortured hero being doused by Rain.   

So if you like your Vampires to be the whiny, eternal suffering goth-boy (aka Edward Cullen); then you'll like this book.  All I can say at least this vampire didn't "Sparkle"!