This one was better than the first, but still not fabulous. She could have taken the whole series and put them in one volume of connected short stories. I do like Aubrey as a character though. And it was interested to find out about Jessica's mother and how she is able to get into the minds of the vampires.

Sequel to In the Forests of the Night.

Jessica is shunned by everyone at school, but she doesn't care. She prefers the vampire characters she writes about. When a character from one of her books, Aubrey, shows up at school, Jessica is forced to consider that her vampires might actually be real.

An interesting tidbit is the fact that certain vampires become stronger than average because they become vampires unwillingly. The more they fight the change, the stronger they eventually become. I thought that was a nice touch.

Now Jessica has revealed many secrets of the vampires and several are out to get her. She must choose death or to become one herself. ( )

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

Jessica Allodola, a senior at Ramsa High School, is not your average teenager. Under the pen name Ash Night, Jessica has already published a vampire novel entitled TIGER, TIGER. She also has a pretty mean spirit, goes mostly ignored by her fellow students, and acts mostly indignantly towards her adopted mother.

The problem is that with the arrival of two new students in school, Caryn and Alex, her book seems to be coming to life. Caryn claims to be a witch, descended from the Smoke line that Jessica wrote about in her book. Alex, a spitting image for her anti-hero, Aubrey, might very well be a vampire. And suddenly life starts to get a whole lot more confusing.

DEMON IN MY VIEW is an entertaining vampire story, but it never gains the potential it might have if the story was fleshed out a bit more. Although Jessica's fiction begins to merge with real life, the chapters of the book are short, and the characters, though interesting, aren't as well-rounded as they could have been. What really irritated me about the book was the ending.

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Aubrey turns Jessica into a vampire to save her life, but there's no resolution after that. Wham..she's a vampire..the end. I would have liked to have seen how the story progressed.

Overall, DEMON IN MY VIEW is a quick, fun read, but it's definitely not the best young adult vampire story out there. ( )

2008 ( )

Moved a little fast, Jessica's frustration and confrontation with Aubrey is a little too contrived, but otherwise an amazing book from a young author, the concept was fantastic and the links between this one story to the entire mythos of the world Rhodes has created showed early on how great of an author she would become. ( )