Reviewed by Michaela Pallante aka "Mickey" for TeensReadToo.com

Cody Elliot has just moved to Massachusetts from California. He hates his new town of New Sodom and is proud of his report card full of F's (even in homeroom). His dad, not so proud. Cody gets sent to a new school, Vlad Dracul.

It doesn't take long for Cody to realize that something is different about his fellow students. They wear sunglasses inside, they are strangely silent, and seem to be super-smart. After he sees someone's fangs he realizes the obvious- his classmates are vampires.

Most people would be creeped out by this, but not Cody. As it turns out, going to school with vampires is pretty sweet. Cody doesn't have to do much of anything. He gets free A's, a free ride through college, a free ride through life basically. All he has to do is get in the pool and pretend to play water polo once and a while.

It's when Cody decides to try to get real grades, make some friends, and actually try to win a game of water polo that things start to get messy. Vampires don't like messy very much. For Cody, life is about to get really interesting.

This book was really good, very hard to put down. It had a great plot and is full of mystery. I would suggest it to anyone who is a fan of vampires. ( )

Humor and real teen issues make this a different type of vampire novel. Endearing. ( )

Rebelling against his parents’ recent move from California to the dreary town of New Sodom in Massachusetts, Cody Elliot has managed to secure failing grades in all of his classes. However, instead of packing up and moving like Cody wants, his father decides to enroll him in another school, the Vlad Dracul Magnet School, a fancy public high school populated by tall, pale students who wear sunglasses. The only requirement for Cody to get in: he has to be on the school’s water polo team – a game he’s never played, but the headmaster only cares that Cody can get into the pool. It’s not before long that Cody discovers his classmates are all highly intelligent vampires who only need him to be on the water polo team since vampires are afraid of water. In exchange for looking the other way of his fanged classmates, Cody is promised unconditional straight A’s, college scholarships, and a life on easy street – the only problem is Cody is now rebelling Vlad Dracul’s ways and trying to make his participation in the school matter.
Vampire stories are quite trendy now so this book could definitely appeal to teens into that genre, but the book also had great humor, characters, and never took the subject matter too seriously so I would also recommend it as a quick fun read for just about anyone. There are also themes involving friendship, “forbidden love,” and isolation – but even the more serious topics are done in a very tongue-in-cheek way. An entertaining and gentle read. ( )

well i like that he gets the girl and meet a lot of friends and get to now some vimpires and that he lives in a really old town that there are some nice house. like when he saves he friend because he needs blood and take his friend to there friends party so she can be happy. ( )

This is a fun and original take on the traditional tale of a high school misfit. Corey, a normal human boy, finds himself sent to the local, unacknowledged vampire high school, after he refuses to do any school work at all at the regular high school in his new home town. Vlad Dracul High is only slightly less scary than Our Lady of Perpetual Homework, but Corey becomes determined to make things work at VD. His struggle grows, as he tries to make the teachers, the students, and the administration accept him and his work for who he is. Rees throws in the never-tired Romeo and Juliet scenario and the book comes to an ultimately unsurprising but fun conclusion. ( )