Publisher: Flux (May 1, 2009)
Paperback: 240 Pages
Genre: YA Fantasy (Vampires)
Series: Vamped #1
From Goodreads.
Gina Covello's Perks and Pitfalls of Vamp Life
1. Hello?! Eternal youth and beauty!
2. Free. Designer. Clothes.
3. My hot new boyfriend Bobby went from chess dud to vamp stud.
4. No reflection! First order of business: turn my own stylist to stop the downward spiral from chic to eek.
5. Vampire vixen Mellisande has taken an interest in my boyfriend, and is now transforming the entire high school into her own personal vampire army. If anyone's going to start their own undead entourage it should be me.
I guess I'll just have to save everyone from fashion disasters and other fates worse than death.
Publisher: Flux (September 1, 2010)
Paperback: 240 Pages
Genre: YA Fantasy (Vampires)
Series: Vamped #2
From Goodreads.
Gina's Rules for Surviving Super Spy Club Training
1. First, the dirt and sweat are just too horrible to contemplate.
2. Unless you enjoy cold showers, be the first one to the bathroom in the morning.
3. Cargo pants make you look hip-py.
4. Making out on missions, unless it's part of your cover, is totally grounds for extra push-ups.
5. When going goth, you've totally got to strike words like totally, awesome, and phat from your vocabulary.
6. Who's actually running the Super Spy Club, you ask? I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
Review by Kate
The first two books in the Vamped series are fangtabulous (sorry I had to)!! Diver created some stellar characters and an even more awesome story. Gina Covello, teen fashionista, is now a vampire with a super hot and brainy boyfriend, Bobby (my new vamp crush!). These two find themselves in the center of the action because of a prophecy they are both involved in but are in the dark about what is to come.
In VAMPED, Gina woke up in her new vampire life. I loved her hilarious freak out moments about how she would be unable to see herself in a mirror. She definitely was not a mean girl but she had style, a bit of a 'tude, and she never let anyone put her down. And I loved the fact that the drama of the story wasn't created by a love triangle. There are so many books that use the romance as the main conflict, but this book was different. Bobby and Gina had a hot and heavy makeout session before she died and she woke up to her new life with a hottie boyfriend. They had legitimate feelings for each other, and explored them throughout the book.
Another different aspect of this book that I loved was that the main character, Gina, was not a focal point of the action. Bobby was the center of vampire prophecy and Gina started off just being another teenage vampire pawn in the grand scheme. I liked how Diver only revealed to the reader what Gina knew, which amped up the anticipation.
The end of the book was jammed packed with heart pumping action. Diver truly has talent for enabling the reading to fully visualize the action and at the end of this book I dug right in to Revamped.
Spoiler Alert: If you have not read Vamped, there may be spoilers ahead!!
REVAMPED, is the continuation of Gina's life new life as vampire. Gina, Bobby, and Rick are recruited to figure out the strange events occurring at a school. They all go undercover as students to try and solve the mystery.
Gina infiltrated the goth group (where her fashionista-self successfully shined, even with little color in her wardrobe) and made fast friends. I loved getting to know the new characters in the goth group. An old villain resurfaced along with an even older one, and I was anxious to see who would make it out alive or as alive as a vampire could be.
Another thing that I thought was really creative, and I hope to see more in the future books, was the new formula of blood that Gina and Bobby had to drink. It helped them keep daylight hours with minimal vampire-effects. I'd be interested to see if the formula develops into something else.
I can't say which book I liked better since I felt they were totally different from one another. Vamped was more of testing the boundaries of Gina's vampire powers, and Revamped explored her execution of what she had learned. Where Vamped was action-y, Revamped was more of a detective story that built up to an insane conclusion, and Gina learning who was really on her side.
Overall, this is a great start to this series. Diver takes vampires to a whole new level and I am quite excited to read the third book in the series, Fangtastic.
Cover note: I really loved the Vamped cover; it held the typical version of a vampire but added the fashionista taste of Gina. But honestly, I was not too impressed with the Revamped cover, I understand what they were going for, but those nails are downright creepy. It didn't have any effect on how much I loved the book though! :)
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