BoTW: Suck It Up

Suck it Up by Brian Meehl is yet another vampire book in the crowded vampire sub-genre of fantasy and realistic fiction books. The story focuses on Morning McCobb, a teenage vampire who guzzles a blood soy-substitute rather than sink his fangs into real people. He belongs to the IVLeague, an organization of vampires who preach a message of tolerance and inclusion between vampire and humankind. Morning isn't interested in being a "traditional" vampire. He doesn't dress and in black and red, doesn't sport a massive cape, nor does he spring from a coffin at dusk and declare, "Good evening" or "Blah, blah, blah!"

Instead, Morning wants to bring vampires into the social mainstream. He wants slobbering, pointy-fanged blood-suckers to hang out with average Joe's, their mothers, their grandmas. Opposing Morning's social dream is a Loner by the name of DeThanatos. Loners are rogue vampires who almost always live apart from their fellow vampires and view humans as bipedal grazing cattle. DeThanatos hates the IVLeague and all its vampire members and does everything in his power to bring it down and prevent vampire integration into human society. While Morning sees a future of social harmony and goodwill, DeThanatos still enjoys biting people and thinks vampires evolutionarily superior to humans.

To make matters worse, Morning really likes a girl he just met, Portia Dredful. She's human, but brings out the Loner in Morning. Does Morning manage to defeat DeThanatos and bring vampires and humans together? Can Morning control his vampire heritage and win Portia as his girlfriend? Read Suck It Up and find out!