Saltwater Vampires by Kirsty Eagar
Penguin books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-14-301146-0.
(Age: 14+) For Jamie Mackie, summer holidays in the coastal town of
Rocky Head means surfing, day or night. Surfing in the early hours of
the morning is asking for trouble for anyone but Jamie gets more than
what he has asked for when he goes for a surf. With one bite to
his neck things are going to change for Jamie and his friends. Vampires
from the wreck of the Batavia are in Rocky Head and they have plans on
crashing the annual New Year's music festival. If their plans succeed,
nobody in Rocky Head will survive to see the New Year.
Saltwater Vampires is based on the coastline of Western
Australia and
is a real Aussie novel. It is a really enjoyable novel
to read. Eagar has created a wonderful narrative that has the vampires
as the unlikeable characters in the storyline unlike the other vampire
novels that are out on the shelves. I bet this novel could end up on
the top ten list to read for teenagers.
Lauren Pfeiffer - 17 years old