Demon in My View-Book Review #17

          Since I did promise another book review before my Halloween special, I decided to do one of my favorite books. Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is a fantastic book about teenage author Jessica Allodola. Jessica is a high school outcast who uses a pen name, Ash Night, so no one knows she is the author of the popular vampire book Tiger, Tiger. Demon in My View begins with her senior year and two new students seem to take an interest in Jessica, bubbly Caryn and brooding mysterious Alex.

          Long story short, Jessica realizes that the two new students are in fact two characters from her book, Alex is really Aubrey the vampire and Caryn is a witch. There isn't too much detail given as to how Jessica knew about the world of vampires and witches other then the explanation that Jessica's real mother was a vampire.

       I love this book mainly because the author who wrote it was 13 when she wrote the first book in the series, In the Forest of the Night. You don't have to read the first book in order to understand Demon in My View, the first book just gives you more insight to thee vampires and witches. I read Demon in My View before reading In the Forest of the Night  and I was fine. I read In the Forest of the Night because I wanted to know more about Aubrey. Another reason I love this book is because, as a writer, I love the idea of my book characters coming to life. I read this book quite a while ago when I was about 14 or 15 and I liked that it didn't fit your typical vampire novel. There is no romance or teen girl infatuation, the focus of the story is how Jessica relates to this vampire world and how her dreams allowed her to write this book about them. Although there might be a interest between Aubrey, that is not the main focus of the story.

          If you like stories where the book characters "come alive," with vampires, and witches without it being cheesy, I recommend this book.