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Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe) (Sucks to Be Me #1)
by
Kimberly Pauley (Goodreads Author)
Mina Hamilton's parents want her dead. (Or undead to be precise.) They're vampires, and like it or not, Mina must decide whether to become a vampire herself. But Mina's more interested in hanging out with best friend Serena and trying to catch the eye of the too-hot-for-high-school Nathan Able than in the vampire training classes she's being forced to take. How's a girl su...more
Hardcover, 293 pages
Published
August 26th 2008
by Mirrorstone
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Being a high school student is stressful all by itself. Crushes, friendships, homework, the list goes on and on, but for Mina Hamilton life just got a little more complicated. You see, Mina’s parents are vampires. Her dad was accidently turned by her Uncle Mortie and since her mother was pregnant with her at the time, she waited to become a vampire until after Mina was born. The problem?? Mina’s parents never told The Council about having a baby and humans are NEVER supposed to find out about va...more
Reviewed by Julie M. Prince for TeensReadToo.com
Mina Hamilton has a major life (or death) decision to make, and only a few weeks in which to decide. Should she, or should she not, become a vampire? It seems like a no-brainer. I mean, Buffy would know in, like, a split second. But, having vampire parents sort of complicates matters.
This highly humorous novel puts a new spin on the teen vampire tale. Mina is a typical high school student whose extra-curricular activities are no more exciting than...more
Mina Hamilton has a major life (or death) decision to make, and only a few weeks in which to decide. Should she, or should she not, become a vampire? It seems like a no-brainer. I mean, Buffy would know in, like, a split second. But, having vampire parents sort of complicates matters.
This highly humorous novel puts a new spin on the teen vampire tale. Mina is a typical high school student whose extra-curricular activities are no more exciting than...more
Sucks to be Me - the All-True confessions of Mina Hamilton Teen Vampire (maybe)
There are a LOT of Teen Vampire novels on the market now and I think I've read about 3/4 of them. This one is a worthy addition to the genre. Mina's voice is so clearly just a normal teen girl with loving parents (who happen to be vampires) and a best friend (who she can't confide in regarding the whole vampire thing) and a crush on a boy or two (one of whom is totally into the vampire thing, and one of whom isn't).
S...more
There are a LOT of Teen Vampire novels on the market now and I think I've read about 3/4 of them. This one is a worthy addition to the genre. Mina's voice is so clearly just a normal teen girl with loving parents (who happen to be vampires) and a best friend (who she can't confide in regarding the whole vampire thing) and a crush on a boy or two (one of whom is totally into the vampire thing, and one of whom isn't).
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This debut novel by Pauley is a cute and quick read about 16 year old Mina(yup, just like in Dracula) who must decide in 4 weeks whether she wants to become a vampire or not. She's the illegal child of two vampires (Dad got turned right before she was born, Mom joined him shortly after), so it's not like she's not used to the concept. Except now the Vampire Council has found them and is forcing her family to go by the rules, which include pre-turn classes for Mina, complete with career days, and...more
Sep 11, 2008
Judi
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who enjoys young adult vampire/paranormal romance
Mina Hamilton is your everyday teenager, thinking about the usual things that teenage girls do (i.e. boys & school), and the not so usual (i.e. her vampire parents.) She gets slammed with a life-changing decision and not a lot of time to make it![return][return]I found this book to be funny while dealing with the paranormal and the main character is spunky and a little snarky which made for a fun, light read. The vampires aren� t too � dark� and the teens are full of life and quirkiness. A s...more
Mina is 16 years old and a junior in high school. To make matters even more interesting, her family's unique make-up is really coming to a head. Don't tell anyone, but her parents and her Uncle Mortie are all vampires. It is a long story, but they have been keeping that a secret in order to avoid getting the attention of the Vampire Council because they want to make sure they can lead as normal a life for Mina as possible.
The council has rules that are very important to keep vamp society safe. T...more
The council has rules that are very important to keep vamp society safe. T...more
Any book that disses Stephenie "Feh" Meyer on the very first page is gonna get extra brownie points from me, even if the rest turns out to be totally lame...
..but it wasn't.
This book is not going to get millions of millions of teenage girls sighing over it. It is not going to be made into a multi million dollar movie. I don't know if there will be a sequel, but if there is, it will not have a midnight opening with balloons and hoopla.
Thank God.
With few exceptions, of late the vampire books have...more
..but it wasn't.
This book is not going to get millions of millions of teenage girls sighing over it. It is not going to be made into a multi million dollar movie. I don't know if there will be a sequel, but if there is, it will not have a midnight opening with balloons and hoopla.
Thank God.
With few exceptions, of late the vampire books have...more
Mina Hamilton has a good life. A best friend who she can share her secrets and dreams with…even if she is in a Goth stage right now, and loving parents who would do anything for her. Well, anything except be human. They’re vampires and have been since Mina was a baby, and now that the Vampire Council has found out that they have a human child it is time for her to decide - stay human or become a vampire. What a choice to make when you are only 16.
But, she agrees to at least go to the vampire cla...more
But, she agrees to at least go to the vampire cla...more
Not much to actually say about this particular novel. Light, easy read. A bit of a time waster if you're over the age of 13/14.
The concept was interesting enough. I didn't hate 'the game' entirely, I hated 'the players'. The protagonist wasn't horrible to listen to, however, all other featured characters we're completely one dimensional. I don't mean to be critical, but I just felt the idea itself had a bit more potential, so it was disappointing. Basically, for some odd reason, I didn't actuall...more
The concept was interesting enough. I didn't hate 'the game' entirely, I hated 'the players'. The protagonist wasn't horrible to listen to, however, all other featured characters we're completely one dimensional. I don't mean to be critical, but I just felt the idea itself had a bit more potential, so it was disappointing. Basically, for some odd reason, I didn't actuall...more
This is a title hot on the heels of the recent vampire/supernatural craze pulsing through bookstores across the country. This is a young adult novel with a different sort of "coming of age" conflict. Mina has to decide whether or not she wants to become a vampire like the rest of her family.
Overall, it's a moderately interesting hook and the presentation is done well. The book is written in a close first person and told almost as a journal entry. There are moments where "notebook pages" or other...more
Overall, it's a moderately interesting hook and the presentation is done well. The book is written in a close first person and told almost as a journal entry. There are moments where "notebook pages" or other...more
What would happen if you found out your parents really do suck? Uh, like being vampires? Mina Hamilton finds this out and even worse she has to go to Vampire school to help her decide if she wants to change too. Add a crazy uncle, a hottie wannabe vampire, and a friend that she shares everything, well, maybe not everything with. Plus, Mina finds out that her English teacher wants the class to read Dracula. Boy, talk about giving vampires a bad name!
This is hilarious tale shows a teen who must ma...more
This is hilarious tale shows a teen who must ma...more
Mina’s always known that her parents were vampires. What she didn’t know was that The Northwest Regional Vampire Council didn’t know about her until an unexpected visitor reported a non-vampire living in their household. Since the council states that no human is allowed to know that vampires really exist, Mina now only has 5 weeks to decide if she wants to follow in her parent’s footsteps by becoming a vampire or have her entire life’s memory erased.
In order to help Mina with her decision, The...more
In order to help Mina with her decision, The...more
Eh.
Mina was whiny, incompetent, and a bit of a moron - half the plot of the book could have been resolved with two simple conversations and the basic ability to read social cues.
(That is: if Mina and her "do everything together, finish each other's sentences, are totally and completely in sync" best friend had at any point discussed what they were thinking re: the guys in their lives; if Mina had sat down and asked her parents "would you like to see me become a vampire?", especially after talkin...more
Mina was whiny, incompetent, and a bit of a moron - half the plot of the book could have been resolved with two simple conversations and the basic ability to read social cues.
(That is: if Mina and her "do everything together, finish each other's sentences, are totally and completely in sync" best friend had at any point discussed what they were thinking re: the guys in their lives; if Mina had sat down and asked her parents "would you like to see me become a vampire?", especially after talkin...more
At the end of Mina Hamilton’s junior year in high school, she is faced with the biggest decision of her life: whether or not to become a vampire. To make it worse, the only guidance she has comes from her slightly crazy uncle Mortie and a vampire class taught by good old Grandma Wolfington (okay, her real name is Ms. Riley) that Mina is forced to take. And just because she is named after a character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula doesn’t make this enormous decision any easier.
This novel opens with a...more
This novel opens with a...more
I never thought I'd say this- but this is a fresh, funny and absorbing spin on the done-to-death (no pun intended)theme of vampires. Mina's character is believably 16, the adults in her life supportive and caring, and her social life and its teen dramas realistic enough to make me have some of my own flashback cringes! YA FIC clean enough for anyone, interesting for guys and girls.
Girl power - hold the angst (well, most of it anyways). This was a delightful read with a catchy premise. The author kept the mood light even when the subject at hand was, at times, serious.
Campy fun without any of the gothic melodrama of Twilight. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed every page of the Twilight series. But I laughed so much more with Sucks...
I'll be looking for more from Ms. Pauley.
Campy fun without any of the gothic melodrama of Twilight. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed every page of the Twilight series. But I laughed so much more with Sucks...
I'll be looking for more from Ms. Pauley.
I know, I know - another teen vampire book. There have been all too many of these released lately, much like the swarm of magic books after Harry Potter. But, that aside, this was actually a pretty good book. Mina (named after the character in Dracula) has always known her parents are vampires, but now she's being forced to decide whether she wants to become a vampire herself. To prepare for the decision, Mina is enrolled in classes, where she learns about the history of vampires, rules of condu...more
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Možná je to v této době jakýsi trend, ale kniha Pijou mi krev se opět zabývá stále omílaným tématem - upíry. Plusem pro autorku je, že přišla opět s něčím jiným, novým. V této knize se můžete stát upírem dobrovolně, nebudete pouze krvežíznivou příšerou a už vůbec se nebudete třpytit na slunci. Budete mít normální práci, přátele, budete bydlet v obyčejném domě v normálním sousedství a váš život bude jenom trvat o trochu déle.
Mininy rodiče jsou upíři. A chtějí, aby Mina také jedním z nich stala. M...more
Mininy rodiče jsou upíři. A chtějí, aby Mina také jedním z nich stala. M...more
I really tried to give this book a fair chance but 30 pages in and I already knew that this book and I were going to be a bad match. Why? Before we get into that, let me just say real quick what I liked about this book so my review doesn't come across as being too trollish.
1. The cover. Well, actually, the adorable bat on the back. It's so cute. I want a plushie of it. No, a dozen. In a rainbow of colors! Sooooo cute!
2. ...um. That's about it, really. Wait. No. Making the vampire club the "phleb...more
1. The cover. Well, actually, the adorable bat on the back. It's so cute. I want a plushie of it. No, a dozen. In a rainbow of colors! Sooooo cute!
2. ...um. That's about it, really. Wait. No. Making the vampire club the "phleb...more
I think I hated this book starting at about the second paragraph, but spent enough chapters in complete denial that I was a quarter of the way through before I realized why this book and I were not a good match for each other.
There are many ways to do snarky vampire novels well. For example, Christopher Moore writes amazingly hilarious vampire fiction that is successful because he has enough experience with tropes in the genre to weave together a narrative that pokes fun at them without the char...more
There are many ways to do snarky vampire novels well. For example, Christopher Moore writes amazingly hilarious vampire fiction that is successful because he has enough experience with tropes in the genre to weave together a narrative that pokes fun at them without the char...more
Sucks to be Me by Kimberly Pauley gave us a different approach to the whole vampire craze. Mina, the protagonist, isn't a vampire to start with or the girl who wants to be a vampire/wants to be with a vampire. Instead, she's a normal girl who is forced to choose whether or not she wants to be converted. With Mina, you get a pretty strong female lead in that she knows who she is and isn't afraid of standing up to others. While she suffers from the typical girl problems of a teenager, she finds a...more
Honestly I found this book very lacking. I randomly took it off the shelf because I needed a book to read during SSR in english class. Mina was clueless, the other characters were there as if they were background pieces, and there wasn't near enough tension. If it had been more than mildly funny, I would have given this a two or a three.
The notes at the beginning of the chapters were really what I looked forward too, although the lists and doodles got annoying. The plot was too predictable.
Ther...more
The notes at the beginning of the chapters were really what I looked forward too, although the lists and doodles got annoying. The plot was too predictable.
Ther...more
Mina lives a normal teenager's life...except for the fact that her parents are vampires. After other vampires find out that her parents are living with a non-vampire, they are given an ultimatum: Mina must choose whether or not she wants to become a vampire.
After enrolling in vampire lessons, Mina works through the biggest decision of her life while balancing her best friend, crushes and class.
Told in a fun, believable new voice, Sucks to Be Me isn't a highly original novel, but puts a cute twis...more
After enrolling in vampire lessons, Mina works through the biggest decision of her life while balancing her best friend, crushes and class.
Told in a fun, believable new voice, Sucks to Be Me isn't a highly original novel, but puts a cute twis...more
I really loved Sucks To Be Me! Mina had such an awesome voice, full of sarcasm, and I laughed at all her random lists of vampire pros and cons! Each chapter opened with a small vampire myth debunked a la Mina - which often made me giggle at what a smart mouth she had!
From page 26
Myth: Vampires are so strong, they could pick up a bus.
Truth: Yeah, but when's the last time you wished you could pick up a bus?
To top it all off, there were the cutest doodles attached to these myths and lists that b...more
From page 26
Myth: Vampires are so strong, they could pick up a bus.
Truth: Yeah, but when's the last time you wished you could pick up a bus?
To top it all off, there were the cutest doodles attached to these myths and lists that b...more
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O.M.G! This book was BEYOND adorable, and has been added to my favorite book reads of 2010.
Mina Hamilton is a senior and finds out that her vampire parents may be in trouble for having Mina living them since she is a non-vampire. Now she is required to attend vampire classes over 4 weeks to learn the ways, and make the decision to become a vamp or not. It totally sucks for Mina because she can never tell her best friend Serena, or even her long time crush Nathan about the classes.
In the classes...more
Mina Hamilton is a senior and finds out that her vampire parents may be in trouble for having Mina living them since she is a non-vampire. Now she is required to attend vampire classes over 4 weeks to learn the ways, and make the decision to become a vamp or not. It totally sucks for Mina because she can never tell her best friend Serena, or even her long time crush Nathan about the classes.
In the classes...more
Dec 06, 2010
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This story Sucks To Be Me is about a teenager name Mina Hamilton. She’s 16 years old. Being a high school student might be stressful where you get a lot of homework, crushes and other things; but this teenager life was more complicated and weird. Her parents were vampires! Her father turned as a vampire by his uncle Mortie; but noone knew how.Really strange. By the time he was a vampire Mina mother couldn’t turn like one because she was pregnant by Mina by the time. Mina mother waited to become...more
I have to admit that I like this book. If only because I use it as a mind-numbing agent when I'm stressed because of school exams or tae kwon-do gradings or my hospital work. The writing and the writing style weren't really that good, the plot is obvious at worst, and the characters are annoying at best. However, I did kind of like the ending - because Mina became a vampire! So many other books would either have dodged it for three books (that means you, Twilight) or have just not done it at all...more
Clearly written well after the Twilight craze, this particular foray into the vamp genre takes a few stabs at its own kind. Mina has known that her parents were vampires her whole life and it's been kinda tough keeping it a secret. Then she's informed that she must make the choice of whether or not to become a vampire in just a few weeks. Which is even harder to keep a secret.
And that's about it for conflict in this one. There were a few things I liked about this book and a few others that I did...more
And that's about it for conflict in this one. There were a few things I liked about this book and a few others that I did...more
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KIMBERLY PAULEY is the author of the award-winning Sucks to Be Me, which was honored on the YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers list. The sequel, Still Sucks to Be Me, was listed on the VOYA Best Science Fiction Fantasy List of 2010. Born in California, she has lived everywhere from Florida to Chicago and has now gone international to live in London with her husband (a numbers man) and the cut...more
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