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Vamped #3
Fangtastic
Top Five Perks of Gina Covello's New Super-Secret Mission
• The five-alarm-fire hotties. A few degrees below my genius boyfriend Bobby, of course.
• The wannabe vamps love me. An entourage, finally!
• Fashion tips from the steampunk crowd.
• Putting a stop to the brutal killings—which only look like the work of vamps—in Tampa, Florida.
• Finding out just what the Feds are hiding. . . Guantanamo Bay of the undead?
• The five-alarm-fire hotties. A few degrees below my genius boyfriend Bobby, of course.
• The wannabe vamps love me. An entourage, finally!
• Fashion tips from the steampunk crowd.
• Putting a stop to the brutal killings—which only look like the work of vamps—in Tampa, Florida.
• Finding out just what the Feds are hiding. . . Guantanamo Bay of the undead?
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First published January 8, 2012
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About the author
Lucienne Diver
31 books522 followersLucienne Diver has written snark and suspense with her Vamped YA series featuring a teen fashionista who goes from chic to eek when she wakes up as one of the undead, her Latter-Day Olympians series featuring a heroine who can, quite literally, stop men in their tracks, and her YA suspense novels, Faultlines, The Countdown Club and Disappeared.
The Shadow Girls, her new epic fantasy, which David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson calls, “thrilling, powerful, redemptive, and exquisitely written,” is darker in tone. In a country that’s been at war for six years due to the supposed poisoning of the king of Jucar by his queen from their rival Frizenze, three women are about to rebel against their treatment and, with allies gained along the way, fight to reshape the face of power. The problem is, one of the women is quite mad, and she is in line for the crown. The trilogy continues with The Whisper Kin (2025) and The Illuminated Lands (2026).
The Shadow Girls is close to Lucienne’s heart, touching on feminist and gender issues, LGBTQIA+ themes and climatological fantasy. Both the religion and magical system are based on animism, the spirit in all things, but also the universal spirit, the All. The mageri, the great magic men who raid the anima for the power to create their battlefield constructs to crush their enemies, are killing the land, creating deprivation and disease. And…well, much, much more.
Interested in learning more? To interview Lucienne Diver, contact her at luciennediver@gmail.com.
The Shadow Girls, her new epic fantasy, which David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson calls, “thrilling, powerful, redemptive, and exquisitely written,” is darker in tone. In a country that’s been at war for six years due to the supposed poisoning of the king of Jucar by his queen from their rival Frizenze, three women are about to rebel against their treatment and, with allies gained along the way, fight to reshape the face of power. The problem is, one of the women is quite mad, and she is in line for the crown. The trilogy continues with The Whisper Kin (2025) and The Illuminated Lands (2026).
The Shadow Girls is close to Lucienne’s heart, touching on feminist and gender issues, LGBTQIA+ themes and climatological fantasy. Both the religion and magical system are based on animism, the spirit in all things, but also the universal spirit, the All. The mageri, the great magic men who raid the anima for the power to create their battlefield constructs to crush their enemies, are killing the land, creating deprivation and disease. And…well, much, much more.
Interested in learning more? To interview Lucienne Diver, contact her at luciennediver@gmail.com.
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February 4, 2012
This book is the third in a series of YA vampire novels. Each book (VAMPED, REVAMPED, and now FANGTASTIC) is better than the last. Diver's snarky teen diva turned reluctant Fed is a fun and unique protagonist, and her quirky team of cohorts remind me of an undead Scooby gang. The action is fast and furious, and the book is a quick and easy read, suitable for anyone from a reluctant reader to an adult reader looking for something amusing and different. Highly recommended.
April 15, 2012
Gina Covella, the Macy's-worshipping teen fashionista from Ohio turned vampire after an imprudent neck-nibbling, is back for a third adventure, and it's a delight. Author Lucienne Diver improves with each new book, and her characters are growing and becoming more real and likeable as the series continues.
Fangtastic launches right into the action one week after the conclusion of ReVamped, during which the young vampire team have been recuperating with spa treatments and pedicures (well, Gina and her friend Marcy, at least, Bobby not so much). They're yanked out of their R&R by news reports of a grisly multiple murder of a family in Tampa, Florida. The Feds who "handle" the young vampires tell them that the chief suspect in the murders is a seventeen-year-old high school student who hangs out with the "vampire community" in the area.
By that, they don't mean undead vampires like Gina, but, as one Fed explains, "people who behave like vampires--both energy vampires and bloodsuckers with prosthetic fangs" who frequent a Goth club in Tampa. The twist is that the club itself is owned and run by real vampires, the ones who are so interested in Gina and Bobby. The Feds tell the V-team that they have two objectives: catch the perpetrators of the murder, and infiltrate the group of vampires running the club. To do both, their plan is to have Gina get in to see the vampires and promise them that she'll persuade Bobby to join them if they'll cooperate with her.
In short order (no offense intended to five-foot-tall Gina), the team and their "handlers" are all down in Tampa, with false names and identities and a rockin' Goth wardrobe to get into the club. Gina quickly hits it off with some of the "human vampires," but within minutes she's been spotted by the real vamps thanks to not showing up on security cameras. She makes her scripted proposal only to wind up locked in a cell in the club basement.
The plot from here is almost as complicated as the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and readers are advised to stay alert. You probably won't be surprised that the Feds end up not being what they seem, and the V-Team is in one big world of trouble. They get some help from an unexpected source, however, and Gina discovers some vampire talents that she never realized she had.
Although this book, like the first two, is YA, Diver dials up the heat level a bit with more directly suggested (although still off-screen) romantic activity between Gina and Bobby, as well as Marcy and one of the Feds who gets attached to her. While it makes sense for the characters as their relationship evolves, Gina does get just a bit obsessive over Bobby and all his wonderful qualities, and the atmosphere sometimes thickens toward the steamy side.
Fangtastic ends with all the characters and the plot very much in motion. I'm intensely interested to see what happens next.
Fangtastic launches right into the action one week after the conclusion of ReVamped, during which the young vampire team have been recuperating with spa treatments and pedicures (well, Gina and her friend Marcy, at least, Bobby not so much). They're yanked out of their R&R by news reports of a grisly multiple murder of a family in Tampa, Florida. The Feds who "handle" the young vampires tell them that the chief suspect in the murders is a seventeen-year-old high school student who hangs out with the "vampire community" in the area.
By that, they don't mean undead vampires like Gina, but, as one Fed explains, "people who behave like vampires--both energy vampires and bloodsuckers with prosthetic fangs" who frequent a Goth club in Tampa. The twist is that the club itself is owned and run by real vampires, the ones who are so interested in Gina and Bobby. The Feds tell the V-team that they have two objectives: catch the perpetrators of the murder, and infiltrate the group of vampires running the club. To do both, their plan is to have Gina get in to see the vampires and promise them that she'll persuade Bobby to join them if they'll cooperate with her.
In short order (no offense intended to five-foot-tall Gina), the team and their "handlers" are all down in Tampa, with false names and identities and a rockin' Goth wardrobe to get into the club. Gina quickly hits it off with some of the "human vampires," but within minutes she's been spotted by the real vamps thanks to not showing up on security cameras. She makes her scripted proposal only to wind up locked in a cell in the club basement.
The plot from here is almost as complicated as the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and readers are advised to stay alert. You probably won't be surprised that the Feds end up not being what they seem, and the V-Team is in one big world of trouble. They get some help from an unexpected source, however, and Gina discovers some vampire talents that she never realized she had.
Although this book, like the first two, is YA, Diver dials up the heat level a bit with more directly suggested (although still off-screen) romantic activity between Gina and Bobby, as well as Marcy and one of the Feds who gets attached to her. While it makes sense for the characters as their relationship evolves, Gina does get just a bit obsessive over Bobby and all his wonderful qualities, and the atmosphere sometimes thickens toward the steamy side.
Fangtastic ends with all the characters and the plot very much in motion. I'm intensely interested to see what happens next.
April 23, 2012
*Rating* 3.0
*Genre* YA UF
*Synopsis*
Top Five Perks of Gina Covello's New Super-Secret Mission
• The five-alarm-fire hotties. A few degrees below my genius boyfriend Bobby, of course.
• The wannabe vamps love me. An entourage, finally!
• Fashion tips from the steampunk crowd.
• Putting a stop to the brutal killings—which only look like the work of vamps—in Tampa, Florida.
• Finding out just what the Feds are hiding. . . Guantanamo Bay of the undead
*Review*
Fangtastic, by Lucienne Diver, is the third book in the Vamped series. The series features 16 year old Gina Covella who is a newbie vampire and a major fashionista. Fangtastic picks up one week after the events of ReVamped.
Gina, her best friend Marcy, her boyfriend and sire Bobby are now working for a secret branch of the government that handles all things supernatural. After spending a week getting everything from facials, to pedicures done, Gina and her Ju-Ju brigade are called in to handle reports of murders in Tampa, Florida.
If you haven’t read this series before, then you wouldn’t know that Gina is on the vampire council’s hit list as enemy number one. They either want her captured or killed outright. Yet, this time around she is expected to play possum in order to lure out those responsible for the grisly murders. In doing so, she is supposed to give up Bobby in order to gain their trust and to learn who is responsible for the killings.
In the overall scheme of things, Gina realizes that the people she works for have been hiding some really important information from her brigade. The realization leaves this story with a minor cliffhanger that should be answered when Fangtabulous releases January 2013.
Overall, this book is a combination of romance, mystery, and suspense. The romance is seriously heating up between Gina and Bobby. It hasn’t crossed into any en fuego sex scenes yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.
The most interesting part of the story was the fact that Gina comes into her own superpowers that are actually pretty amazing. Let’s just say that turning into a bat is so boring compared to what she can do now.
*Genre* YA UF
*Synopsis*
Top Five Perks of Gina Covello's New Super-Secret Mission
• The five-alarm-fire hotties. A few degrees below my genius boyfriend Bobby, of course.
• The wannabe vamps love me. An entourage, finally!
• Fashion tips from the steampunk crowd.
• Putting a stop to the brutal killings—which only look like the work of vamps—in Tampa, Florida.
• Finding out just what the Feds are hiding. . . Guantanamo Bay of the undead
*Review*
Fangtastic, by Lucienne Diver, is the third book in the Vamped series. The series features 16 year old Gina Covella who is a newbie vampire and a major fashionista. Fangtastic picks up one week after the events of ReVamped.
Gina, her best friend Marcy, her boyfriend and sire Bobby are now working for a secret branch of the government that handles all things supernatural. After spending a week getting everything from facials, to pedicures done, Gina and her Ju-Ju brigade are called in to handle reports of murders in Tampa, Florida.
If you haven’t read this series before, then you wouldn’t know that Gina is on the vampire council’s hit list as enemy number one. They either want her captured or killed outright. Yet, this time around she is expected to play possum in order to lure out those responsible for the grisly murders. In doing so, she is supposed to give up Bobby in order to gain their trust and to learn who is responsible for the killings.
In the overall scheme of things, Gina realizes that the people she works for have been hiding some really important information from her brigade. The realization leaves this story with a minor cliffhanger that should be answered when Fangtabulous releases January 2013.
Overall, this book is a combination of romance, mystery, and suspense. The romance is seriously heating up between Gina and Bobby. It hasn’t crossed into any en fuego sex scenes yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.
The most interesting part of the story was the fact that Gina comes into her own superpowers that are actually pretty amazing. Let’s just say that turning into a bat is so boring compared to what she can do now.
March 9, 2012
I can say that this was a refreshing read for me. Nothing too heavy and I love Gina's humor and personality, as crude as it may be.
Gina's on another mission for the feds and is Undesirable #1 on the Vamps list. Gina, Bobby and her BFF end up moving to Florida to hunt down a human posing as a vampire. He has created a gang and is killing humans and pretending to be a vampire. So Gina and her gang have to find out where he is and turn him in. They end up infiltrating this club full of people pretending to be vampires. I don't even think most of the humans really believe the vamps exist.
Gina gets suspicious of the feds, and who can really blame her. She does some investigating of her own along the way that proves very interesting. There are a lot of secrets she learns too. We also learn about several new powers that different people/vamps posses. Fangtastic did not disappoint with the action one bit. Gina is getting shot, beat, burnt or attacked around every turn it seems. Her romance heats up even more with Bobby, although sadly they have no time to be alone together.
I was glad to read at the end that there will be another book. This is good because it was left on a mild cliff hanger.
Gina's on another mission for the feds and is Undesirable #1 on the Vamps list. Gina, Bobby and her BFF end up moving to Florida to hunt down a human posing as a vampire. He has created a gang and is killing humans and pretending to be a vampire. So Gina and her gang have to find out where he is and turn him in. They end up infiltrating this club full of people pretending to be vampires. I don't even think most of the humans really believe the vamps exist.
Gina gets suspicious of the feds, and who can really blame her. She does some investigating of her own along the way that proves very interesting. There are a lot of secrets she learns too. We also learn about several new powers that different people/vamps posses. Fangtastic did not disappoint with the action one bit. Gina is getting shot, beat, burnt or attacked around every turn it seems. Her romance heats up even more with Bobby, although sadly they have no time to be alone together.
I was glad to read at the end that there will be another book. This is good because it was left on a mild cliff hanger.
January 6, 2012
I loved this Kick-butt teen Vamp Heroine, Gina. Her sass and spunk. Her under-cover job in the FBI and the way she has to infiltrate the other Vamp groups. Plus, the (Golf-pencil skirt) joke still has me laughing out loud.
The comments and snark are hilarious.
I declare this YA paranormal is for anyone that likes to read fresh dialogue and a twist on vampire culture.
Loved it.
I won this book on Twitter and enjoyed it immensely. Definitely buy this book~
My niece can't wait to get her fangs into this one.
The comments and snark are hilarious.
I declare this YA paranormal is for anyone that likes to read fresh dialogue and a twist on vampire culture.
Loved it.
I won this book on Twitter and enjoyed it immensely. Definitely buy this book~
My niece can't wait to get her fangs into this one.
January 31, 2012
Gina has got to be one of my fave protagonists. She's got wit, personality, and let's not forget good taste. She always knows how to fight a good fight and is up for any challenge. Let's face it, out of all the vamps out there, nobody can compare to Gina Covello.
If you crave action-packed adventure mixed with a hint of humor and fun, this is the book for you.
A Fangtastic sequel!
If you crave action-packed adventure mixed with a hint of humor and fun, this is the book for you.
A Fangtastic sequel!
January 20, 2013
this was a great fast paced series. i felt like it was full of action which kept me interested. if this was a movie i could see both boys and girls interested. but as a book i think boys would not give it a chance because of Gina's girly awesomeness. but i absolutely love that part. she was girly and into clothes and fashion but she kicked major butt. :)
February 18, 2014
These books are so much fun. The witty lines and humour stalk down the catwalk with awesome flair. The books reflect the opinions of teenage women. I would put the novel somewhere between tweens and YA.
There's blunder, there's genius and there's 50 million laughs.
Give it a go, it puts many a smile on your face.
There's blunder, there's genius and there's 50 million laughs.
Give it a go, it puts many a smile on your face.
July 5, 2012
This wasn't the best book ever, but I did like it a lot. The main character Gina is a fierce and funny heroine. The whole book provides a lot of FUNtastic action, with Gina providing her sassy & swanky perspective to it all. Kinda like the D.E.B.S of vampire YA novels.
February 25, 2012
3.75 stars Gina is maturing with each book. Still funny/snarky/sassy.
August 31, 2012
A fangtastically fabulous book about vampires vs the FEDS!!
February 6, 2012
I read a lot of YA books but I foud this one annoying and had to force myself to finish it.
June 8, 2012
Not the best. But i liked it
January 23, 2014
Third book in the Vamped series. Gina is at it again, only this time she's a little suspicious of the Feds.Just read and see how she deals with it.....
November 9, 2014
Each book gets better and better!
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