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Lucky Break (My Sister the Vampire, #7)

Sienna Mercer

Start date: November 1, 2017

Finish date: November 30, 2017

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Oct 21, 2012 Daisy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2014, read-in-2017, read-before-2014, 3rd-person-pov, 5-star, laugh-out-loud, female-main-character, shakespeare-stuff, author-north-american

31/12/17 re-read: It's amazing how the further away I get from the age of this series' intended audience and main characters, the more I seem to love these books. During the many years I've been re-reading My Sister the Vampire, my love and appreciation for nature, animals, the outdoors, theatre and Shakespeare - all key themes of this story - have blossomed a lot, meaning this particular book gelled with my tastes on so many levels. Then there's the core themes running through the entire series 31/12/17 re-read: It's amazing how the further away I get from the age of this series' intended audience and main characters, the more I seem to love these books. During the many years I've been re-reading My Sister the Vampire, my love and appreciation for nature, animals, the outdoors, theatre and Shakespeare - all key themes of this story - have blossomed a lot, meaning this particular book gelled with my tastes on so many levels. Then there's the core themes running through the entire series of family, love, friendship, growing up, loss, trying new things, accepting yourself and others different to you, loyalty, joy... I could go on. There's so much positivity in these books. And I am never going to grow out of that.

Original review 29/09/14: What a book. I love how well thought out and creative the storylines are in this, the seventh in Sienna Mercer's Vampalicious MSTV series. I'm a fan of Shakespeare, a fan of the countryside, and a HUGE fan of My Sister the Vampire, so I may be kind of biased in this book's favour during this review ... okay, so maybe a lot biased. But that doesn't even matter - the bottom line is, this book totally sucks. (BTW, that means it's amazing - 'sucks' is a good thing in this series. Get it, because vampires suck blood...? Anyway...)

This isn't one of my favourite books in this series, but I think it may be one of the best ... if that makes sense. I think the storylines were really well thought out because it felt like the twins actually had real problems that weren't going to be fixed overnight. Don't get me wrong here, I know better than anyone (you wouldn't believe me if I told you how many times I've read them all) that there has been real problems in the previous books, but I can't help feeling that Olivia and Ivy showed new sides of themselves with these particular dilemmas that they were facing.

The character's relationships with eachother were portrayed beautifully in this book. We, the readers, saw new sides to the relationships between; Ivy and Brendan, Olivia and Camilla, Susannah and Charles, Olivia and Jackson and Brendan and Charles - to name a few! I enjoyed these new insights more than I can say!

If I had one tiny complaint about this story, it would be the attitude that was displayed towards Olivia having her first ever kiss. I'm not talking about the characters - they had a very healthy attitude towards the fact that she had never been kissed before. For instance, Olivia was said to have have been completely fine with it and that she believed totally in waiting for the right time. But sometimes it felt like the 3rd person narration was hinting that she ought to have been kissed before. Maybe it was the way that she kept saying that she was fine with it, as if there was reason not to be fine with it. Which there isn't. Let's hope it was unintentional.

This is an utterly fabulous book which I'm sure any 7 - 13 year old girl would easily fall in love with. (Although I do know some much older people who still enjoy this series). I have read it and re-read it so many times, and it has never failed to put a smile on my face. :) ...more

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