This is a dangerous process for humans - accepting an offer of 'transition' from a vampire means a small but real risk of death or worse. Mel is afraid that her intense relationship with her best friend is endangered by this, but what she really fears is that Cathy might be contemplating vampirism herself. From the start, Cathy falls hard for Francis, an ancient, charming vampire in the body of a teenager, who is attending high school for mysterious reasons of his own (though Mel has her suspicions). They live in the small town of New Whitby, the birthplace of America's compact with vampires and the origin of the social contract that sees humans and vampires living side by side in a civilized (if not entirely comfortable) fashion. Mel's best friend is Cathy, and where Mel is flamboyant and outgoing, Cathy is serious and studious and shy. Larbalestier and Brennan have a wickedly sarcastic turn of phrase (as fans of Larbalestier's earlier books can attest), and their protagonist, Mel - a high-school senior whose best friend is besotted with the vampire - is one of those iconic, absolutely likable but flawed YA protagonists that you find in the genre's best books.

Team Human is an incredibly fresh and original - and absolutely charming - take on vampire fiction.

Team Human is a new young adult novel from Justine Larbalastier and Sarah Rees Brennan, about an ancient vampire who enrolls at a small town high school, where a beautiful young girl falls in love with him.

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