As I am not the dad of a teenage daughter who is obsessed with twilight and "those sparkly vampires", I'm not the target audience of this 2007 cop thriller. But, as a Vampire Apologist™, I'm always looking for books that explore different interpretations of the beloved curse. This book had some interesting and really gruesome takes, and for that I give it an extra .5 stars. Everything else about this book really... shows its age. The characters were cardboard, the plot dragged on for far too long, and the writing wasn't strong enough to make up for the rest of it.