Thoughts on Twelfth Grade Kills

Okay, I don't even think it's necessary to post a spoiler warning, because c'mon, you KNOW there will be spoilers!  But...

*MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD*

First and most obviously, the "Is Vlad going to choose Snow or Meredith?" argument.

Well, it was Snow.  Oh, big surprise.  I WAS a Team Meredith, but in book five, Meredith sort of got...whatever a girl version of a jerk would be.  She was always mysterious, but there was no mystery at all---she was just shallow.  I don't see what Joss saw in her, but hey, they like eachother?  Yays for them. 

When Snow entered the story, she seemed to be too perfect, and just a tool for the makings of the 'love triangle' that all cool books are flaunting this season.  But in book five---she became a real person.  Especially since she and Vlad's frosting fight---seriously, one of my favorite literary scenes ever.  ("If Nelly finds out, you are dead.")

So while Meredith proved herself shallow, Snow proved herself to really have something to her. 


Second, the deaths.  I understand that D'Ablo needed to leave the story quickly, and that was an excellent opener for several reasons: 

• First, that he just needed to leave the story.
• Second, that a opener that was shocking was needed.
• Thirdly and most importantly, it provided a opening for the book that wasn't Vlad confronting his dad---that would have been very awkward, for the reasons that new readers might not get what was happening, and it would be pretty anticlimactic to open the book with an explanation of what was happening.

With the other deaths.... Nelly.  I never would have imagined that she would be one to die---she seemed so firmly a part of the series that it was wowing.  Very sad for Otis, though.

Like Dumbledore, Nelly will live on in our hearts.

Also, Snow's "death."  It didn't convince me.  Realistically, knowing Vlad, he should have been ON THE FLOOR next to her body bawling, and not being able to get up, maybe even going into shock.  He was far to composed.  But I am glad she isn't dead.

Tomas.  This isn't exactly his death, but his whole part in the book was awkward and it didn't totally agree with the earlier books.  And who got burned up with Mellina?  Maybe I just didn't read well enough?

Also, is Vlad going to age and eventually die when Snow doesn't?  That would seriously break Snow's heart.  Or is it that his Pravus powers make it that he doesn't age?  I wish I knew...

One more thing:

HenryxOctober=cutest thing ever!  Awwww! 

16

1. As of yesterday I am sixteen.

2. It really stinks when only two of your friends remember your birthday.

3. It really, really stinks when you know as almost-fact that one of those friends only knew because of facebook birthday updates. 

4.  I'm hopelessly obsessed with The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. 

5. Like, crazy-sick-obsessed. 

6. Like, more-than-the-Hunger-Games obsessed. 

7.  I'm so excited for the final concluding book in september that I can hardly stand it.

8. The book is titled Twelfth Grade Kills.

9. That title really suggests something scary in store for Vlad. 

10. I don't want Vlad to die!!!

11.  I dunno if I'm Team Meredith or Team Snow.

12.  I keep on thinking Team Meredith.

13.  Speaking of Meredith, I bought shimmery mascara.

14. I'm scared to wear it.  Maybe to homecoming though.

15.  I kinda doubting I'll get invited to homecoming, which scares me.

16.  So now I'm scared that I'm getting older, that Vlad will die, and that I'll be pummelled to a pulp in highschool next year.

Gotta love being sixteen.  Such a lovely, pessemistic year. 

vampires non-sparkly style

I've been reading, okay, have read many times, the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites.  I believe my fourteen-year-old brother views it as far too gross and far too girly, all at the same time.  Aparently, I am dead to gross descriptions of the blood-drinking of teenage vampires.  But whatever.  For all we know, I am one. 

So there.

Additionally, isn't the cover awesome?  How the title's on the back?  And the black/white art of Vlad?

My only real complaint is that the plotline/writing style aren't the best.  But that doesn't mean I don't love it...