Not Your Mother's Vampire Book

If you're looking for a brief summary & comparison of just a sample of young adult vampire novels (and a few scholarly ideas), you won't be dissappointed. Overstreet does not strive for a highly educated, heavy-on-the-reader text (well, she's a closeted vampire fan, what did you expect?). On the contrary - her text seems to resemble a vampire-fan diary written about vampire novels read and enjoyed. From a number of 60 young adult novels she took a sample of about 20, put them in her own vampire categories (she takes in focus the vampire characters & the direction that each of the narrations takes), then compared the novels within each category & came up with some general claims based on the sample novels & backed it all up with scholarly analysis read elsewhere (very little literary analysis comes from Overstreet herself). What she managed to put together is a book of reference for anyone who wants to dig into the vampire literature genre and its branches deeper & on his own. What I found especially helpful is the last chapter called "All the Titles that Bite: Vampire Novels and Scholarship", which gives annotated list of works Overstreet worked with when writing her book. Interesting is also an appendinx presenting the reader with a chart that compares various aspects for the ten classica vampire narratives.