At this point in the plot Mina has so many stars in her eyes that she once again misses the completely, painfully obvious fact that Aubrey’s interest in her comes from motivations that are anything but romantic. Matters only worsen when Mina starts her vampire classes and meets the even better looking Aubrey. At the beginning of the novel Mina is so busy lusting after her cute classmate Nathan as to be entirely oblivious to the true object of his affection. She is also possibly one of the most shallow characters I have ever encountered. Mina is also, in many ways, a very real character–aside from the whole vampiric parents side of things, of course. Even the chatty, notebook style blurb for the book helps to draw readers in to this funny story.

Mina also has to attend a series of vampire classes to help in her decision-making process. What she didn’t know until recently was that she would have to decide if she wanted to join her parents among the undead or not. She has, in fact, known that for all of her life. Mina already knew her parents were vampires. Pauley–previously known for her own book review site–has created a very interesting premise here: Mina Hamilton is having a hard enough time with high school and being seventeen in general when things get even more complicated. For that reason, this is sort of an anti-Chick Lit Wednesday review After finishing Kimberly Pauley‘s debut novel Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe) (2009) I found myself of two minds as to whether or not I liked it.

Still Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley