This review is based on putting the book down after a few chapters. I think I set my hopes up too high for this one. The description makes it sound like something I'd love (horror, vampires, and gay themes)... but the characters were just too dry to keep me interested. The author should do a lot more showing than telling: Nothing keeps moaning about wanting to get away from it all... but from what? What was so bad in his life to make him feel this way? He did not even care if his parents were upset with him, so what is he running from? If it was melancholy, he did not express enough depression to use it as a motive. 
 The story has the essence or personality of someone who is trying too hard to be goth; way too obsessed with the labels to nail the mood naturally. There were too many run on sentences and unnecessary descriptions of things that did not matter at all. That is the recipe for boredom. Maybe (just maybe) I'll try again someday when I am desperate to read something... but for now, my "to read" pile is too tempting. 
 Oh, and EVERYONE wants the main characters in bed. Just at a glance - because people are that easy. Was it vampire magnetism?? Uggh... Maybe this is not my genre after all.