This book won't be for everyone, as it is a story constrained by its own rules and within its own world - not much is explained (which, I think, is a strength) and doubtless some of the content will rattle the easily offended, but I believed. I was in that world. And I wanted to be part of it. The characters were alive, and the themes of the book (isolation, ostracisation, friendship, love, family) were familiar but not tired or hackneyed. All of that, plus vampires. A wonderful read, and certainly one to be enjoyed again.