This was an excruciating read. I kept putting my book down and occupying myself with something less boring instead. It was with some relief that I turned the last mind numbingly dull page.Pluses? I can't think of any. The plot is highly derivative, in a world that has seen rather too much of Buffy the Vampire slayer and Angel (both of which are far more entertaining than this book). It is overwritten, with page after endless page of winging about the weather or some such pass time. There is little real connection between the characters nor any good reason why they should act how they act. When we get a bit of action, it is near the end of the book - but a point in the story that should probably have been near the end of chapter 1 in an interesting work.Some people like this book enough to buy the sequel. In my experience, these people are 12 year old girls. I presume they like it because it is their first real experience of a vampire tale. I doubt anyone else will be interested