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Don't Want to Be Your Monster
- Narrated by: Davin Babulal, Noah Beemer
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
A 2024 Sydney Taylor Honor Book!
Two vampire brothers must set aside their differences to solve a series of murders in this humorous and delightfully spooky novel for young listeners. For fans of Too Bright to See.
Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat . . . just drink a little blood. They're vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family.
Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in his life (well, immortal life) than just drinking blood, but fourteen-year-old Victor wants to accept his own self-image of vampirism. Everything changes when bodies start to appear all over town, and it becomes clear that a vampire hunter may be on the lookout for the family. Can Adam and Victor reconcile their differences and work together to stop the killer before it’s too late?
Critic reviews
A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Middle Grade Book of 2023
An Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids, 2023
"Members of persecuted minorities unite to fight crime: icky, impish, and thematically rich. Readers fond of nocturnal whodunits festooned with sly twists and tweaks from opening page to terrifying climax are in for a treat—but Moulton has much to offer here besides gore and glory. . . . [T]his story . . . thoughtfully pushes back against significant antisemitic elements in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and vampire lore in general."—STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews
"Readers will root for these two bantering brothers as they fight to defeat the evil lurking in their town and, after the last page is turned, will long to spend more time in their world."—STARRED REVIEW, Booklist
“A book about vampire siblings should not actually be this good. This, folks, is why one has to look past genre from time to time, because a great writer can take any topic and make it absolutely jaw-droppingly good.”—School Library Journal
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- Thea
- 21-08-23
A must read for anyone who loves vampires
I had been looking forward to reading this book ever since a friend told me about it ages ago. And I was not disappointed.
Deke has created a beautiful middle grade story about family, friendship, and identity, woven around a murder mystery with a difference. It mainly follows adopted brothers Adam and Victor, who are both vampires. Throughout the book, the boys struggle to find their place in a world in which they are seen as monsters. But over time they come to find true friends in the mortals that they meet, and grow a stronger bond together.
The characters in this book are beautifully diverse and nuanced. All of them are given enough time to express who they are, so you get to know them well. And in the process, Deke breaks down the antisemitic stereotypes that so much of our vampire folklore is based on. It is incredibly well written, and is a must read for anyone who has ever read a book or watched a show with vampires in (so, most of us)!
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