Having been rigorously trained (see “Gina’s Rules for Surviving Secret Spy School Training,” page ix), Gina, her main squeeze Bobby and former-jock-turned-minion Rick are sent on their first undercover mission. Among the perks keeping them cooperative are some top secret scientific discoveries to help them function, like drugs enabling them to resist sunlight, not to mention the free supply of bottled blood. As ReVamped opens, Gina and her young vampire friends are now involuntary recruits as supernatural secret agents for Uncle Sam. I’m very pleased to say that ReVamped (Flux/Llewellyn, 2010), the sequel to Vamped, is a great improvement over its predecessor.Īt the conclusion of Vamped, Gina and her surviving compatriots have gone “out of the frying pan into the fire.” They’ve escaped the plots of the scheming vampire queen Mellisande and the stern vampire council, only to run smack into a covert federal agency that somehow is on to (and on top of) the whole underground-supernatural-network thing. Nevertheless, I thought Diver had potential as a writer and I was interested to see how her next few books evolved. I also thought it woefully lacking in character development, even for first-person narrator Gina Covella.
I felt that it parroted too many hip teen clichés á là Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which it greatly resembled. I wasn’t overly impressed by Lucienne Diver’s first YA fantasy novel, Vamped (Flux/Llewellyn, 2009). (Article first published as Book Review: ReVamped by Lucienne Diver on Blogcritics.)
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