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    Audiobook5 hours

    Secret Vampire

    Written by L. J. Smith

    Narrated by Ellen Grafton

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    About this audiobook

    The series takes place in a world similar to our own but one where vampires, witches, werewolves and shape-shifters live among humans without their knowledge. These supernatural races make up a secret society known as the Night World, which enforces two fundamental laws to prevent discovery: 1) Never allow humans to gain knowledge of the Night World's existence and, 2) Never fall in love with one of them.

    In Secret Vampire, Poppy thought the summer would last forever. Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2009
    ISBN9781441804396
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    Secret Vampire
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    L. J. Smith

    L. J. Smith has written over two dozen books for young adults, including The Vampire Diaries, now a hit TV show. She has also written the bestselling Night World series and The Forbidden Game, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling Dark Visions. She loves to walk the trails and beaches in Point Reyes, California, daydreaming about her latest book.

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    • 4/5
      Easy read that's vampires for tweens. It seems a number of people have compared it to the twilight series but for the younger crowd. A young girl who learns that she's going to die soon of stage three cancer. She also learns that her best friend since elementary school is a vampire. He offers to change her but there's a problem. He's not supposed to tell about his world nor are they allowed to just change anyone. Now you see the similarities. Was rather more detailed in the death/change part then most vampire stories that mention that. Was good for what it was.
    • 3/5
      A short story about Poppy, a teenage girl who is dying and her best friend James, who is a vampire. James has to follow 2 simple 'Night World' rules: 1) Never let a human find out about the Night World, 2) Never fall in love with one of them. The story plot line is easy to guess, James breaks these rules to save Poppy from dying of a painful and incurable disease. This book is aimed at teenagers, but as it was written by the same author of The Vampire Diaries series (which I love), I had to give it a go. Although the plot lines are easy to guess, this is a nice little book that is easy to read and enjoyable. Would appeal to all teenage vamp fans.
    • 5/5
      Poppy is a normal 16 year old looking forward to the start of her summer vacation until she is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Now all Poppy has to look forward to is pain and shortly, death. James has been Poppy's best friend since they started school. He can't bear the thought of losing Poppy or her being in pain. But, James is in a unique position to help Poppy escape death. He is a vampire with the ability to turn her as well. The only problem is that once she is turned he and Poppy will be on the run, not just from her past life which she will need to relinquish, but also from the members of the Night World. The vampires would kill them both on sight if they found out that James had broken the rules, never tell what you are and never fall in love with a human.As in her Vampire Diaries series L.J. Smith has created an amazingly engrossing vampire story of forbidden love and a secret world. Once I started Night World I was completely sucked in and couldn't stop reading until I was done. For anybody who enjoys stories like Twilight and The Silver Kiss or YA vampire stories in general I would highly recommend any of L.J. Smith's vampire stories.
    • 5/5
      I loved this audiobook. I read this series a few years back in paperback and loved all the characters. I have to admit though that Secret Vampire really struck a cord with me. I love Poppy, James and Phil.

      I cannot recommend this book enough!
    • 3/5
      I love the book, but the narrator is awful. She sounds like a new reader.
    • 5/5
      Too short 4.5/5. It's definitely not literature and NOT the best writing. However, this was such a feel good read!
    • 4/5
      A teenaged girl is very suddenly made aware that she has a rare and threatening disease and has about 3 weeks to live. Fortunately for her, her best friend is secretly a vampire and offers to turn her. Poppy initially accepts, but then begins to think more critically about the idea, mostly due to the reaction of her skeptical brother who has never particularly liked that friend. The characters are also in danger from the Night World, an organized group of vampires, werewolves and witches who mostly keep their dealings secret and their membership in check. It's a huge no-no to tell humans about the Night World. This is a good introductory book into the Night World series, briefly explaining the Night World and introducing some characters who will become more important later. It's a quick read; in fact so quick the reader might marvel at the pace with which these characters make such life-altering decisions. But then...they're teenagers, so I guess that's not so surprising.
    • 3/5
      Fun and interesting story wouldn’t recommend the narrator though.
    • 3/5
      It's no wonder these were re-released with updated covers - they seem to be very modern, for being written so long ago. Some moments were very cheesy but as always, for me, the main vampire character charmed me into liking the book. I probably won't read the entire series, but I would read another one starring Ash or James. :)
    • 3/5
      Fun story, fluffy read. I tore though it in one sitting and enjoy how the series all connects. Some of the descriptions are great, there are clunky parts and the resolution isn't strong, but still ok.
    • 2/5
      Laughably, hilariously bad. But entertainingly so.
    • 3/5
      I loved L.J. Smith when I was a teenager. Even then, it was a slightly guilty love--she was the only author besides the much more serious Cynthia Voigt that I actually read out of the YA section of our local public library. Her book covers, emblazoned with embracing couples, bad haircuts, and black flowers, were pretty cheesy--and screamed "girl book!" Nevertheless, I adored the Dark Visions series as well as the Night World books, which were all about interspecies relationships between traditional horror villains (vampires, werewolves, and witches), albeit young and sexy traditional horror villains, and their human partners.I felt a familiar shame when I picked up all nine of the Night World books in three volumes for about twenty dollars at the local Wal-mart. My fiance snickered at me, but I reminded him, like a good scholar of YA, that the reading tastes of teenagers, even teenage girls, are perfectly valid and worth exploring. (I couldn't really defend the fact that we were in Wal-mart, of course.)And the first Night World novel, Secret Vampire is definitely a worthwhile read. I remember Smith's prose as being easy to swallow, and it is; her writing is largely clean, efficient, and unpretentious. However, I also remembered her prose getting a bit purple when the physical traits of the main characters are involved, and that's definitely the case. Even characters with dish-water blond hair (and there aren't many of them--red-heads, raven-haired divas, and luminescent gold-headed girls abound) are described as looking gorgeous and sparkling and somehow perfect. Smith, at least, is an equal opportunity cheese-writer. Both men and women are given ice-blue eyes, dagger smiles, smoldering hair, perfect figures.In this first novel of the Night World series, we're introduced to the universe through the eyes of Poppy North (no wonder I liked this series), an elvin-looking girl whose buoyant spirit is trounced by cancer. She discovers that her best friend from childhood is not just a vampire, but her soulmate. He breaks all the rules of the Night World to turn her into a vampire and save her life.It has to be said: scenes between James and Poppy are only nominally not-porn. Descriptions of blood sucking (complete with interruptions by parents and siblings) are redolent of traditional depictions of high school necking. I guess that's a lot of the appeal here--there's plenty of titillation without true sex. These scenes are exactly all purity balls and roses, though. Sex--sorry, drinking blood--is a dangerous, scary, exciting, but incredibly tempting activity in Smith's world. I think it's a strength of her books, rather than a weakness, that she deals with sexual subtext in the nuanced and complicated manner that it affects real teenagers.I'm less happy with Poppy as a heroine generally in this novel. She's not exactly a feminist stand-out--instead, she's helpless. Every action of her life is decided by the men (James, her brother) who surround her. When she finally does something that seems dictated by independent thought, in leaving James, it's only at his male cousin's prodding, and ultimately her vampy soulmate has to come save her. In Secret Vampire we're told, again and again, how strong Poppy is. It's a shame that Smith's writing doesn't support that characterization.

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    • 4/5
      The first of L.J. Smith's Night World series, in which a hidden society of vampires, witches and shape-shifters struggles to keep the knowledge of their existence from the humans around them, Secret Vampire is essentially a supernatural "Romeo and Juliet" tale. It follows the story of sixteen-year-old Poppy North, who discovers that she is dying of cancer, and her best friend James Rasmussen, who (unbeknownst to her) is a vampire and Night World member, with the ability to "save" her.Narrative tension abounds, as Poppy struggles with the decision to become a vampire, and James seeks to circumnavigate Night World law, which forbids its members from revealing their existence to humans, or from falling in love with them. Yes, you read that right! This series is all about the redemptive power of (forbidden!) love, and every title focuses on a different Human/Night-Worlder romance...This series made its debut in 1996, when I was running the children's section of a large bookstore, and I picked up the first title mostly out of curiosity. I had never really read any vampire fiction before, but it was rapidly becoming apparent to me that it was an immensely popular genre with younger readers. I am certainly glad I gave L.J. Smith a chance, because I discovered a series of well-written books, with engaging characters, suspenseful plots, and (ahem!) very romantic sensibilities. Yes, there's quite a bit of teen "cheese," but it's such good fun! I sometimes find it ironic that I was never able to appreciate teen fiction as a teenager, but that's another story altogether.