This will be a summer that Rocky never forgets. He is about to turn 16, get his driver's license, fall in love for the very first time, and find out that monsters are real.
This coming of age Vampire horror is set in the 80s in a touristy beach town in coastal Maine. Rocky is expecting a long boring summer since his cousin/best pal is going away, but meeting November changes everything. At first Rocky is so enamored of her that he barely notices that her arrival coincides with all the missing person posters going up. First love and raging hormones have a way of making a teen turn a blind eye to all else, and the only thing more dangerous than being unaware of evil, is when evil becomes aware of you.
This is the author's best work so far and if you are looking for a summer read with a lot of bite I highly recommend this.
5 out of 5 stars
I received an advance copy for review. ( )

Wow! This was almost like a sentimental journey back to the 80's but with more of a twist!

A little backstory:

Rocky Zukas is a 15 year old boy living in a tourist town off the coast of Maine. Summer is here and he was looking forward to it till he finds out that his cousin Axel that he hangs out with all the time will not be around for the summer as he will be going away with his parents. The summer is starting to look like it might be boring until Rocky meets a beautiful girl named November.

The summer is much brighter now and the two of them start hanging out together. Summer love blooms, but what Rocky doesn't know is that November's family is anything but normal as November's brother Gabriel has an insatiable appetite for blood and when the tourist town starts losing people as they go missing it turns the town upside down.

I don't want to give away too much with the story as you will just have to read the book, but this story just flows along and with it all being set in the 1980's was really cool as the different things that the author, Glenn Rolfe weaved into this story from that era just whisks you back to that time.

I am always impressed with the books by this author as his writing style just grabs you from the beginning and keeps you grounded in the book till the last page. There wasn't an excessive amount of gore, but there was quite a bit of blood flowing throughout the storyline. Giving this book five stars for creativity and nostalgia! ( )

Glenn Rolfe wins again! A thrilling tale of forbidden summer love. Rolfe takes you on a journey of a boy as he approaches his 16th birthday. A time of learning to drive, getting a car, and of love. But there is much more to the girl he loves than is at first aware....... ( )