Biting for Blood (Choose Your Own Nightmare, No 7)

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Summary: Caution: Vampires!
Review: An amazing book, the sort that attracts your eye in a libary or bookstore. And its as good on the inside as it is on the outside! Whether your a vampire fan, choose-your-own-adveture-stlye-book fan, or even just looking for something to read, read this and you will be mesmerised! I was! the night I read this I was clutching a cross I made from sticks (I'm allergic to garlic!).

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Summary: YOU may encounter a vampire or even wake up in a coffin!
Review: Learning that "you" are a nerdy-looking kid with glasses isn't exactly an auspicious way to begin a story. For some of us, that's quite enough of a nightmare. But in BITING FOR BLOOD, that's just the beginning. As the protagonist of several possible adventures, you may encounter blood-drinking neighbors, drugged cookies, a vanishing journalist ... you might even wake up in a coffin! And then again, you might not. It all depends on your own choices in this book that starts with a strange-looking new neighbor, missing persons, and a deer found drained of blood.

BITING FOR BLOOD is nicely, if not too generously, illustrated with bats, pointy-toothed vampires, and, yes, "you": You at the soda shop with friends; you fleeing an attacking bat; you asleep in bed with a vampire whetting her fangs over you. The possible endings range from chilling to silly, with most falling somewhere between. Before you arrive at one, you may be chased by a real vampire, cornered by a growling dog, or scared silly by ... something ... pounding at the window. Quick, get the garlic!

Most of the endings have an inconclusive flavor, maybe to encourage readers to see if another set of choices will yield something more satisfying. The stories themselves are too short to build a very high level of suspense, but for the book's intended audience -- younger readers -- there's enough action and mystery to keep the pages turning until all possibilities have been explored.