{"id":15075,"date":"2026-04-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=15075"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:32:21","slug":"b-is-a-bite-of-pepper-young-vampire-finding-herself-by-balazs-lorinczi-ya-graphic-novel-a2z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=15075","title":{"rendered":"B is A BITE OF PEPPER, young vampire finding herself, by Balazs Lorinczi (YA Graphic Novel) #A2Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skateboarding,
loving on her pup,
does she have to lock in her future already?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a born-vampire, teen Pepper isn’t immortal – yet. Once she takes a bride (any gender) and they turn together, their age and appearance will be set\u2026 forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite her mom’s pressure to choose, she’s not ready yet, not grown into her true self. Just-younger half-brother Jeb may defy tradition and turn immortal first – the upcoming human-vampire Gala is when many announce their brides and turn each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting college art student Ana is refreshing – she really appreciates Pepper’s skateboarding talent and adores immortal puppy Shroom. Pepper’s mom hires her to work in the family bookshop, so the pair happily get to spend more time together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana’s art class illustration project of Pepper’s amazing skateboard tricks is turned into an edgy skateboard brand by Jeb, who looks to the rich vampires’ Human Relations Council for start-up funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the Council help if neither Jeb nor Pepper are full vampires yet?
Does Ana really like Pepper for herself or just as a skateboard model?
Do they all have to become real adults right now!? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a human and vampire world where B+ juice keeps vampires healthy without human blood, Pepper has to decide how much of her self she’ll let others control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorinczi portrays his characters in pink, black, and lavender rather than the usual black and red. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other “non-traditional” vampire books you’d recommend?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info: A Bite of Pepper \/ Balazs Lorinczi. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2025. [author\/illustrator site https:\/\/balazslorinczi.carrd.co\/<\/a>] [publisher site https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/A-Bite-of-Pepper\/Balazs-Lorinczi\/9781665970464<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skateboarding, loving on her pup, does she have to lock in her future already? As a born-vampire, teen Pepper isn’t immortal – yet. Once she takes a bride (any gender) and they turn together, their age and appearance will be set\u2026 forever. Despite her mom’s pressure to choose, she’s not ready yet, not grown into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77,19,80,30,41],"tags":[10,90,124,22,55,75,11,5,16,141,18,43,39,49,184,111,31,15,21,57,14,35,3,102],"class_list":["post-15075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-art","tag-behavior","tag-books","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-dogs","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-sports","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-vampires"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15075"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15116,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions\/15116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}