{"id":3062,"date":"2014-02-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:59:02","slug":"team-human-by-justine-larbalestier-and-sarah-rees-brennan-book-review-love-your-local-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"Team Human, by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan (book review) – love your local vampire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Team<\/a>Hazmat suit<\/a>? Check.
\nFountain pen and journal? Check.
\nVampire<\/a> enrolling in high school, 200 years late? Check.
\nCraunston High may not be ready for Francis, but Cathy sure is – and Mel wants to stop that relationship ASAP!<\/p>\n

Read an excerpt here<\/a> for that first schoolday as Cathy swoons over coolly distant Francis, whom Mel judges as “a crazy astronaut suit full of trouble” – and that’s before she meets the human teenage boy who lives in the same vampire house!<\/p>\n

You should easily be able to find Team Human<\/em>\u00a0 in your favorite local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> after its 2013 paperback release (also available as eBook).<\/p>\n

Would you give up sunshine, chocolate, and your best friend for love?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Team Human \/ Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan. Harper Teen, 2012 (paperback 2013).\u00a0 [Justine’s site<\/a>] \u00a0 [Sarah’s site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy from personal collection; cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: When her best friend falls in love with a vampire and wants to change over, Mel just cannot let it happen!<\/p>\n

It’s all so civilized in this New England town founded by vampires, with sunproof windows in every building and the Zombie Disposal Unit on call (unfortunate side effect for 20% of vampire changes) and volunteer blood banks.<\/p>\n

Recently, the principal’s husband ran away with a vampire, leaving her and Mel’s classmate Anna alone. Then debonair Francis enrolls in their high school, and ultimate undead fan Cathy falls for him.\u00a0 Why is this well-educated 200 year old vampire suddenly risking daytime travel to school? Mel is sure he’s up to no good.<\/p>\n

No, Cathy’s not a modern soul, but what if Francis stops loving her after she risks the change?
\nYes, Kit is hot, but the human teen living with Francis’s vampire family is planning to change, too!<\/p>\n

Maybe Mel is a bit sensitive about vampires, but she won’t stop investigating Francis’s real reasons for coming to school if it will keep her best (her only) friend on Team Human! \u00a0 (One of 7,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hazmat suit? Check. Fountain pen and journal? Check. Vampire enrolling in high school, 200 years late? Check. Craunston High may not be ready for Francis, but Cathy sure is – and Mel wants to stop that relationship ASAP! Read an excerpt here for that first schoolday as Cathy swoons over coolly distant Francis, whom Mel […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,30],"tags":[90,22,7,11,20,5,37,18,40,44,46,43,39,31,15,9,21,35,190,3],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-tbr2013","tag-teens"],"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\/3062","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=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}