I just finished reading Rising, a sequel to Department 19. This series deals with vampires in a manner Twilight couldn't come close to..all due to the excellent writing by author Will Hill.
I finished Department 19 almost 2 years ago, (April, 2011) purchasing the book as soon as it was published. I had a bit of difficulty starting this one, as I had to remember a few characters and what had happened to them. Hill doesn't do the traditional recap that many series' authors do, and I am actually glad about that. I just hope the third isn't published a full year and half after this one.
Jamie Carpenter is the main character, and he is thrust into the role of a covert, vampire hunter suddenly in the first book. It was an exciting read, with great characterization, and there was a great deal of fun as Hill lays out that Bram Stoker was detailing actual history in his novel, Dracula.
Dracula is the focus of this second book, The Rising...it is Dracula's rising that the group, Department 19 that Jamie works for, is trying to prevent. Jamie has many friends in the Department, but both books feature traitors, and Jamie's distrust and fear of losing people, are compelling character traits that the author develops very nicely.
The second book, is a tad gorier than the first, so some middle school students might not be ready for it, if they tend to have nightmares.
I highly recommend this series.
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