Team Human

Today's post is a review of Team Human by Sarah Rees Brennan (of the Demon's Lexicon series, which is also excellent) and Justine Larbalestier, a book that takes the Twilight vampire tropes and riffs on them in a humorous manner. I would call it a parody, except that it isn't, really--while it is poking a bit of gentle fun at Twilight, there is a real story there and the characters and plot have more depth than a simple parody. (And probably more depth than Twilight itself, although I'm judging mostly by the movie since I haven't gotten around to reading the books yet. Someone gave me a copy of the first book, so I figure I'll read it someday just to be fair, since I shouldn't judge a book without at least attempting to read it.)

( Cut for minor spoilers... )