"Marty happens upon Isuzu Trooper Cassidy, a small girl who has just lost her mother to the mean breed of vamp. He takes her into his life and raises her as a human, a dangerous undertaking when all around him his bloodthirsty neighbors are aching to taste the sweet bouquet of non-manufactured blood (there are artificial blood-bottling plants by this time). So, he must keep her origin a secret."

"The writing is snappy and clean. The dialog zips along and the plot never drags. Vamped flips back and forth between backstory and real time without ever losing the reader. The shifts from vampire world to human world are clever and recall many old-time products, such as Count Chocula cereal, in a way that almost guarantees a smile."