Vampires are meant to be so glamorous and powerful, but I'm here to tell you that being a vampire is nothing like that. Not one bit. On the contrary, it's like being stuck indoors with the flu watching daytime television, forever and ever.

If being a vampire was easy, there wouldn't need to be a Reformed Vampire Support Group.

As a matter of fact, I was going to a support meeting that very night. Father Ramon had come to pick me up. It was a Tuesday, because all our meetings were held on Tuesdays at 9.30pm, at St Agatha's church hall. And of you're wondering why I couldn't have driven myself to St Agatha's... well, that's just one of my many problems. I still look fifteen. I still am fifteen, when all's said and done, since I stopped ageing back in 1973.

So I'd attract far too much attention behind a steering wheel...

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I'd guess it really would matter what age you were when you were turned into a vampire...

After Twilight I wasn't too keen to take on another vampire book, for possibly the rest of my natural life, and then I saw The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks. Seriously, if you need a break from all the endless stream of vamp stuff going around like swine flu, give it a look.

The book centres around Nina, a girl who was bitten in 1973 when she was fifteen. Nina escapes her rather boring existance by writing mainstream vampire novels, but when a member of her Support Group is killed, she and the rest of the group either can wait for the slayer to come to them or go out and hunt him down first.

Yes! There's a possible love triangle with a fellow vampire and a werewolf! Sound familiar? But there's also overweight, nerdy vampire geeks who think they've got what it takes to become a slayer, roadtrippin' across Australia in a bright orange moving van, and rich American werewolf traffickers.

Srsly, worth a look.