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After reading Crusade, co-authors Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié’s first title in a new young adult vampire series, we had questions. They created an impressive world. And if you read our review you’ll remember we were floored at how eerily real the vampires “coming out” event occurred. Luckily the ladies were willing to fill us in on the new series, the shocking parts of the book, upcoming witchery and... 
We’ll be honest, when we first picked up Evernight at the bookstore we were expecting it to be so-so. Another vampire book set at a school. We’d just read Vampire Academy books, so the bar was set high. But Claudia Gray’s series following Bianca (not a vampire, but very close with them) and Lucas (part of a long line of vampire hunters) was different, engaging and got under our skin. You often hear... 
Ed. note: Jason Henderson probably knows more about vampires than we do. We’re a bit in awe. We’re happy to see him bringing slayers back into current YA lit with his Alex Van Helsing series. As such, we’re handing this post over to his expert hands. Enjoy. (We did.) When I was a kid I loved vampires, but I loved Van Helsing more. Not just the doddering German professor of Stoker’s Dracula, but the... 
