THE RADLEYS, BY MATT HAIG, TEXT PUBLISHING, $32.95.
This is a new and intriguing addition to the ever-expanding vampire oeuvre, which is still selling its blood-soaked socks off. The hook this time is that the Radleys – a seemingly average family living in an English village – are abstaining vampires: the parents, Peter and Helen, because they want to obey the law and feel like normal people, the two children because they are unaware of their vampire heritage.
Yet they have cravings – nightmares – which eventually erupt in an act of violence, blowing the secret and putting the whole family at risk. The fun really starts when they turn for help to Peter’s brother, a trashy-but-sexy vampire, who refuses to reform. Think True Blood meets The Brady Bunch. Haig’s background as a young adult writer means the kids are drawn especially well, torn between their craving for blood and trying not to kill their friends.
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