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Teacher VIC Is a Vampire--Retired
Ghoulish Teacher Vic is is afraid of garlic bread but loves the school blood drive, wears a black cape, and keeps his class laughing, in a story that provides readers with Freaky Facts about Vampires. Original.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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April 2, 2023
Random read time. Yeah, been fitting in a bunch of these lately, I have the room for it so I may as well use it. This time I put in something random that seemed fun. This is a 1995 book by Jared Piasecki, one of those guys who had some middle grade titles at the time but isn't like super notable. He's still got an active faccebook at least Nothing too crazy otherwise.
This is a Batman Skyrlak book and I only note because some Graveyard Schools mention this is an example one of the publishers books so I've been curious about it. And fittingly they have a Graveyard School mention in the 'other Batnam books" page.
This book deals with a new 6th grade Teacher named Vic who off the bat is weird with wanting the room to be dark, wearing a camp and noting a dislike of garlic. He's not subtle about how he's totally a vampire. Some kids, most notable local rich bitch Laura are suspicious and want to expose him.
One thing with this book is that it really uses the third person omniscient style. Even though Laura gets enough focus, it feels like there isn't as strong of a human focus as in most of these. It's kind of confused in that way and while it is a bit refreshing, it makes it a tad aimless at times. Really, Vic is the lead here we as get a lot of his POV, as while as some other people like these private eyes hired to expose him.
Vic is a vampire yes, but he's now more into wanting to teach kids and wants to retire from being a vampire. His family is not happy about this and we find out how this clashes with the bigger vampire culture. A fun take on this kind of cliche here.
This book is largely a comedy and it works, it's honestly pretty funny. I did laugh a few times, sometimes at the absurdity of certain lines. It feels more like a cartoon episode than a book at times, especially the stuff with the detectives. It can be a bit tryhard at times but mostly the humor works.
Story is a bit aimless but the nature of it makes it mostly okay. Spoilers, there's a sequel and this basically ends on a cliffhanger which is treated like just the ending at first but then boom, ad for the next book. The ending feels abrupt before finding this out, it's building up something with Vic's vampire family and the final note is weird given what happens with Laura in it.
Knowing it's Part 1 does make that better at least, does feel like we could have wrapped this up here though. I have no access to that sequel shockingly, so guess we'll never know what happens. Anyway, Laura is interesting for she isn't sympathetic, doesn't let down on Vic while the others indeed do.
I love her dad, who shows some contempt for her in small bits while having to keep up spoiling her and all that. She's a young Reva Dalby in the making.
So yeah, it's not the tightest plot but it is pretty fun. It's refresh and different from other stuff I sample. For its flaws, it was pretty enjoyable as a quick read. I hope the sequel pops up someday, I am interested to see how it goes.
That's it for this. Next Sunday will be finishing off the Ate my Blank saga, thank god. Not sure before that, we'll see. I wanna get in what I can doing gaps and I have plenty this month due to the nature of my blog this month.
We'll see what happens. See ya then.
This is a Batman Skyrlak book and I only note because some Graveyard Schools mention this is an example one of the publishers books so I've been curious about it. And fittingly they have a Graveyard School mention in the 'other Batnam books" page.
This book deals with a new 6th grade Teacher named Vic who off the bat is weird with wanting the room to be dark, wearing a camp and noting a dislike of garlic. He's not subtle about how he's totally a vampire. Some kids, most notable local rich bitch Laura are suspicious and want to expose him.
One thing with this book is that it really uses the third person omniscient style. Even though Laura gets enough focus, it feels like there isn't as strong of a human focus as in most of these. It's kind of confused in that way and while it is a bit refreshing, it makes it a tad aimless at times. Really, Vic is the lead here we as get a lot of his POV, as while as some other people like these private eyes hired to expose him.
Vic is a vampire yes, but he's now more into wanting to teach kids and wants to retire from being a vampire. His family is not happy about this and we find out how this clashes with the bigger vampire culture. A fun take on this kind of cliche here.
This book is largely a comedy and it works, it's honestly pretty funny. I did laugh a few times, sometimes at the absurdity of certain lines. It feels more like a cartoon episode than a book at times, especially the stuff with the detectives. It can be a bit tryhard at times but mostly the humor works.
Story is a bit aimless but the nature of it makes it mostly okay. Spoilers, there's a sequel and this basically ends on a cliffhanger which is treated like just the ending at first but then boom, ad for the next book. The ending feels abrupt before finding this out, it's building up something with Vic's vampire family and the final note is weird given what happens with Laura in it.
Knowing it's Part 1 does make that better at least, does feel like we could have wrapped this up here though. I have no access to that sequel shockingly, so guess we'll never know what happens. Anyway, Laura is interesting for she isn't sympathetic, doesn't let down on Vic while the others indeed do.
I love her dad, who shows some contempt for her in small bits while having to keep up spoiling her and all that. She's a young Reva Dalby in the making.
So yeah, it's not the tightest plot but it is pretty fun. It's refresh and different from other stuff I sample. For its flaws, it was pretty enjoyable as a quick read. I hope the sequel pops up someday, I am interested to see how it goes.
That's it for this. Next Sunday will be finishing off the Ate my Blank saga, thank god. Not sure before that, we'll see. I wanna get in what I can doing gaps and I have plenty this month due to the nature of my blog this month.
We'll see what happens. See ya then.
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