Plague House

by Tom Upton

Compelling YA fiction; vampire, paranormal romance novel. Charlie Wainwright is a sickly child, whose life has been rigidly controlled due to his illness, a rare auto-immune disease. His protective parents don't allow him to do anything normal children get to do. He can’t partake in sports. He can’t have friends or visitors at home. He must avoid anything that can cause him to have a flare-up of his condition.The only place his parents let him go is school, where Charlie is one of the Sicko Squad, a group of chronically sick kids often bullied by other students. After Charlie starts high school, his illness worsens, and he discovers the true nature of his illness-- not the auto-immune condition his parents led him to believe he had, but something much more startling. Charlie is becoming a vampire.

Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires

302 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2014

About the author

Born in Chicago.Studied advanced writing at Columbia College.

Hopeless Romantic most of the time.

Reviews

[ragulca2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[alice reuss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plague house

This was a very good story although in the beginning I was wondering if this was a vampire story. it was but sure was different than I expected. This is good for someone who likes vampire stories with a twist. slow to start but worth reading . I really liked the ending .

[A. Powers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Could use another round of editing to clean up the typos and whatnot, but overall the story was fun to read. Despite the fact that I typically hate vampires, this story was tolerable in terms of the vampires. They aren't the stereotypical vampires, and our lead guy doesn't consider sucking blood to be sexy or anything. In fact, he hates that he is a vampire! How often do you come across that?!? Pretty unique take on the vampire world.

[Chrystal Roe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cool

This is A really cool book. Charlie is having A rough life. Sick all of the time and bullied for it neither his home life not school allows him any normalcy. That's all he really wants, to be normal. But that just isn't in the cards for poor Charlie. You see Charlie is about to find out that he's a vampire. This is A really cool sorry and I sure hope that there is a sequel coming out soon.

[Kanmani · Rating 4 out of 5]

On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife's orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, a ...more

[shirley downes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must Read ! Even better than Twilight Series!

Finally a rival to the Twilight and True Blood Series . The characters become a left of you. Well written as to compete with Rowling’s craftsmanship.

[hh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gg

The smoky glass slid back up in place, and I turned to gaze out the window. Maybe I would never see the house again. I wanted one last look before we left. After a few seconds, the lone light upstairs went out and the window was dark. For a second,

[Chandru'sGR · Rating 3 out of 5]

nice one to read ..love it

[Stanley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice new take

What a nice new take on a age old story. I did enjoy this new take on vampires and fantasy

[hh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hh

windowpane as the bare branches of the nearby trees swayed in the cold wind. Soon the limo eased away from the curb, and we silently vanished into the darkness.

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Plague House is not a typical coming-of-age tale. It's not a boy's journey to becoming a man; it's a boy's journey to becoming a vampire.

Charlie is a fifteen-year-old boy who has been sick most of his life--or so he's been told. He starts out the book as a sickly, weak, smothered-by-his-mother boy and ends it as a powerful vampire. The book is about his journey from one to the other.

He goes through all the same things as any adolescent--bad school cafeteria food, a mean gym teacher, annoying parents, finding out his friend Angela wants to be his girlfriend, and experiencing the changes his body is going through, except all this is complicated by the added pressure of learning he is a vampire.

I enjoyed the book. Charlie is a good kid. He's funny and cares about people. Going through the vampire transition with his is interesting as he finds out and explores all the new things he can do. Angela is a relatable character as the girl who knows she loves the boy before the boy even has a clue what is going on. Charlie's "doctor" was the most interesting character to me as we discover who he really is and interacts with Charlie.

I didn't find the book to be slow as others have said, but there are a lot of typos and other proofing errors that detracted from the enjoyment of the book. Still, I recommend it because the story is good, the characters are sympathetic and likeable, and Mr. Fogg is very intriguing.

[вяαт · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars, but I can't bring myself to round it up to 2 stars.

Unfortunately I have to admit that I was super disappointed by the book. I was still bored by the time I had finished 80% of the book. I think the book could have had potential, but it was executed very poorly. I found the main character, Charlie, to be very bland. Personally, I think Angie is the only person in the book who had somewhat good character development. All in all, the story didn't even seem to go anywhere. I'm usually pretty determined to finish a book once I start it, but there were a few times when I thought about putting it down but I decided to push myself through it. Besides the story line, the grammatical errors and spelling errors were ridiculous. I'm usually not picky about those types of things, because I'm not an English major and I don't catch things like that. So if I was bothered by some spelling errors, that's obviously a sign that there were quite a bit.

[Rosann · Rating 3 out of 5]

WOW...... this book moves sooo s-l-o-w, everytime I just wanted to set the book down and move onto another there was something that kept me reading.

Then FINALLY at around 80 percent,, dang the book started getting good! Finally the author was letting the characters develop and grow and do more. I was actually enjoying the last 20 percent of this book.

Then " bam" .. suddenly Im reading about fairies, trolls, super vampires, and I just felt myself deflate.

If I wanted True Blood, I would have picked up that author's books and read that series.

So disappointed :-(

[Elaine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was unique and different. I really enjoyed the characters and the story kept me guessing. Although I felt like that there were a few weak points in the middle plotwise I really enjoyed this and would like to read a continuation.

[Rohit Gurunath Sharma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your life and work is simply knowing how to push yourself?

[Harleighhurricane · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best young adult vampire book I've read lately. It's well-written, original, fresh, different. If you like this genre, I strongly recommend you check out a sample of this book.

[Denise Braswell · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was alright.

So slow but you care about the characters. I wish you well on your travels Charlie. I wish the story was more about Angie.

[Sali]

DNF 32 %. I'm bored.