Despite this being a horror novel about slaying a vampire it really, at the core, felt like a coming of age story. Also, despite their being a plentiful amount of media and literature about vampires, this novel is one of the few stories where the vampire felt like a true predator.

There were a few things that bothered me, of course. One being that the main character’s son is obsessed with nazis (it doesn’t add anything to the plot) and the climax of the book, the part that I waited nearly 400 pages for, finished in two chapters.