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So I've finally read all of M.T. Anderson's young adult novels. I still love his fresh, entertaining, and complex writing style. His first young adult novel, THIRSTY, is no different. Playing on themes of teenage angst turned vampirism, the oppression of different races, and the right of a creature to live even if it has to kill -- Anderson delivers. While this book is not Printz Award-finalist FEED or National Book Award winning OCTAVIAN NOTHING, it's a solid debut and better than most of the drivel out there.

"How can you tell people you're all alone when you're all alone?"

Chris wants his life back -- the one where he's digging on Rebecca Schwartz and hanging with his best friends Tom and Jerk (aka Michael Polinsky). The trouble is, he is turning into a vampire.

Chris' Massachusetts town is gearing up for the annual Sad Festival of Vampires. Each year the rituals and celebrations are performed to keep the Vampire Lord, Tch'muchgar, The Melancholy One, locked in his underwater prison beneath the Wompanoag Reservoir. As long as the town does its part, then the dark god cannot escape and take over again.

Chris' family is a little crazy. His parents -- affectionately referred to as Ward and June (get the cleaver joke there? Eh?) -- are headed for divorce. His brother is a year older, drives a car (danger, danger), and is a royal pain in the finger.

And Chris? He's been obsessed with his reflection lately. And people's necks. Then there's the sound that he thinks he hears of blood pumping through people's veins. Pointy teeth are filling his mouth and making it hard to talk. He's getting letters from vampire girls like Lolli Chasuble, inviting him to "come out of the coffin" tonight with her. And all of a sudden, mirrors are really freaky.

So when he and his friends hop over to Bradley to watch the public lynching of a vampiress, things get a little crazy for Chris. For one, the vampiress looks right at him like she knows something. Then he gets a visit from a man in a suit who calls himself Chet the Celestial Being and says he works for the Forces of Light. The vampires are planning an attack, he says. At the height of the festival, they are going to release Tch'muchgar and take over the town and maybe the world.

But here's the catch: if Chris helps take The Arm of Moriator into The Vampire Lord's kingdom then Chet will keep Chris from becoming a vampire.

Seems easy enough, right? Until Chris tries it.

-- Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens


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Thirsty MT Anderson Books Reviews

One of my favorite young adult works. I can't remember whether I read Thirsty or MT Anderson's short story "watch and wake" first, but I do recall being very taken with the magical-realism occult america setting that the two stories share. I would very much like to revisit this setting in future books, but I suspect this will not happen.
I really enjoyed the humor and interesting take on a vampire story, not to mention the writer is quite good at establishing scenes and personalities. However, it just feels very unfinished in that there is no resolution for the protagonist and most things just happen around the main character- not even necessarily to him... If you can enjoy a book with an uncertain ending, then by all means read on. I unfortunately like endings a bit more definitive, so three stars from me for a very solid beginning and middle but very weak end.
In the world of Thirsty, vampires, faeries, witches and other supernatural beings are known to exist, though typically on the periphery of human society.

Here, in this peculiar version of our world, people discovered to be vampires are immediately executed, without a trial, based on the presumption that they've already killed one or more humans in order to survive. Thus, our protagonist, Chris, is devastated when he finds out that, much to his shock, he's turning into one of the "damned," himself. Almost immediately, he meets someone who claims to possess the ability to stop Chris' change -- in exchange for the teenager's help with a matter involving a vampire lord, imprisoned in a parallel universe, for centuries. If Chris agrees to the dangerous task, he will be allowed to remain human.

This is not a great work of literature, people. Thirsty is flawed (the first-person narration is stilted and has a curious lack of contractions) and somewhat simplistic, with a rather tepid protagonist -- but it manages to be engaging enough that I read it in one sitting. It also has an ending that I, personally, didn't see coming.

All in all, this was a mildly entertaining but severely uneven effort by the author. I would suggest borrowing it from the library instead of purchasing it.
Disclaimer I bought this because John Green told me to. I also read this because John Green told me to.

That said, I was expecting the writing to be much more sophisticated, but this is intended for middle school readers.
This one will truly move you, if you let it. Brilliant satire, very dark humor, extremely well written. Not just for kids, and not for just any kid. Christopher's story is one that will stay with you, if you're paying attention and can see through the satyrical tone to the meat of the story (pun intended). Like others of Anderson's books, "Thirsty" is not for the faint of heart--not because of violence or gore, but because of the depth of desolation some of his characters endure. And yet, this book is eminently worth reading, perhaps more than once. I laughed, i ached, i even cried (uncommon). It contains, hands down, the most laugh-out-loud hilarious and simultaneously heartbreaking cry of desperation perhaps ever written. I won't spoil it for you. I'll just say it happens near a tree.
So I've finally read all of M.T. Anderson's young adult novels. I still love his fresh, entertaining, and complex writing style. His first young adult novel, THIRSTY, is no different. Playing on themes of teenage angst turned vampirism, the oppression of different races, and the right of a creature to live even if it has to kill -- Anderson delivers. While this book is not Printz Award-finalist FEED or National Book Award winning OCTAVIAN NOTHING, it's a solid debut and better than most of the drivel out there.

"How can you tell people you're all alone when you're all alone?"

Chris wants his life back -- the one where he's digging on Rebecca Schwartz and hanging with his best friends Tom and Jerk (aka Michael Polinsky). The trouble is, he is turning into a vampire.

Chris' Massachusetts town is gearing up for the annual Sad Festival of Vampires. Each year the rituals and celebrations are performed to keep the Vampire Lord, Tch'muchgar, The Melancholy One, locked in his underwater prison beneath the Wompanoag Reservoir. As long as the town does its part, then the dark god cannot escape and take over again.

Chris' family is a little crazy. His parents -- affectionately referred to as Ward and June (get the cleaver joke there? Eh?) -- are headed for divorce. His brother is a year older, drives a car (danger, danger), and is a royal pain in the finger.

And Chris? He's been obsessed with his reflection lately. And people's necks. Then there's the sound that he thinks he hears of blood pumping through people's veins. Pointy teeth are filling his mouth and making it hard to talk. He's getting letters from vampire girls like Lolli Chasuble, inviting him to "come out of the coffin" tonight with her. And all of a sudden, mirrors are really freaky.

So when he and his friends hop over to Bradley to watch the public lynching of a vampiress, things get a little crazy for Chris. For one, the vampiress looks right at him like she knows something. Then he gets a visit from a man in a suit who calls himself Chet the Celestial Being and says he works for the Forces of Light. The vampires are planning an attack, he says. At the height of the festival, they are going to release Tch'muchgar and take over the town and maybe the world.

But here's the catch if Chris helps take The Arm of Moriator into The Vampire Lord's kingdom then Chet will keep Chris from becoming a vampire.

Seems easy enough, right? Until Chris tries it.

-- Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens