SuitabookMidnight fright
Anna Wilson
- Reading
- Pause after the cousin’s arrival and before the audition outcome to discuss Vlad’s feelings, Lupus’s behaviour and possible surprises; check afterwards whether the ending changes your view.
- Themes
- Friendship beneath competition: Lupus attracts the humans’ attention, while school-play auditions distinguish talent and reveal who has true friends. The book presents this favourably.
- Feeling overshadowed: Vlad worries about Lupus following him to school and feels despair when Lupus charms the pupils. The situation clearly places Vlad under social pressure, but the book’s judgement of his feelings and responses is unknown.
- Worth knowing
- Vampire imagery, magical transformation and social distress are present. The tone appears playful in places, but the level of frightening detail and how Vlad’s despair resolves remain unclear.