
I don’t think I’ve ever NOT wanted to give a Meg Cabot heroine a BFF charm, and Meena’s no exception. Too bad it turns out he’s a vampire, and Meena gets caught in the middle of a war between prince Lucien and his half-brother Dimitri. So when she meets him again at her obnoxious neighbor’s dinner party, and it turns out he’s the Romanian prince her neighbor’s been trying to set her up with, DUH she goes home with him. She’s out walking her dog Jack Bauer late one night when she can’t sleep - because her archrival got the promotion she wanted and the network is forcing a vampire storyline on Insatiable - and is saved from a bat attack by a mysterious (and HOT) European dude who just happens to also be sleepless.

However, she CAN tell you exactly how you’re going to die (say what? that’s a sucky superpower - she’s like Jess Mastriani or Suze Simon all grown up). Probably why Meena doesn’t mention hating Buffy). She’s tired of seeing anemic guys parade around with stupid sticky-up hair like their favorite movie vampire (ahem) and she hates the damsel-in-distress storyline of most vampire tales (although I’d like to point out here that Buffy was never a damsel in distress. She does NOT believe in vampires, she’s sick of vampires, she hates the idea of vampires. Meena Harper is a struggling dialogue writer for legendary soap opera Insatiable. See? I wasn’t lying! The note from MEG CABOT (on shiny, silverish stationery, natch).


I know FYA here is all about young adult books (hello, it’s in our title), but every now and then, a girl’s gotta make an exception to the rule.

Relationship Status: Post-First-Date Excitement Talky Talk: Meg Cabot, Vampire History Ph.D.
