Fun easy vampire read! - Rated 
I found this book incredibly fun, the way Raven is obsessed with vampires is funny and the story is quick and light, the only thing I found really cringey was how 'goth' she is meant to be, but then again, there are a lot of teens like that in reality! I will definitely look out for the other books in the series.
Chemistry....? - Rated 
Not exactly the most developed Vampire Novel I have read, not up there with the Twilight Series but definately in a similar sort of league as The Vampire Diaries and nearly up to the standard of The Night World Novels.
Very Cliche with the old style vampire myths followed with likeable enough characters, even if they don't seem to have an awful lot of dimension to them. It's questionable as to what relationships the characters actually have at some points, the reader is told that the characters are friends and just have to except this as there is never really are type of depth to this, eg. Raven and Becky, Matt and Trevor.
I was very confused at dates mentioned within the book, they seemed to make no sense, just to point out that halloween is only one day before November first, even though a LOT of time seemed to pass between the two dates.
This book opened a new path for me where I didn't find myself liking the "gentlemanly" vamp, who sometimes seemed to lose his gentlemanly ways, but instead the so called "Bully" Trevor, even if he was a bit of an ass, who in my belief had much better chemistry with Raven than the vamp, Alexander. He also got the better lines, and was a lot more interesting as a character.
I liked the book enough to carry on with the series, and I'm hoping it gets more...Dimensional, and has a bit more chemistry, as well as sense.
Best romance of vamprie genre!!! - Rated
The book is awesome. Once you pick it up it's like you cant put it down again. Or that's how I felt, and sadly I finished this book in a day. The style of writing is excellent, except that some bits do fail to make sense and the characters of the book are charming. Except Trevor .
Excellent read, recommended to all the romance readers out there.
very cliched, finished in two hours or less - Rated 
I bought this book in hope fo getting a decent vampire romance with action thrown in. Whilst the authors writing style is wity and very humorous in parts, the plot and characters let her down.
The huge amount of cliches and predictability in this series makes for very short and unsuprising reads. The main character, a wanna be vampire named Raven (sounds like a fanfiction character)is the only goth in all of dullsville, your average small town american setting. Mysterious strangers move into a haunted mansion on the outskirts of town. She spies on them and sees alexander, a vampire with feelings (here come the the cliches!!) and they immediatly fall in love with one another.
There is zero character development, the personalities of Raven, Trevor the bully, her best friend Becky and Alexander are, in the extreme, 2 dimentional. The vampires through out the series hold up the popular myths, they cast no reflections, are illergic to garlic and sleep in coffins during the day. Bleh.
Suitable for young teens or for very quick reads. The humorous prose and Ravens childhood memories are the best aspects of this series. Fun, quick read, but no different to hundreds of others.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too - Rated
Sixteen-year old Raven Madison started her obsession with the dark side in kindergarten. While the teacher was asking her young students what they wanted to be when they grew up and getting the typical responses of nurse, fire fighter, and football player, young Raven answered the question the only way she knew how--she wanted to grow up to be a vampire.
Raven's parents, Sarah and Paul, were typical hippies who spent their early years together waxing poetic about love and the music of the Grateful Dead. When Raven came along, they became slightly less hippie, in that they moved into an apartment instead of living in their Volkswagon van. Raven's first years were spent surrounded by lava lamps and glow-in-the-dark posters, with her parents playing games with her, eating junk food, and watching old horror films on the small black and white television. All of that changed, though, when two things happened--her mother dared to give birth to a brother, endearingly termed Nerd Boy, and they forced her to go to school, every day.
Now sixteen, Raven is still the outcast that she found herself to be when she proclaimed her life's ambition was to be a vampire. Now the only goth girl in a town dubbed Dullsville, Raven is still a social outcast who enjoys horror movies, black lipstick, and pushing her parents to the edge. Raven has no real friends except for Becky, a timid farm girl who lives on the wrong side of the tracks. None, that is, until the Sterling family moves into the dark, abandoned mansion sitting on top of Benson Hill.
Suddenly the whole town is talking about the mysterious Sterlings, especially the teenage son, Alexander. It's said he hangs out in the cemetery at night, that he's brought bats to town, that he's pale and is never seen outside during the daytime. Could Alexander be a real, live vampire? If so, he could be Raven's ticket out of this loser town. But does she really want to leave her family and real life behind to spend her days sleeping in a coffin? Or is all the hype just that--the ramblings and crazy speculation of a town who can't stand for anyone to be different?
As Raven gets closer to Alexander, she realizes that being a vampire might not matter so much as being loved for who she is. As she deals with the small-minded people in her town, she just might find out that she's not so different from the residents of Dullsville as she thought she was.
VAMPIRE KISSES is a good start to this entertaining vampire series by Ellen Schreiber. Although there are parts that appear too shallow for Raven's character, and way too many exclamation points for my taste, I still recommend the story, and look forward to reading the next book in the series, KISSING COFFINS.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
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