For the first time, we see inside the school where the young hereditary vampire-slayers are trained.

This one is seen alternately from the viewpoint of Quinn Drake, the fourth son, and Hunter Wild, a Helios-Ra girl who appeared briefly in the previous novel and is teasingly called Buffy by Quinn.

Each novel is seen from the viewpoints of different characters. Each one takes up shortly after the last. The entire series, so far, has been set over a fairly short time, only a few weeks. Not everyone on either side agrees with this treaty, which is probably a good thing for the purposes of the storylines or there would be no more novels in the series. Fortunately, the Drakes have made a treaty with the vampire-hunting society, the Helios-Ra. Solange’s boyfriend, Kieran, is not only human but a hereditary vampire-hunter. The Drake family has a born-vampire father, a mother who turned by choice and is now queen of the local vampire tribe, a single daughter, Solange, and seven gorgeous sons, two of whom are dating human girls. In this universe, you can be turned, but you can also be born to the vampire state, although you don’t change states until you’re sixteen. Out for Blood(Walker Books, Bloomsbury) is the third novel in the series about the peaceful vampire family, the Drakes, and the humans in their lives (or should that be their undeaths?).

Out for blood alyxandra harvey