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The Traveling Vampire Show written by Richard Laymon (2000) may be about teens but is not really written for them.

Three teens living in a little idealistic town have one thing one their minds. They saw the poster announcing one night only performance of the Traveling Vampire Show where you can see the gorgeous, beguiling and lethal Valeria, the only living vampire in captivity! The problem being is that you have to be eighteen to attend. A story of what lengths these teens will go through to see what they most desire, and ow they get more then they expected.

This is a compelling read. The three teens are very real and they have very real fear, loves and lives. The story will take you through a range of emotions that I like in a book. There were times when I wanted to see the traveling show myself. Then I would be hoping that they didn't make it as I started to really care about them. Then I would get angry at the stubborn mind set that kept driving them there. I realized that it was the same emotions that I have had dealing with other teens. That made the book all that much better because the author made sure I knew these kids. I liked this book. It took me on a journey into my past as I lived with these teens and their desires and their fear. A recommended read but possibly to much of a horror for younger readers. I believe this is a book meant to take adults back into their youth and then into terror.