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Dangerous Girls #2: The Taste of Night

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Seventeen-year-old Destiny Weller couldn't have been closer to her identical twin sister Livvy. But all that changed when Livvy decided to become a full-fledged vampire, and Destiny made the decision to go back to her human ways, and stop being a creature of the night. Destiny, now a recent high school graduate, and her scientist/vampire hunter/veterinarian Father, will do anything to convince Livvy that she is a cherished part of their family, and that she must come back to them, and discontinue her life of living as a princess of darkness. But Livvy likes her new lifestyle. She has many friends. Friends who also prowl once the sun goes down, who head to nightclubs with her, and prey on defenseless teenagers out to have a good time. However, Livvy also has plans of her own in mind. Plans that Destiny must join the dark side, and become a vampire once again, before the two of them can ever be reunited.

Once again, R.L. Stine has created an amazing new novel, featuring his very interesting characters, Destiny and Livvy Weller from his previous novel DANGEROUS GIRLS. However, THE TASTE OF NIGHT is written in a way, much different than most books of today, as at times the story is told backwards. For instance, part one takes place in July, but part two takes place one month earlier, in June, part three takes place earlier that day, and so on, which can at time get a teensy bit confusing, but is fairly self-explanatory. As in the first book, Destiny is still following her good-girl ways, while Livvy is up to her bad girl self, and nasty tricks, once again. The ending leaves a great cliff-hanger that will have fans of both DANGEROUS GIRLS, and THE TASTE OF NIGHT, itching to discover what will happen next. Overall this is a wonderful book, and an absolute must-read for those who enjoyed the previous novel in the series, or for fans of vampire novels, in general.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

The sequel to Dangerous Girls, The Taste of Night, is a normal R.L. Stine novel. What do I mean? Easy-to-read, quick-to-read, mininum details, little character development, etc. The book is still pretty interesting, aside from the complaints above. If you enjoyed the first book, you will love this one as well!

I really liked this second book and thought it was a good continuation of the original. The plot was good and there were many surprises, just not enough detail. I liked Stine's books for kids and I like how he's started to write books for more mature teenagers. Good book.

Two months have passed since Destiny Weller last saw her twin sister Livvy. Back then, they had both been fighting the darkness that threatened to consume the town of Dark Springs, Massachusetts. That was before Livvy decided to turn toward the darkness and become a vampire --- while taking Ross, Destiny's long-time crush, along for the ride and breaking the strong foundation of their family as well.

Destiny has since tried to move on and make a new life for herself and her family. She and her friends, Ana-Li and Ari Stark, have recently graduated from high school and are preparing to head off to college. Everyone is excited about the prospect of beginning a new chapter in their lives. For Destiny, however, this is not exactly the case; she has to stay in Dark Springs to keep her family together. Her little brother Mikey has begun to hallucinate and her father, Dr. Weller, is still nowhere closer to finding a cure for vampirism.

Meanwhile, Livvy is thriving in the nightlife and doesn't care to go back to what she considers to be her boring old life. Along with her new friends, Monica and Suzie, Livvy loves going out each night to party with hot guys --- the same hot guys whom they love to feed on, especially under a full moon. One night, when Monica mentions that there was a graduation ceremony at the twins' high school earlier that day, Livvy becomes defensive, but nonetheless decides to have a graduation party of her own and suggests that they go to the new club, Rip, to celebrate and feed.

Destiny and Ari also decide to go to the club, where most of their friends and classmates are celebrating. They have recently begun dating, but Destiny feels awkward about Ari's changing personality due to the incident with Livvy and Ross. This is made even more apparent when Ari accuses Destiny of being too serious, and the young couple gets into an argument. Destiny becomes angry when she sees Ari dancing with a beautiful red-haired girl and leaves the club. Little does she know the twist of fate that lies ahead.

Livvy is hanging out by the bar in Rip, on the prowl for a hot guy to cure the edge of hunger that she constantly feels. It seems as though this could be her lucky night when she meets a handsome college student named Patrick. The two flirt, and Livvy goes outside for a smoke while waiting for Patrick to meet up with her. Destiny sees Livvy and begs her to come back home. Livvy threatens to turn her twin sister into a vampire, but lets a frightened and confused Destiny go.

Afterwards, Livvy sees Patrick and lures him into the woods surrounding the parking lot of the club. The moonlight is bright and there's excitement in the air, perfect for a vampire and her prey. Livvy realizes that she is truly attracted to Patrick and the couple passionately kisses. Hunger soon overtakes Livvy and she goes in for the kill, but to her horror, she finds out that Patrick is a vampire who wants to change things around Dark Springs. Patrick soon leaves a very confused Livvy, who is hungrier than before and realizes that she hasn't seen the last of the mysterious vampire.

The next day, Destiny drops off her little brother at day camp and begins her new job at the Four Corners Diner. Two of Destiny's old friends are customers there, and she tries to talk to them about their summer as she give them their menus. The friends feel awkward when they ask about Destiny's future plans, and Livvy and Ross. After work, Destiny decides to go by Ari's house and apologize about what happened the night before. Instead, though, she finds herself being questioned about the events surrounding Ari's murder!

Destiny can't believe that anyone would kill Ari, but considers the sad possibility of her own twin sister being the murderer. Her friend Ana-Li doesn't believe that Livvy is responsible, but Destiny doesn't know what to think of her sister anymore. Could she be the next victim? Two weeks go by without any more abnormalities, and Destiny gradually begins to have some sort of normal life once again. She meets Harrison, a college student and the new cook at the diner, and agrees to go to a friend's birthday party with him.

While there, Destiny meets Harrison's friend Alby, and the reality shakes her once again that the presence of vampires is everywhere, and that the life she once knew will never return. A few days later, her twin sister has a nasty shock and thinks that Destiny is responsible. Livvy decides to plot her revenge against Destiny with Patrick, but doesn't realize that Destiny is fearful for her sister's life. Will Destiny save her sister in time, or will she become Livvy's next victim?

I thought THE TASTE OF NIGHT was more suspenseful and intriguing than the first book. There were a few unexpected twists that kept you guessing right until the very end. I definitely recommend this book to fans of R.L. Stine and readers who like supernatural horror. It will be quite interesting to see what other events unfold in the town of Dark Springs as the series continues.

--- Reviewed by Sarah Sawtelle (SdarksideG@aol.com)

I liiked how the story was more fast-paced and how it was more involved in the vampire stuff. But I also liked the first book better, here's why:
The second book was too romantic, and in the second book Destiny isn't a vampire. I don't like how Livvy is much more mean in this book either. Though the cover art is better in this book, looks aren't everything. The perks with this was that this book is more fast-paced, interesting, and there are more charectors involved. But the ending wasn't as satisfactory as in the first book, though it was still very good! It was griping and I couldn't stop reading! This is just my opinion though.

This is a fabulous, well written book.
The story about the dangerous vamipres proceed in "Dangerous Girls 2".
I must admit that the first book seemed better; there were some tedious and slow bits in this one. I will not spill to much information here, but there were, to me, some disappointments.
Look apart from that, though, this is a great book.

In this small town Dark Springs,Massachusetts theres two twin sisters livvy & Destiny Weller.They may look alike but their completly different.Destiny is this out going girl who loves her life the way it is.Then theres Livvy she likes her life but its kinda not really what she wants.She wants to be free and live longer and never grow old.So theres an invasion of vampires and sadly Livvy is one of them.Their father Dr.Weller is so mad and sad at the sametime that he wants to distroy the vampire population,for they have killed his beloved wife and stole his beautiful daughter.Then on another side he wants to find a cure for the vampire curse and save his daughhter and her friend Ross before its to late.Ross is Livvys boyfriend,He had decided to go with Livvy and become vampire,Even thou he haden wanted to.The twins have a little brother named mikey that is very terrified by this comosion that he starts dreaming about vampires and thinking he see livvy.Destiny is a graduate and all her close friends are moving a way from Dark springs and going to some major college,while Destiny is stuck going to some boring community college,for she dosent want to leave her father and brother behide.she doesn't want mike to think he's lost another sister.Destinys boyfriend Ari is killed by one of Livvys vampire friends so she starts having a bad time.She decide to apply for a summer job at a diner,where shes a waiter.While Destinys living her life livvys also suffering a lost for her formal boyfriend was murdered.She thinks Destiny did this to get back at Livvy for her lose of her own boyfriend that she stakes a revenge apun Destiny.While Clubing earlyer that night Livvy had ran acrossed another vampire who she had asumed to be a human.when she finds out,she has a plan.This guy will turn Destiny into a vampire.Unfortunly Destiny dont no.Meanwhile destiny meets another boy at the diner she works at.His name is Harrison.She starts going out with him,meeting all his close friends when a strange walks in one day and askes Destiny out.Secretly she says yes.Thats the day Destiny will turn.Finding that Destiny did not it fact kill Ross but to find the man she hired to turn Destiny is Ross's killer.She trys to warn Destiny and it turns out that they kill Patrick.This story was very great,filled with horror.it was in a 2nd point of view

Sixteen year old Destiny Weller and her twin sister Livvy used to be very close, until Livvy chose to become a vampire. Now Destiny will do anything to get her sister back. But then Destiny realises that the only way to bring Livvy back is if Destiny becomes a vampire too!
A good book. I liked the first one better. I really disliked the ending.
--Scottie Schaeffer age 10

This book is DAMN good. I hope a third one comes out. It's different. At the end my heart cried out cause it was so sad. I feel sorry for the twins. Very EXCELLENT book. One of RL Stine's best!

I loved the book. It had vivid details, and when you start reading it is hard to put it down. If you are going to get a book off of Amazon get this one. You will not be disappointed.