![]() I don’t think this is a thing I noticed as a kid, but as an adult it slaps you in the face. This can be either comforting or cloying, depending on your mood, and the particular story. Like gauzy curtains blowing around you on a hot summer day. Some people have described it as “whimsical,” but I describe it as “gauzy.” It’s like reading everything through a warm haze. Not because it’s an advanced writing style or anything, but because it’s so dreamy-feeling. I remember the wish-fulfillment present in reading this as that kid, but I no longer feel it present in reading this as an adult.Īlso, a note on Cooney – her writing style is one of the more challenging ones to get through among the Point Horror authors. I’ve mostly moved on from that mindset, but that sad, angry tween is still floating around somewhere in the back of my head, popping up every now and then to be angry and sad at me. I probably would have done some morally shady shit to be liked, just like the girl in this book. That’s one of the reasons these old books meant so much to me – they were my escape.Īs a kid, I read this and wanted some magical being to come fix my life, too. ![]() it was a dark time in my life, especially from ages 11-14ish. Look, I was a sad kid, okay? Fifth grade was awful, the beginning of sixth was going okay until some girl who hated me started turning my new best friend against me, then we moved from California back to Kansas and I basically just stopped going to school fell into the throes of debilitating social anxiety and depression. I used to love this trilogy, and wish for my own wishpire to grant me friends and popularity (and when we get to the second book, add “beauty, brains, and athleticism” to the list). So I was probably 11 or 12 when I read this series. This book would have come out around the time I was turning 10, but I’m pretty sure I read the second one in the trilogy first. It’s a goddamn vampire who grants wishes, okay? Nostalgia Time!īoy, you wouldn’t think a book called “The Cheerleader” would turn out to be about a vampire, would you? Or, a. ![]() And she becomes a cheerleader.Īnd she’ll do whatever she has to do to get it. “Suppose,” he says with an evil smile, “that I could make you popular.” All Althea has to do is agree to a simple bargain. ![]() She gets no phone calls, shares no laughter, has no friends. The girl Althea longs to be.Īlthea is a nobody. The beautiful, popular girl who sparkles with energy and excitement. Tagline: She would do anything to be popular.ĭescription: She wants it all. Title: The Cheerleader (Vampire’s Promise trilogy, Book 1) ![]()
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