Review of the Book “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod” by Zac Brewer
Vlad is a thirteen year old who lives alone with his overprotective aunt who doesn’t know much about his parents. But there is one thing different about Tod that makes his whole life harder, he is half vampire. He wears tons of SPF 1000 sunscreen, chases after his crush, and even eats regular people food. That is if you don’t count the extra necessities he drinks that his aunt Nelly brings home from work. His closest friend, Henry, actually knows about his…problem, and is very supportive in making sure no one else finds out. All in all, Vlad has a happy life, until he realizes he is being hunted.
This is the biggest conflict throughout the entire book, because it put his life in danger. The entire plot of the book would be a lot more calm, and maybe boring, if he wasn’t being hunted by vampire slayers. One of those slayers even comes out as being a new kid at the highschool, as well as Vlad’s friend. It all starts when Vlad’s teacher goes missing, and they get a substitute named Mr. Otis. Mr. Otis is strange and Vlad can tell that from the get-go. But he had no real proof to say why. Then Nelly invites the teacher over for dinner, as all hell breaks loose as he is hired to kill Nelly and Vlad.
A new problem forms while Vlad is on the run, he realizes that the marriage between his mother and father was illegal on both sides. This is because his mom was human, and father a vampire. The two species clash, especially when one feeds off of the other. There has never been a half blood vampire in all of existence until our protagonist was born. And not everyone is okay with this fact. This puts Vlad in the middle of a war being fought over him. He learns soon that Otis is his uncle who is on his side through all of this, even if he didn’t make that clear. And in the end he ends up saving him multiple times. And, because this is a series, we find out in the fifth book that Vlad is no normal vampire.
The one detail that no one wanted to tell Vlad was that he had much more power than the average vampire and human combined. He is actually all powerful, and prophesied to be the ruler of both the human and vampire world, which comes out to be true. But (less) powerful people want Vlad’s abilities, and the only way to get them is to kill him. But to Diablo, the antagonist, this is a small price to pay for world domination. And with an all out fight to the end, Vlad comes out on top. Yet his is faced with a cliffhanger roble that we well never see solved. He has a great power, mass mind control. And the fact that no one had free will when around Vlad doesn’t sit well with him.
All in all this is a ghoulishly fantastic book that goes into depth on Vladimir Tod’s life. The amount of antics and personalities of each character that is shown is amazing and the only way I I think I could make it better was is I changed the ending. Personally, I hate cliffhangers. Especially when there isn’t another book to solve them. I had wrote it I would’ve changed the ending to a universe where vlad either learns to control his powers without hurting others, of gives it away to the right hands. I think this would have made a much better ending.
