Starts off as a supernatural novel of a girl who can collapse space on her bike and a librarian who can see the future in Scrabble tiles, but it eventually becomes the story of a mother trying to rescue her kidnapped son. There's still the underpinnings of supernatural events, but it's not nearly as much of a vampire novel as the title would seem to indicate. There are a couple of "Hollywood" moments, where oversized and unrealistic explosions save the hero and advance the plot in a tidy fashion, but those are just brief distractions from an otherwise riveting novel. (And yes, 'riveting' is something of a lazy reviewer's word, but Janet Maslin, in her review in the NY Times, described the novel as 'throat-grabbing," which is perfect and there's no way I can come up with something better.)