DRACULA'S BRUNCH CLUB
by the towering, glowering vampire Constantine, who’s banned people. Worse, Dracula’s entire store of “the crimson\u002Dred, blood orange jelly all vampires crave” has been raided. Local farmers have no blood oranges—a blight has destroyed the crops. This proves disastrous even as Dracula tries to regain his brunch\u002Dhosting ground—kale is no substitute for delicious, energizing fruit jelly. The shortage also jeopardizes his standing with his crush, the human Elena, since he’s promised to donate a year’s supply of jelly donuts to her charity auction to help sick children. Something must be done—and it might just involve blood. After all, Count Dracula is a vampire. This book will greatly appeal to young readers looking for comics with a little edge: The gore is mild and cartoon\u002Dsilly, and there are plenty of jokes to lighten the mood. The story moves at a measured pace, and the fun, kid\u002Dfriendly artwork adds depth to the narrative. Gaybba’s color palette predominantly contains cool, moody tones that make the occasional spots of red—mostly jelly and blood—pop. Human and vampire characters have skin in varying shades of blue and purple."
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Vampires who would rather curate a brunch menu than hunt anything is the joke this book builds its whole premise on, and it keeps returning to that gap between what a monster is supposed to want and ...
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Vampires who would rather curate a brunch menu than hunt anything is the joke this book builds its whole premise on, and it keeps returning to that gap between what a monster is supposed to want and what these particular monsters actually want. The chills stay mild and cartoonish rather than genuinely scary, so the humor gets to do most of the work, but there is a real conflict underneath the jokes: going against a family's expectations, vampire or otherwise, costs something, and the book does not pretend that tension away.
The clubhouse setting gives the story a home base to keep returning to between set pieces, and the young vampires running it feel like a specific group of friends rather than a generic monster ensemble, which is what makes the community-over-scares angle land instead of feeling like a moral bolted onto a comedy. It is shelved in paperback for ages 12 to 18, though the tone reads younger and gentler than that range suggests, more clever-and-silly than edgy. With a 4.06 average across 224 Goodreads ratings, it is a reasonable bet for a kid who wants monster-adjacent without nightmares afterward.
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