Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George
Seventeen year old cousins, Dacia and Lou, finally get to embark on their long awaited trip to see their mothers' native country of Romania. Dacia and her aunt are traveling ahead of Lou and her parents and so this story takes place with the two cousins exchanging letters as they travel through Europe on their way to meet their maternal cousins and grandmother.
The closer they get, they begin to discover their family's dangerous secrets and the unlikely centuries-old bond they have with the Dracula family and how it will affect their future.
This book really had a slow start and it wasn't until about 100 pages in that I felt like the story was ready to begin. I also didn't really understand the need of keeping the girls in the dark for so long about their transformative abilities. Once the story got started, George did a good job of giving a classic folktale new life.
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