Amber Fang: Betrayal

by Arthur Slade

Overview

For Amber Fang, life used to be simple: study library science by day, read by night and, when she got hungry, enjoy an ethical meal straight from the jugular.

Amber's mother taught her well. It's just good manners for vampires to eat only murderers. But now her mom has vanished, and Amber is alone. Her contract work as an assassin has been terminated. But the secret organization ZARC is still trying to hunt her down, using algorithms, drones and a murderess with metal hands. Through the dark web Amber learns that her long-lost mother has been "disappeared" to a secret compound in Antarctica. When Amber arrives and pries open a door to investigate, what she discovers shocks her to the core. And it will change her life forever. If she survives.

Amber Fang: Betrayal is the second book in the popular Amber Fang series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459822740
Publisher:	Orca Book Publishers
Publication date:	09/03/2019
Series:	Amber Fang , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Arthur Slade is a Governor General's Award-winning author of many novels for young readers, including the Amber Fang series and Modo: Ember's End, a graphic novel based on the characters from The Hunchback Assignments trilogy. Raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Arthur now makes his home in Saskatoon.

Editorial Reviews

For readers who enjoyed the first book, this sequel continues with the same strengths: well-described action scenes, clever insults and bad puns, sneaky literary references, and the glamour of international travel.

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Funnier and more explosive than the first, with an enjoyable mix of mystery, espionage, and paranormal elements, with bonus librarian joshing.

Booklist

This fast-paced book is full of adventure and suspense at every turn. It is well written and will keep readers on the edge of their seats. The constant plot twists and multiple themes will engage and entertain adolescent and young adult readers.

Must Read Literature: K thru YA

Genuinely funny on many levels, the Amber Fang books are quick, enjoyable reads for fans of Mission Impossible and Marvel movies and readers who like their vampires campy. Recommended.

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

Top-notch supernatural thrillers...The Amber Fang novels are an absolute hoot, relentlessly gripping, and genuinely surprising…For many readers, Amber Fang will serve as a midpoint between Disney’s Kim Possible and Kristi Charish’s Kincaid Strange.

Quill & Quire

Funnier and more explosive than the first, with an enjoyable mix of mystery, espionage, and paranormal elements, with bonus librarian joshing.

Booklist

2019-07-13
Ethical vampire librarian Amber Fang is back in a high-stakes sequel to Hunted (2019).

Six months after walking away from her job as an assassin for the mysterious League, Amber uses her research skills as librarian-in-training to track her missing mother to Antarctica. The compound is kept by the arms-dealing company ZARC Industries and holds more secrets and near-fatal dangers than Amber signed up for—and no sign of her mother. After being rescued by the League and sharing some of the explosive new knowledge she acquired, it looks like working together again is in the cards despite Amber's reservations. But a vampire on the hunt needs allies where she can get them. Running head-first into danger and armed with her fangs, a high dose of sardonic humor, and librarian jokes, Amber finds that dealing with secret organizations, political intrigue, ninja librarians, a doppelgänger, vampires who want her ovaries, and even an evil AI can be overwhelming. This spy thriller/paranormal adventure introduces more mysteries to be solved, leaving a healthy number of open threads in its wake. Events do have a tendency to happen to Amber as she is pushed around by multiple shadowy organizations, so here's hoping that in the trilogy closer she will find not only her mother, but also some much-needed agency. Main characters are white.

A fast-paced, entertaining middle entry for fans of vampires and librarians. (Paranormal thriller. 14-adult)

Kirkus Reviews