Saltwater Vampires

by Kirsty Eagar

Overview

Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards for Young Adult fiction

Holidays in the coastal village of Rocky Head should mean surfing, dodging tourists and partying at the local music festival. But when Jamie Mackie is savagely bitten in the surf by a friend, he realises things are going to be different this summer. The Mutineers are in town, a coven of brutal vampires created in the shipwreck of the Batavia, four hundred years ago. If their plans succeed, nobody in Rocky Head will survive to see out the new year.

A thrilling tale of surfing, the supernatural and one of the bloodiest incidents in Australian maritime history, by the award-winning author of Raw Blue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780645151404
Publisher:	Little Wins Press
Publication date:	05/05/2021
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Kirsty Eagar's Young Adult novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous literary awards including the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards, the Western Australia Premier's Awards and the Gold Inky. She is currently writing the screenplay for the feature film adaptation of her novel Raw Blue.

Kirsty was raised by her mother and grandmother on a farm in Central Queensland. After studying economics, she worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of England, before changing course. She then worked and surfed her way around Australia and started writing. Kirsty is married with two daughters and now lives in Sydney. She surfs most days, competes in the infamous North Narrabeen boardriders' club and is a contributor at White Horses surf magazine.

Editorial Reviews

5/5 stars ... Saltwater Vampires is a little bit The Lost Boys and a little bit Thirty Days of Night, set in a small Australian coastal town. I absolutely loved it. The Book Nerd.

This is not your run of the mill teen vampire book. Kirsty Eagar has mixed Australian history, vampires and surfing and rolled out a fast-paced thriller that I could not put down. I finished it last night, even though I only received it in the mail yesterday morning. We Love YA.

Eagar's writing style reminded me of our two heavy-weight authors (in their respective readerships) Tim Winton and John Marsden ... Saltwater Vampires takes place in and around the sea (Australia is an island, after all) ... The eeriness of a black ocean at night, and the loneliness of crashing waves; Eagar captures this picturesque Australian scenery and turns it into an astonishingly spine-tingling gothic setting ... Danielle Binks, Alpha Reader.

Jamie and his mates are not your usual heroes or vampire slayers ... They are mates who watch each other's backs as well as let each other down and these contradictions are so well drawn that the characters breathe on their own and worked their way into my heart ... Inkcrush.

As well as all the bloodlust and biting, there is a genuinely well written narrative. It is taut and tense ... It's a thriller and so much more. Look out for it. This is the Best Book Ever.

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