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YA book review: All Just Glass by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (January 11, 2011) Summary: Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampire—changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood. Aida Vida is Sarah's older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does her family proud. But when Aida's mother insists that Sarah be found and killed, Aida is given the one assignment that she may not be able to carry out.  Our review: "When witch-kin is slain, there shall be no safe haven, no higher law to protect the guilt. Every hunter shall turn her blade to the task, and there shall be no rest until those responsible have been slain." The words  from ...