This is the story of Octobia May, an African American girl
growing up in the 1950s. She lives with
her aunt in a boarding house and her aunt tries to give her as much freedom as
possible, which is way too much, according to some people in town. Octobia is absolutely convinced that one of
her aunt’s tenants, Mr. Davenport, is a vampire. Even when she realizes that he isn’t, she
still thinks he is up to something and she is determined to find out what. With the help of her friends, Jonah and
Bessie, Octobia gets into a lot of scrapes trying to prove that Mr. Davenport
is up to no good but she may find that she’s bitten off more than she can chew
before everything is said and done. This
story was good and kids that like a good adventure might like it but I found it
kind of hard to read. It was difficult
for me to figure out who was talking a lot of the time, which made the story
confusing. Plus, I didn’t find a lot of
the adults to be very convincing. Maybe
kids would find them more believable, but I had a hard time believing that a
lot of the adults in this books would act like or say a lot of the things that
happened in this story. I can’t say that
I would highly recommend it to anyone.
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