Morning McCobb has had a tough life. He has spent most of it in and out of the St. Giles Group Home for Boys and in foster homes. The only person who seemed to really stick around is Sister Flora, who ran the group home. When he is 16, he is finally placed with a good family, but things go horribly wrong on Thanksgiving Day, when a vampire strikes. His foster parents die, and he finds himself a vampire.

He ends up landing up in special training through the International League, where he really is different. Rather than being a little older and with model looks and appearance, he was not pre-selected to be a vampire. His accidental survival means that he is a geek with superhero dreams. Upon his graduation from training, he is given an opportunity to be the first vampire superhero when the League decides that they want to come out ... of the casket. They have decided that he would be the perfect person to be an example. Besides his average looks, he also has a dislike for blood, preferring to drink the artificial kind. As a result, he would probably be less threatening.

To help out with his introduction to the world, the League has hired Penny Dredful, a public relations maven, to orchestrate events. Along with her daughter Portia, who has hopes of a movie career of her own, Penny sets up a series of events that brings Morning into superstardom, which really takes on the form of a media frenzy.

As you can see from the description, the author is really playing up the humor aspect from the underdog protagonist to the playful names. Unfortunately, I find that the humor often falls a bit flat, and there really does not seem to be enough of a plot to support a whole novel in the manner that it is being presented. I really liked the concept behind the story, and the characters were interesting, but they were also really two dimensional. Even the name-play is more groaners than witty. For example, Morning is a character bringing about a new day for vampires.

Don't get me wrong. It is not that I didn't like the book. It was really just missing something, though I am not sure I could my finger on exactly what that is.