Vampire Plagues Mexico, 1850 - Sam Brown

The book I decided to read was Vampire Plagues Mexico, 1850. This is the 3^rd and final book of the series. The author is Sebastian Rook. I saw the first book at Borders, and I thought it would be an exciting book to read. This year, I read the third book. This book seemed like it would be a good thrill book, or action book, to read, and the cover and title interested me. The cover shows hundreds of bats circling a Mayan temple in darkness.

This book begins with Ben, Emily, and Jack. They are 3 friends; Ben and Emily are brother and sister. They head back to Mexico to try and find the fourth and final piece of the amulet. They are a few days ahead of the evil that will be soon on its way to Mexico as well. They are sailing on a ship, when they see a bigger ship coming straight at them. At first they think its pirates, but pirates would never sail that close to shore. They try to outrun them, but the other ship is so much bigger, they would never be able to. They get boarded and everyone has to get into the sunlight, when Ben screams out, “Uncle Edwin!!” He was supposed to be dead, or so Ben thought. They all chatted and shared their stories of what had happened since Ben had seen him last. Uncle Edwin was patrolling the coast for the day Camazotz, the god of darkness and vampires, returned back to his land. He joined the Brotherhood of Chac. Chac was the god who was Camazotz’s greatest enemy. Since Camazotz arrival was a few days away, they could stop patrolling the shores for now. Edwin brings them to their secret headquarters. Ben and Uncle Edwin set off to find the fourth piece of the amulet, but they stumble into a town of vampires by mistake. They manage to hide, and the get away from there, but not before they find that Jack and Emily had been kidnapped, and hidden in that town. They are starting to leave, when they hear a voice, a familiar one, but can’t put a finger on it. When all of a sudden, vampires jump out from all around, and they get captured. The voice that sounded familiar was Camazotz’s. They are all in his sacred temple with every one of Camazotz’s vampires. Without giving away more of the ending, this is where I stop.

The quote I decided to take from the book was, “Lah yich saknik, maknik Chac.” This quote, or spell, takes away the evil from your mind. Camazotz has the power to control man. I choose this quote because it’s very interesting and sounds funny, and cool-like. Camazotz just has to think something in his mind, for example, kneel, and you hear it in your head and you kneel. If you continue to say this spell, his power over you weakens, but does not go away completely. This spell has helped quite a bit for everyone that has known of it.

I decided to use bats as my rating system, because the whole story was about vampire bats. I gave this book 5 bats, because I liked it very much, and have read it about 2 or 3 times over.

I recommend this book for people who like action. There is action on almost every page of this book. If you like suspense, then this is definitely the book for you. It keeps you hanging through the whole book! But then you notice you finished the book. At the end of each book, the author gives a little sample of the next book, and once you read it, you find yourself already buying the next book. It’s that good. The third reason I recommend this book, well, you will have to read it to find out. Ha-ha, just kidding. If you like vampires, I would also recommend this book. The entire book is about them. Even the cover says the word vampire on it!

I would suggest that only children over the age of 12 read this book. It can get pretty scary. WARNING: This book has excessive violence, gore, and blood. This book is not suitable for children under the age of 12. It creates vivid images in your mind that you may not like.