'Ernessa is a vampire. She wants me, and only me, to see it. Her hand is guiding mine as I write these words...' At an exclusive boarding school, a 16-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious, moody presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark rumours, suspicions and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school, what is true and what is dreamed bleed together into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fuelled by the anxieties, lusts and fears of adolescence. At the centre of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: is Ernessa really a vampire? Or has the narrator trapped herself in her own fevered imagination?'

I had such high expectations for this book which is probably one of the reasons why I was so disappointed with it. Most of it flew over my head and left me feeling confused. It's such a shame because it sounded great from the splurge on the back - the idea behind it is brilliant - such a waste of potential. It's in perfect hard-back condition should anyone fancy giving it a try.