Review

Team Human

Common Sense Media says

Engaging, suspenseful vampire spoof has real substance.
Age
13
Quality
 
  • Educational value2
    Team Human cleverly plays with the comment elements of traditional and contemporary vampire fiction. The more the reader knows about the conventions and cliches of the genre, the more she or he is likely to enjoy the novel's humor.
  • Positive messages3
    Team Human presents the rather unusual situation of humans and vampires living together in relative harmony. Each group slightly distrusts the other, but the characters come to reassess their prejuices and assumptions.
  • Positive role models3
    Mel, the narrator of Team Human, is extremely loyal to her friends, but her loyalty sometimes makes her overprotective and blinds her to the assumptions she makes about other people. Over the course of the novel, she learns to question her prejudices, especially those she harbors against vampires. Eventually, she starts to see that she can't control how her friends think or feel and opens herself up to new relationships she might have previously dismissed.
  • Violence2
    Except for a zombie attack that's more sad than frightening, there's almost no violence in Team Human.
  • Sex3
    Romance and sex are on the minds of most of the characters in Team Human, but the level of physical intimicy depicted never extends much beyond a few scenes of passionate kissing. An adult character is suspected of having deserted his family to pursue an affair.
  • Language2
    "Damn," "hell," "ass," and "crap" are each used a few times.
  • Consumerism0
    Not applicable.
  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking0
    Not applicable.
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What parents need to know

Parents need to know that Team Human is a clever and engaging spoof of trends in vampire fiction. There's little violence (one zombie attack) and only a small amount of swearing ("damn," "hell," "ass," and "crap" are each used a few times). Dating and romance are on the minds of all the main characters, but physical intimacy doesn't extend much beyond passionate kissing. Mel's college-age sister talks discreetly about her lesbian social life, and one of Mel's friends is revealed as bisexual.

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