This was an interesting take on a vampire story. I don’t usually do scary because I am a baby. Although this had some frightening moments, (for me), I was fine with it. 
The main story is a love story. They were childhood loves, like real childhood, that were separated by a crazy circumstance. I liked that when they came back together they were both immediately happy but also, so very sad to see the other. They had told themselves one story that seeing the other threw a monkey wrench into. 
Again, the way they handled vampires was new for me. And if we hadn’t seen one in the first couple of pages, I would’ve thought it was all made up too. I almost did.
There is some romance but it is closed door. This fits the timbre of this book. My kids loved for me to tell them the plots of the books I’ve read and this was one I could do fairly easily and they loved it.