The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman ★★★★☆

"All you need to know is that you cannot trust me." 

These are true words, heed them. All the warnings on the first page were true. 

The first half of the book is a successful series of vignettes about a coven of vampires living under Manhattan in the 1940s through 1970s. It's light page turning entertainment.
Then things get properly dark...

Vampire children...
Claudia in Interview with the Vampire. 
Nikolaos in Guilty Pleasures 
Eli in Let the Right One In 
Jane in New Moon 
If you are fan of the vampire genre I think you will agree there is no more frightening kind of vampire than a child vampire. And the kids of Lesser Dead are the worst. 

I'll never again hear about kids playing with their food with out thinking of this book.

Now to briefly touch upon the end. I think there should be a category for books that end like this. Kind of like The Sixth Sense only not nice. 

The moment I finished I thought to give it five stars for being generally good and surprising me. But then I had dinner, gathered myself to review, and was just mad about it, lol. It wasn't a nice surprise, it was a slap. So I'll give Lesser Dead 4.5 Stars, and round down to four, because I slap back.