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Overview

"If you ever want to hide from the world, live in a small city, where everyone seems anonymous."

That's the advice of twelve-year-old Ariella Montero, who lives with her father in Saratoga Springs, New York, in a house haunted more by secrets than by memories. The Society of S traces her journey south, to Asheville and Savannah, and on to Florida, as she learns that everything she knows about her family is a lie.

When she finds her mother, she learns the truth: Ariella is a fledgling member of the Society of S.


Susan Hubbard's novel is an intricate literary mystery that raises provocative questions about the way we live now. Ariella's voice will lure you into a world where you'll meet the others among us: vampires who cope with their special nature and need for blood in a variety of ways, ranging from the savage to the mundane to the scientific.

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Identity issues involving a child of mixed heritage get a supernatural spin in this affecting coming-of-age tale. Ariella Montero's mother vanished the day she was born, leaving her to the care of her overprotective scientist father, who homeschools her and limits her contact with the outside world. Only when she reaches adolescence does Ari discover that her special diet and insular home life set her apart from her peers. Her father's confession that he was vampirized shortly before marriage, and that Ari can choose whether to be undead like him or mortal like mom, set her off on a road trip that eventually brings her to her mother and into an understanding of tough truths about her family. Hubbard (Walking on Ice) delineates Ari's world of innocent and uncertain adolescence with uncommon poignance and forgoes sensationalism for sensitivity in her depiction of vampirism as one of many emotionally charged challenges Ari faces as a child of estranged parents. She doesn't do much original with the vampire theme, but the novel's open ending suggests inevitable sequels where this may develop further. Author tour. (May)

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Ariella Montero has had an unusual upbringing. Raised in a distinctly Victorian house in Saratoga Springs, New York, she has been home schooled by her father and his assistant, Dennis. Her father works from home and is extremely protective of her in a distant way, telling her that her bland diet (cooked with generally unappetizing results by Mrs. McGarrity, the housekeeper-cum-nanny) is to prevent her developing the lupus that affects him. Ariella is plagued by strange dreams and unanswered questions about her mother, who disappeared shortly after Ariella's birth. She exists in this pinafored, intellectual, mysterious state, however, until she turns twelve, and Mrs. McGarrity unexpectedly revolts. Telling her employer in no uncertain terms that Ariella is missing out on a normal childhood, Mrs. McGarrity takes the girl to her home, where Ariella meets Kathleen, her first friend, and Michael, her first love interest. These contacts with the "outside world" prove catalytic, as Kathleen falls for Ariella's mysteriously handsome father with disastrous results and Ariella insists on some answers-and eventually a reunion with her mother in Homosassa Springs, Florida. It also wrenches from her father the truth about their situation: that they are vampires. As much bildungsroman as vampire saga, this unusual tale presents vampirism as a condition that can be controlled using modern science (supplements and sunscreen). The presentation of vampires as a group within society, moving and shifting to escape human prejudice and notice for their excessively long lives and seemingly perpetual youth, is original and intriguing. The characterization is sound for the most part, although Ariella'srelationship with her mother is just too good to be true. Still this quibble is small in a generally atmospheric tale that is part surrealist dream, part On the Road, and features prose that is almost mesmerically beautiful at times. With a sequel in the works and an attractively mysterious cover, it will appeal to vampire fans, romance enthusiasts, and readers of serious fiction.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416534587
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication date: 4/8/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 560,692
  • Series: Ethical Vampire Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Susan Hubbard is the author of The Society of S and The Year of Disappearances, as well as two short story collections, Walking on Ice and Blue Money, for which she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She teaches at the University of Central Florida and lives with her husband in Orlando and Cape Canaveral.

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The Society of S

A Novel
By Susan Hubbard

Simon & Schuster

Copyright © 2007 Susan Hubbard
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9781416534570

Preface


On a cool spring night in Savannah, my mother is walking. Her clogs make sounds like horses' hooves against the cobblestone street. She passes among banks of azaleas in full bloom and live oak trees shrouded in Spanish moss, and she enters a green square bordered by a café.

My father is seated on a stool at a wrought-iron table. Two chessboards spread across the table, and my father has castled on one when he looks up, sees my mother, and drops a pawn, which falls against the tabletop and rolls onto the sidewalk.

My mother dips to pick up the chess piece and hands it back to him. She looks from him to the two other men sitting at the table. Their faces are expressionless. They're tall and thin, all three, but my father has dark green eyes that somehow seem familiar.

My father stretches out a hand and cups her chin. He looks into her pale blue eyes. "I know you," he says.

With his other hand he traces the shape of her face, passing twice over the widow's peak. Her hair is long and thick, russet brown, with small wisps that he tries to smooth away from her forehead.

The other men at the table fold their arms, waiting. My father has been playing both of them simultaneously.

My mother stares at my father's face -- dark hair falling awayfrom his forehead, straight dark eyebrows over those green eyes, lips thin but shaped in a cupid's bow. Her smile is shy, frightened.

He drops his hands, slides off the stool. They walk away together. The men at the table sigh, and clear the chessboards. Now they'll have to play each other.

"I'm going to see Professor Morton," my mother says.

"Where's his office?"

My mother waves her hand in the direction of the art college. He puts his hand on her shoulder, lightly, letting her lead.

"What's this? A bug in your hair?" he says suddenly, pulling at what seems to be an insect.

"A barrette." She takes the copper dragonfly from her hair and hands it to him. "It's a dragonfly. Not a bug."

He shakes his head, then smiles. He says, "Hold still," and carefully slides a lock of her hair through the dragonfly, then pins it behind her left ear.

They turn away from the college. They're holding hands now, walking down a steep cobblestone street. It's growing dark and chilly, yet they pause to sit on a cement wall.

My mother says, "This afternoon I sat at my window, watching the trees grow dark as the sun went down. I thought, I'm growing older. I have only so many days left to watch the trees darken. Someone could count them."

He kisses her. It's a brief kiss, a rough touching of lips. The second kiss lasts longer.

She shivers.

He bends to cover her face -- forehead, cheeks, nose, chin -- with small, quick brushes of his eyelashes. "Butterfly kisses," he says, "to keep you warm."

My mother looks away, amazed at herself. In a matter of minutes she has let so much happen, without hesitation or protest. And she isn't stopping it now. She wonders how old he thinks she is. She's sure she's older -- he looks about twenty-five, and she has recently turned thirty. She wonders when she should tell him that she's married to Professor Morton.

They stand up and walk on, down concrete steps leading toward the river. At the bottom of the steps is a closed cast-iron gate.

"I hate moments like this," my mother says. Her shoes can't climb gates.

My father climbs over the gate and opens it. "It wasn't locked," he says.

As she passes through, she has a sense of inevitability. She is moving toward something entirely new, yet predetermined. Without any effort at all, she feels years of unhappiness being erased.

They walk along the strand beside the river. Ahead they see the lights of the tourist shops, and as they reach them, he says, "Wait." She watches him go inside a shop that sells Irish imports, then loses sight of him through the door's wavy glass. He comes out carrying a soft wool shawl. He wraps it around her, and for the first time in years, she feels beautiful.

Will we marry? she wonders. But she doesn't need to ask it. They walk on, a couple already.

My father tells me this story, twice. I have questions. But I save them until he's finished for the second time.

"How did you know what she was thinking?" is my first question.

"Later she told me her thoughts," he says.

"What happened to Professor Morton?" I ask next. "Didn't he try to stop her from leaving him?"

I'm thirteen, but my father says I'm going on thirty. I have long dark hair and blue eyes. Except for the eyes, I take after my father.

"Professor Morton tried to keep your mother," my father says. "He tried threats. He tried force. He'd done it before, when she talked about leaving him. But this time she was in love, and she wasn't afraid. She packed up her things and moved out."

"Did she move in with you?"

"Not at first. No, she took an apartment downtown near Colonial Cemetery, an apartment that some people still say is haunted."

I look hard at him, but I'm not going to be distracted by the haunted apartment.

"Who won the chess game?" I ask.

His eyes open wider. "That's a very good question, Ariella," he says. "I wish I knew the answer."

My father usually knows the answer to everything.

"Could you tell she was older than you?" I ask.

He shrugs. "I didn't think about it. Age has never mattered much to me." He stands up, goes to the living room window, draws the heavy velvet curtains. "Time for you to sleep," he says.

I have a hundred more questions. But I nod, I don't object. Tonight he's told me more than ever before about my mother, whom I've never seen, and even more about himself.

Except for one thing -- the truth he doesn't want to tell, the truth I'll spend years trying to understand. The truth about who we really are.

Copyright © 2007 by Blue Garage Co.



Continues...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 27, 2008

    Not Worth It

    This book struck me at first as captivating and interesting. HOWEVER once i started reading I was soundly proven otherwise. It was boring, plotless and i cannot believe i was excited to read this book. You'd be better off spending your money elsewhere

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 20, 2008

    This book was surprisingly amazing!!!

    I'm not going to lie, i was looking for a new book and the cover caught my attention saying that anyfan of the twilight series would love this book. I..er my dad bought it and while is was in the car i was expecting something completely juicy like romance and vampire like mystery [twilight series stuff] but instead i read the back to learn it's a family type 'coming of age' story :[ instinctive impression. oh crap! But like I started to read the book and at first i'm like 'wow, i'm an idiot, why did i buy this' it's incredibly monotonous and ridgedly boring. But then it hit this turning point where I just couldn't put it down. It's strange to admit but this is the first book that truly instilled fear in me. I was scared to look out the window at night for days. People don't give this book enough credit it was actually REALLY good. I can't say i would read the ENTIRE thing over again cause it was the element of surprise that set the whole thing up, but i would definitely recommend this book to ANYONE. I loved it.

    4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    wonderful coming of age fantasy

    In Saratoga Falls, New York Ariella Montero lives with her father, a scientist who limits her time to near zero with outsiders. The only people she encounters besides her dad are his research assistant Dennis, housekeeper Mrs. McGarritt and at times her thirteen year old daughter Kathleen. --- However, now turning thirteen, Ari learns the truth behind her home schooling and her mother Sara who vanishes after the afterbirth. Her dad explains that he became a vampire just prior to marrying her mother. The teen learns that she has been kept on a unique diet and home away from her peers to keep her safe until the moment of reckoning for her, which is now. She must choose between the life of a vampire like her dad and that of a mortal like her mom. Ari cannot decide until she learns more about her mother so she begins a quest to find the elusive S. --- Though growing up with a single dad, Ari¿s vampire heritage plays a secondary role in this wonderful coming of age tale of a girl's struggles with the end of the innocence while dealing with adolescence and being a mixed breed offspring. Much of the tale is Ari searching for her mom as she tussles with the seeming estrangement between her parents and the apparent abandonment of her mom. The poignant Ari makes this a strong character study with obvious societal connotations. --- Harriet Klausner

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 31, 2008

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    OK not thrillig

    Glad this was a bargain book! The plot had some twists but very few. I kept reading because I thought something More/Big was going to happen, but it did not. The book is written with the main character who says she sees words in colors like purple etc, then she asks ...is it the same for you? Anyways its good for an hour or two of reading.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 17, 2008

    A Work of Detail

    The summary had me intrigued so I had to read the book. I personally am tired of all the Twilight hype and was trying to find another vampire book that was different. I did, The Society of S is in many ways better then a lot of vampire books I¿ve read. The only down side? It¿s slow going and very detailed which can make the book drag on forever at times. My suggestion, if you¿re looking for a fast action jump into the plot read, leave this book be. If you¿re willing to put in the effort and read the book for all it¿s integrity go ahead and take a bite.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2008

    Slow from the get go

    Okay, so I'm a HUGE Stephenie Meyer fan and in looking through the shelves of Barnes and Noble this book caught my eye. It said 'any Stephenie Meyer fan would love this book.' So, I bought it and read it. It was soooo slow all the way through except for the last 30 pages or so. I kept waiting for something to happen. Quite frankly I think the whole thing was dragged out an extra 100 pages than it needed to be. I did read the synopsis of the second book in the series and it sounds a little more interesting. I am going to read it. I'm hoping this book was a background story for a MUCH more invigorating series.

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  • Posted March 3, 2011

    simply awful

    Save your money. This book was shallow and boring. I kept hoping it would get better or get to some kind of plot point, but it never did. I think it is aimed for a very immature audience.

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  • Posted January 13, 2011

    Exciting!

    I got this book for Christmas, and finished reading it a couple of days ago. By far one of my new favorites and am really looking forward to reading the next two books that go along with this. Better than I expected, and if you love mystery, and fantasy this is a book for you.

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  • Posted January 12, 2011

    Great Read!

    Interesting and fun!

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  • Posted December 26, 2010

    Very much worth the time.

    Ms. Hubbard is a very creative author. Her plots and characters are unique. I find it very hard to put her books down at night when I need to get to sleep for work the next morning!

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  • Posted May 5, 2010

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    A book of 3 parts

    Written in first person narrative from Ariella's point of view, mostly in retrospect and diary format, starting as 13 year old with a HUGE dark family secret. Not only is the story told from her point of view but she takes on the persona of a third person narrator at times, giving insight into other peoples thoughts and feelings. It is sometimes difficult to understand this correctly as you constantly have to remember that she is only interpreting other peoples actions based on her own rather than having direct insight into their minds. I really enjoyed the way in which Ariella directly addresses the reader, it added a sense of involvement in the plot.

    The book is split into 3 different sections relating to the different phases of the story. The 1st part shows Ariella as a child, sheltered from the real world by her father. This was my favourite part, the start was dramatic and full of tension. The descriptions were deliciously sensory. The vocabulary is lovely and gives me the satisfaction of gaining knowledge via osmosis :) The plot unravels slowly like a loose thread you pull that keeps unravelling until you are able to snap it off. Intriguing plot teasers dropped throughout the narrative.

    The second part deals with Ariella's journey to find her mother and her developing awareness of different aspects of her personality. I couldn't fully grasp the changes in Ariella in this section and her actions didn't quite seem to fit with the picture I had already built up of her from the 1st section. I had to keep reminding myself that she is only supposed to be 13 at this point and couldn't quite weigh up her interactions and emotions with someone of that age. I adored the Poe quotes and the terrific literary analysis of Poe given within the narrative. Especially the use of italics to draw the readers eye to specific parts of the plot. I have always wanted to read Poe but am a bit concerned that it will frighten me, being of the squeamish variety and having a technicolor imagination :) There are also some very intriguing religious references adding another element to the story, all thoroughly researched and well developed points.

    The last section finds Ariella reunited with her mother. Bringing back the Ariella I had imagined in the 1st section. In some respects she appears older and wiser than her years and at others, she appears younger and more naive, probably a conflict that occurs to anyone at that age. A little bit of the nature versus nurture debate comes into force as we are left to wonder what sort of person Ariella would be if she had lived with her mother during her childhood. The changes within Ariella during each section gives the book a different feel, like 3 different stories unfolding to a single conclusion. I particularly liked the imagery used to describe the gardens and animals in this section, it really brought it to life for me. Some major plot twists occur at the end; we are left with resolution to some aspects and a big mystery to others. There is a particular description of a man, I think we can assume is evil, that I found chilling.

    On the whole, I am a bit torn with this one, I liked the general storyline but couldn't fully relate the story to a 13 year old. I think I am still going to have to read the next book just to find out if the mystery is solved :)

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  • Posted February 2, 2010

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    The Society of S

    This was a great read for me. A read that every teenager should read. Ari finds out that she is half-human and half-vampire and her world is turing upside down she she runs away to search for her mom and learns she is to a vampire now. But learns a whole lot more especially since she left on her own and had to sort of grow up a little. But a story about growing up finding out who you are and about vampires.

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  • Posted September 26, 2009

    Society of S

    This was an interesting book yet nothing comparable to the Twilight Saga.
    These vamps were more depiction of vampires (hunger for blood), some dark with evil intentions yet not all. It was okay yet the issue I didn't like at all about the book was the negativaty toward God and faith. It was all de-void of it to the point of being offensive. It leaves one without hope and the idea of any redemption for anyone. How sad is that?

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  • Posted September 13, 2009

    S is for silly

    This book is corney with a capital C. While it is true that I read the book because I was curious of the ending - otherwise it is a let down. Maybe this book would be better for younger girls as it is not gorey or sick in vampire terms.

    S is for silly - better to go read Twilight or watch an old Bela Lugosi movie.

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  • Posted August 18, 2009

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    Amazing!

    Ari is your typical average pre-teen girl. She lives with her dad and their house crew while her mom has disspeared, never to be seen again. Ari sson discovers shes a vampire and so is her dad. Her mom, she has no idea. She starts to question her dad of her life and mother. She gets the answers she needs to head out to locate her. Her journey in discovery includes love, lust, revenge, lies, and family. This book is a must read!

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  • Posted August 12, 2009

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    Suprisingly Really Good

    I got this book because the cover was mysteryious and it didn't tell what the plot was on the cover.(Plus it was on sale for only a dollar!) I read it in one day! The beginning was kind of slow but once I got past the first chapter or so I couldn't put it down. It had me reading under the covers with a flashlight! I loved the plot, it wasn't a traditional vampire book because the main focus wasn't that they were vampires. My only complaint was that things didn't end right between Michael and Ari. I can't wait to read the second book!


    Nothing like Twilight which I used to love but I am not getting rather tired of hearing about!

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  • Posted April 30, 2009

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    Similar to others, yet completely original

    I've read a few vampire books in my time, and some of them have had a similar plot of someone finding out they were a vampire and that they are parts of society. However, it was interesting to have the point of view of someone so young, as someone who didn't know and actually had the choice to be or not to be. Overall, great book, but it does share similar plot lines as others I have read.

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  • Posted April 1, 2009

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    Well written

    This book was good reading for me when i wanted to get out of my world and live through the life of someone else in unique situations.

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  • Posted February 23, 2009

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    Good read

    This book was better then i was expecting. It took me a chapter or two to really get into it but it was worth it. In it a young girl faces growing and and becoming a vampire. Along the way she loses friends and gains love one.

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  • Posted February 17, 2009

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    Very enjoyable - perhaps Hubbard's next books will be even better

    This book was a welcome addition to the vampire lore, and took the genre in an unexpected and interesting path. The first and last parts of the book are quite good, however, the middle lags.
    Its rather odd to discuss plot consistency with a fantasy book, however, I must say that in this case actions taken by the main character just didn't make sense or hold up.
    Still, a very good book and one which I do recommend.

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