The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause This book seems to be quite current; however I would say it more than likely happened in the 1990s. There are many facts to support my conclusion, such as their knowledge of Cancer, the type of cars they drive, public transportation, and descriptions of the buildings and shops in their town! The setting is important because Simon is from a different time. So the differences in their characteristics and ways are really what give this book an edge that attracted me! I also really don't think this story would have been as interesting if the characters lived in a different time. Silver Kiss could have been set in any mid-sized city in America. The story gives me the impression that the town they are in is not as small as Amboy, mainly because it has a huge hospital and a public bus. The reason this story is such a great book is the way Klause wrote it. He narrated the book using first-person point of view for both Simon and Zoë. This may seem confusing but it actually helped express the details. Using this technique Klause managed to tell two different stories in this book. At the beginning the book talks about Zoë's life and all her difficulties, then it tells about Simon's problems. But the best thing Klause did was to infuse these two stories into this book. It gave the two main characters more commonalities and helped show similarities in the main characters' personalities!