Down the Rabbit Hole" (chapter 37) is most likely a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Jamie begins to train as a vampire hunter, learning the history and practicing with weapons, while also uncovering some secrets of the Department, secrets that some would kill to keep hidden.

That's an automatic fail for me--I need to give a shit about this person I'm supposed to be rooting for. Jamie is determined to rescue his mother, even if his only allies are a hulking green monster and an imprisoned vampire girl.With Dracula slowly rising, the supernatural departments all over the world have got their hands full. Sometimes great books are born from such simple questions, and Department 19 is one of these as it follows the assumption that if Dracula was real, then so were Van Helsing, Harker, Holmwood et al.

I have been sitting on this review for months, desperately wanting to tell the world about this book. His debut novel was Department 19, the first in a five book series which was a bestseller in the UK and translated into more than a dozen languages. So if you're a gawky boy who gets picked on by bullies, you might enjoy living vicariously through this boy who learns at 16 that he comes from a long line of ass-kicking vampire hunters.The story begins with a teenager named Jamie Carpenter who witnesses the murder of her father, two years after that event, his mother is kidnapped and vampire Alexandru attempted to kill Jamie but Jamie rescued Frankenstein who is a member of the Department 19. Sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter’s life was violently upended when he was brought into Department 19, a classified government agency of vampire hunters that was formed to deal with a little problem . As this wikia was abandoned by its founder on June 28, 2012 and was only adopted around three years later on June 12, 2015, a lot of information is lacking on this wikia.