Laurel Richards's Blog - Posts Tagged "vampires"

In the first post of this blog series, I mentioned the reason behind writing it. I know what it’s like heading over to Amazon or B&N and scrolling through page after page of books looking for something new to read. The smaller retailers are disappearing, making it harder and harder to browse. I offer up my own book recommendations based on a certain genre and tone.

As those who are familiar with my Elementals series and my werewolf romance Wild Side know, I’m a big fan of paranormal romance. The very first paranormal novels to hook my attention, though, were those about vampires. Some authors have taken vampires into lighter and more humorous directions, but for this post, I’m going to stick with more serious fanged favorites.


Books I Recommend:


Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles — in my opinion, you can’t truly say you’re a vampire fan if you haven’t read at least a few books in this series


J.R. Ward’s Blackdagger Brotherhood series — the word “badass” comes to mind, since this series is full of aggressive vampires, action, and hot love scenes


Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series — I love the Wroth brothers, along with just about every other supernatural character in this series


Lara Adrian’s Midnight Breed series — plenty of edgy and an interesting take on vampire origins


Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter series — I enjoy the mythology mixed in


Angela Knight’s Mageverse series — King Arthur and vampires? Sign me up!


Christine Feehan’s Dark/Carpathian series — has both good Carpathians and the nasty vampires they can turn into


Allie Ritch’s Vampire Territory series — contemporary (but with an alternate history), and the books have plenty of action and spicy love scenes


Jennifer Turner’s Darkness Within series — edgy and original


Jessica Sorenson’s Darkness Falls


Melissa R. Smith’s Six hours to Sunrise


Jacquelyn Frank’s Drink of Me


Carissa Broadbent’s The Serpent and the Wings of Night


Previous Posts:

Quick Book Browsing: Sci-Fi Romance (or help, I’m being chased by an alien/monster/robot!)

Quick Book Browsing: Werewolf Romance

Quick Book Browsing: Psychics and Sci-Fi Romance

Quick Book Browsing: Fantasy

Quick Book Browsing: Paranormal Romance

Quick Book Browsing: Comedy and Mystery

Not every vampire book has to be dark or edgy. For those times when you want something lighter or even humorous, there are now a lot of vampire books out there in a..ha, ha...lighter vein.


Books I Recommend:


Fred Saberhagen’s The Dracula Tapes and the rest of the Dracula series —such a droll sense of humor in these books


Kathy Love’s Fangs for the Memories and the rest of the Young Brothers series — definitely made me laugh


MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead and Unwed and Undead and Unemployed — the rest of the series lost me, but I loved these


Nina Bangs’s My Wicked Vampire and the rest of the Castle of Dark Dreams series — ridiculous but entertaining


Kerrelyn Sparks’s How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire and the Love at Stake series — these books always make me laugh


Movies I Recommend:

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), starring Leslie Nielsen

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Love at First Bite (1979), starring George Hamilton




Previous Posts:

Quick Book Browsing: Vampire Romance with Bite

Quick Book Browsing: Sci-Fi Romance (or help, I’m being chased by an alien/monster/robot!)

Quick Book Browsing: Werewolf Romance

Quick Book Browsing: Psychics and Sci-Fi Romance

Quick Book Browsing: Fantasy

Quick Book Browsing: Paranormal Romance

Quick Book Browsing: Comedy and Mystery

For those of you who might have missed it, check out my blog series on book recommendations. I share some of my favorite books in Sci-Fi Romance, Fantasy, Cozy Mystery, and more.

Sci-Fi Romance
Sci-Fi Romance (or help, I’m being chased by an alien/monster/robot!)
Psychics and Sci-Fi Romance

Fantasy

Comedy and Mystery

Paranormal Romance
Shifters and Shifter Romance
Werewolf Romance
Dragon Shifters

The Lighter Side of Vampires (though not the sunny side)
Vampire Romance with Bite

Historical Romance