Vampires are monsters.

Well, the gates where thrown open and Legacy is off. I officially hit the publish button on the 17th of this month. I saw that a couple of people scope it up quickly, but I've yet to hear any feedback. I ordered several copies, but the manufacture still has it listed as 'being processed'. I was hoping to have them by this weekend so that I could get them to people that I know, but I don't think that that is going to happen. I think it may end up being the following weekend. If anyone is interested you can find the links to purchase it at my website, www.authorcvhunt.com.
I had a discussion the other day about Endlessly and how reviewers are like a strange double edged sword. Every vampire novel is different; different rules, different ethics, different story, ect. I think Bram Stoker would have had his stroke sooner had he read Twilight. Vampires were originally meant to be monsters.1mon·ster  noun  \ˈmän(t)-stər\Definition of MONSTER1 a : an animal or plant of abnormal form or structure b : one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character2 : a threatening force3 a : an animal of strange or terrifying shape b : one unusually large for its kind4 : something monstrous; especially : a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty5 : one that is highly successful
Lately vampires have become anything but this. Heaven forbid that current vampires would ever fall under definition number four. The vampires of my books are what I considered a hybrid monster. They are able to cope within society, but when it gets down to the nitty-gritty, they are still murders. They kill humans to survive… without remorse.
I don't mind a bad review, I think they help to toughen you up. What I don't care for is when I am left a one star review with no explanation. Why didn't you like it? Was it horribly written? Did you not like the story? Was it not your type of book? Two or three sentences would suffice.
Then again, sometimes I read a bad review and it's like hitting a paradox wall for me. One person stated that they didn't like how Verloren did not show remorse. (Sociopath, psychopath, monster... they are all the same, and none of them will show remorse.) Another person stated that the story was too unbelievable. (??? Am I the only person thinking, it's fiction.) Someone else made a comment about there being too many supernatural creatures. (I would think, or at least hope, that if there was a world where the supernatural did exist, that there would be a wide variety of them.) I think the one that was upsetting the most for me was, I had a reviewer tell me that they don't like writing bad reviews and refused to post a review.
These are all the reader's personal preferences and opinions, and we are all entitled to them. I would hate to live in a world where I was afraid to state my personal opinion. I particularly don't care for King's stories, and people think I'm crazy, but I could give you a list of reasons that I don't like his books. (I won't, because it's a long and boring list.)
I think some of these people stumbled on my book, and thought that they were getting another dose of modern day vampire, and were upset when they didn't get that. People have fallen away from what the real meaning of a vampire is. They are murdering monsters, not neck nibbling stud muffins. (Does anyone really use the words stud muffin?) I think Anne Rice may have gotten this one right; her vampires can't have sex, because their bodies are dead. If we eliminated the sex from the vampire book now days, would people still want to read them?

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