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Favorite Vampire Book
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Jan 02, 2008 02:05PM

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I think my favorite vampire novel would have 'The Silver Kiss'. Maybe it is because I read it so many time that I just can get over the fact how it ended. Ugh...it's kind of a young adult book, I know, but I still like.
I also have mixed feels about the Anita Blake series. I'm still working on reading those...

Anne Rice was rather nice with her humanlike vampires when I discovered her. Interview with the Vampire, Pandora and Armand are probably my absolute favorites.
I also kind of liked Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls, but there was something a bit off in it too.
So far I've also found Freda Warrington rather good but not superb.

Anno-Dracula by Kim Newman
The Book of Common Dread by Brent Monahan
The Golden by Lucius Shepard
Suckers by Anne Billson
The Sonja Blue books by Nancy A. Collins are seriously kick-ass, and Mick Farren's Renquist Quartet (starts with The Time of Feasting) is good but the last book is a little lame.
And this is only the beginning....


Oops, and how could I forget Stephen King's Salem's Lot!

I have recently decided that I like the more light-hearted vamp stories like the Sookie series and the Undead series by MaryJanice Davidson. That's not to say I don't like the other more serious, scary, sensual vamp stories because I definitely do. Maybe I just need more light-hearted laughs in my life right now. :)
yea. I just love Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer and most other gothic romance writers, except for those select few who make the whole vampire romance into the girl meets guy, fall in love, and BAM! Book's over type of books. =[[






Of course, I cut my teeth on Anne Rice. I loved the Queen of the Damned for the history of the orgiginal vampires. The way she wove ancient Egypt and the vampire myth together was so compelling!



Any fans of the original Dracula might want to try reading Kate Cary's Bloodline series. It's a young adult series that picks up where Dracula leaves off, written in a similar style (letters & diary entries). So far there are two books in the series.









I thought The Historian was good, but a bit slow. Of course, being a librarian, I loved the idea behind the book and I felt that the author made it all very believable.
Fangland and Necroscope sound good, I'll have to check them out.
Kasie--I also like werewolf novels (I'm a Jacob fan)! Have you read Blood and Chocolate? It reminds me a lot of Twilight but just about werewolves. Has anyone read The Wolfen by Whitley Schreiber? I wasn't too into the movie based on it, but I've read other books by him and liked them. Just not sure. Most werewolf books are really cheesy (The Howling? Yeah). And I couldn't get into the werewolf books written by Anne Rice's sister.










Jean Claude, the bad boy you just have to love

Only thing I like a little better about BDB is you see more of all the characters perspectives, in Night Huntress the story is told through the main character. Both are excellent!

