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The Allure Of Books With Bite
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Though I think that might be more properly suburban fantasy.
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I will never understand her continued appeal.
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Have you read Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series? She's a coyote shapeshifter, but gets involved with a werewolf pack. There are 4 books now, and I LOVE them. Mercy is a wonderful character. Briggs has another series started that's set in the same world about a female werewolf, but I haven't picked it up yet.
I also liked Blood and Chocolate, a YA novel about a girl werewolf, although the relationship dynamics could be seen as questionable.
I highly recommend Lonely Werewolf Girl, a fat book about a sprawling Scottish werewolf family. From the Amazon review: "The MacRinnalch clan of Scottish werewolves is at war with itself. Attacked by his 17-year-old daughter, Kalix, the thane has succumbed, leaving the succession in question. Neither eldest son Sarapen nor younger, cross-dressing scion Markus have enough votes in the werewolves' Great Council to become thane, and the late thane's mother offers her vote to whomever brings her Kalix's heart. Kalix, despondent over losing her lover to exile, is on the verge of suicide before either bounty hunters or the secret society that hunts werewolves finds her. After she's rescued by college students Moonglow and Daniel, things take a curious turn to, among other things, her sister Thrix, a werewolf enchantress and couturier for fashion-obsessed fire-elemental warrior queen Malveria. This complex romp features scores of characters, multiple races, enchanting fashion trappings, business, family dynamics, music, sex, enduring love, romance, business, eating disorders, drug addiction, back-alley fights, epic battles, politics, and, most prominently, the contrary nature of werewolves, not to mention 236 (!) chapters. And it's so compelling you don't want to it end."
And I didn't! Loved it.
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I'm reading the House of Night books by P.C. and Kristin Cast, and they're phenomenal. The vamps in their world are very different than anything I've ever come across, which makes it really interesting to read.
And it's not about vampires, but I think it would fit into the paranormal romance genre... Evermore by Alyson Noel (Book 1 in The Immortals series) was great. I read the entire thing in one day and couldn't put it down.
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i sympathize with today's twi-teens, but it's a little odd to me. part of the reason vampires were attractive to me as a friendless dork was because they were outsiders, too. what do the popular girls see in vampires?
i guess the "twilight" vampires are a little different, though, huh? lestat was hot because he was a badass and an unrepentant killer -- but one with a conscience. edward cullen? so drippy and moody and blah. but SO IN LOVE, right?
gag.
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Or, realistically, he'd take him under his wing and then bash him incessantly like he does with Louis.
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And why, oh why, does the herione of a vamp story always have to so flawed? If Monsieur Sexy Vamp is going to decide to get romantically involved after 100's of years, why would he choose a painfully average bitchy teenager, a bounty hunter with penis envy, or a dingbat waitress? How about a fictional Angelina Jolie?
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Kim Harrison
Patricia Briggs
Tanya Huff
Charlaine Harris (Southern Vampires AND Harper Connelly series)
Mercedes Lackey's Burning Water, Jinx High, and Children of the Night.
I know there's more on my shelves but this is what stands out.
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@Ipomoea is a joyful girl: I just remembered another one:
Yasmine Galenorn-- definitely urban fantasy/romance (well, hot sexytimes) series about three sisters in an alternate-present Seattle-- one's a vampire, one's a witch, and one's a shapeshifter. Their money situation and clothing is a little ridiculous, but they're fast-paced and good beach reading.
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As to other stuff - I don't really go a bundle on vampire romances but I do have a soft spot for Kelley Armstrong - who isn't really a vampire writer (more werewolves and witches and er other embarrassing to admit stuff like that) but who has a nice touch and fun stories if you can't be bothered to think.
Susan Hubbard's Society of S was an interesting enough take on the coming of age vampire novel - i had to review it recently and thought it was a cut above the normal stuff in this genre.
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Not always, more often then not there is a homoerotic element to the vampire/super natural being. This is a tradition dating back to Stoker's Dracula declaring, "He is mine" to his harem of female vampires.
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