vampire advice wanted

[bunny_hops]

House of night and also Vampire Diaries! love em both just like Twilight... now i'm off to research true blood!

i love the true blood books
depending on how fat you like your books,ive seen 3 in 1 today at waterstones and i think it was part of their offers

i got my waterstone mag today

 

[LucyLou73]

I would have to add my vote for Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series too. True once the books get explicit it can wear a bit thin but the characters are great and once the story gets going it's nail biting stuff!

 

[Legomom]

The Anita Blake books are really good but definitely a bit fruity! But not in a really cheesy porn sort of way! Anne rice is awesome! I love lestat (one of her vamps) and the vampire diary books are way better than the series but more twilighty. Brian lumley does a really really good vampire series stroke scifi but it's really scary!! Can't remember the spelling but it's the wamphry or something! Google!

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[bunny_hops]

The Anita Blake books are really good but definitely a bit fruity! But not in a really cheesy porn sort of way! Anne rice is awesome! I love lestat (one of her vamps) and the vampire diary books are way better than the series but more twilighty. Brian lumley does a really really good vampire series stroke scifi but it's really scary!! Can't remember the spelling but it's the wamphry or something! Google!

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I read the First Vampire diaries, which i thought i was good, then i thought they seemed to go down hill from there. The last two books i didn't bother reading as i was just skimming through the third. I much prefer the tv series

I remember those Brian Lumley, Necroscope series, i has three or four books but never read them, i gave them away years ago.. I've ever read the first Anne Rice, maybe i should re read them at some point.

 

[MrsBurgundy]

If you don't mind things getting a bit steamy now and then, i would heartily recommend J.R Wards Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
I, personally, thoroughly enjoy them for what they are, but i know alot of people aren't impressed, so guess they're like Marmite - either love em or hate em!!!

I also love Twilight, and True Blood, and Vampire Diaries, so i'm going to order/search for the Anita Blake books!! Thanks guys! xxxx

 

[CharlieDelta]

I love the Black Dagger Brotherhood books! I have the full series so far and can't wait for the next book. Def worth a read

 

[Harriet101]

I love True Blood - how do the sookie stackhouse books comapre? And can we just have a poll on who is the best looking in true blood? I must admit to feeling strangely drawn to sam. Jason stackhouse is just too funny!

 

[bunny_hops]

I love True Blood - how do the sookie stackhouse books comapre? And can we just have a poll on who is the best looking in true blood? I must admit to feeling strangely drawn to sam. Jason stackhouse is just too funny!

The novels are very different to the show, I don't want to ruin it for you though

Jason is hilarious and I also find the detective funny too...what's his name?..I think the accent helps too.

I'm in love with Eric, he's mine ya know

 

[Gemstone1981]

I'm a big old fan of vampire books, having worked my way through all of the Anne Rice vampire chronicles, the twighlight saga and the Southern Vampire Mysteries (True Blood) to name but a few. I can whole heartedly recommend Anno Dracula and Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman - who is the head of the Dracula society, Anno has recently been re-released so is easy to get hold of....

 

[lacoffinqueen]

Anne Rice is the best vampire author in my opinion.
I read the twilight saga but find it far too soppy, I like vampires that rip throats not chew on bears.
I've read the morganville vamps up to book 8 not as soppy as twilight.
Sookie stackhouse goes up a bit but will never reach anne rice's ability.
Also bram stokers dracula is a must for a vampire collection, salems lot by stephen king

Anita blake is risque but if you can get past the continuous sex scenes they do have some good stories

 

[Gemstone1981]

Anne Rice is the best vampire author in my opinion.
I read the twilight saga but find it far too soppy, I like vampires that rip throats not chew on bears.

AMEN to that!!!! Although I sometimes find Anne Rice's vampires a little soppy - Now Poppy Z Brite's take on vampires in Lost Souls is very cool...... as is the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley.

I've never read Anita Blake but may have to pick up a copy soon.

 

[lacoffinqueen]

Just be prepared for the sex scenes with anita blake. I only read a couple so far. Anne rice's vampires get soppier as the chronicles go along. The vampires of the first few are different to those later books. It all gets soppier after Memnoch the Devil, though marius's story was pretty good

 

[giantrobot]

I'd recommend the Brian Lumley books too. They are pretty visceral but great stories. They're based around a character who develops a psychic link with the dead which allows him to learn all kinds of skills (hence the name 'Necroscope'). Best read in order though.

 

[Gemstone1981]

lacoffinqueen, I think I have to agree with you there, after Queen of the Damned it was just....meh with Anne Rice.... and I don't think it picked up until Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm was almost like the stories of old and I loved the tie in with the Mayfair Witches... personally I can't wait to see if she continues from there .... I think if I can handled the half porno style of true blood and anything Poppy Z Brite writes then I think Anita Blake might be ok (seriously Poppy is almost all filth).

giantrobot - I have copies of the first two necroscope, but I'm having trouble tracking down 3 onwards, I know they went out of print a while ago and that they have been slowly coming back out - so I wait for the day that I can finally sit down and read the whole lot one by one (fingers crossed I'll get there sooner than later - I understand I'm missing one hell of a story!

 

[suitsme]

I am a new convert to the twilight saga...I watched the films 1st and I have recently just read all 4 books (in a week!) and they are far better than the films and explain so much more.

I totally agree! The books are far better than the movies!!! Well worth reading

 

[nixi2011]

I'd def recommend the House of Night series - I've read all the true blood ones too, the books don't really seem to match the series but still a really good read. I have read the twilight saga loads - can't wait for the next film now.

Happy Reading x

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[xxeyesonfirexx]

I would def recommend house of night series, morganville vampires, not much choice out there u started reading the immortals series by Alyson Noel and Lauren kates series about fallen angels

 

[jessicacaca]

Ooh, just discovered this thread.
I loved the True Blood books, very easy to read and not too complicated but entertaining.
I am a full convert to the Twilight series too after refusing to buy into it for ages (I hate to jump on a bandwagon), and loved them. Books are so much better than the films but I am very interested to see what they have done with Breaking Dawn.
Sorry to jump on your conversation.... xx

 

[dd82]

Total twilight fan read all the books about five times , I just saw the trailer for the new film can't wait

 

[Donzy84]

If u don't mind books being a bit teenagery I really enjoyed the need pixies books by carrie jones I think.

I wasn't a fan of the Lauren Kate angel ones, discovery of witches or vamp diarys felt like authors kept making up new things everytime they hit a wall.

If u just like supernatural ones the inheritance series is good (eragon is the first) about a dragon rider). X

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