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Best Vampire Novels
What is this fascination that people have with the undead? From Mummies, to Zombies, to Vampires, there seem to be a never ending production of movies and books about them.
Currently I have a fixation for anything vampire, be it books, movies or games. Usually I prefer to watch horror movies rather than read about them, so it was not until I was absolutely bored that I picked up the “Twilight Novels” (author Stephanie Meyers) to read. Now keep in mind, I read the Twilight Saga after the movie came out, so prior to reading the books I had not even seen the movie. I could not understand the phenomenon it created. Sure, I had seen the trailers and endless media coverage of the movie but I just chalked it up to being another teeny bopper movie. It was not until reading the books that I understood what the whole hype was about. This is going to make me cringe a bit (because I would hate to be among the many teenage crazed fans) but after reading those books I too became a fan. I must say it is one of the best novels I have read so far.
The first book gave entrance to a brilliant beginning. The idea of a human girl falling in love with a vampire was a tell tale story of two opposites coming together for love despite their differences and the trials that accompany such a union. I think that is what I really liked about those books. It had everything, romance, humor, drama and suspense all the ingredients for a well written book. What I did not like about the Saga was the second book, New Moon. Do not get me wrong it was not a bad book. I just did not like how Bella reacted to Edward leaving her. The fact that she was in a zombie like state at first then jumping off of cliffs sort of screamed to me suicide. It just seemed pathetic. Other than that part of the book, I loved the rest.
Around the same time that twilight came out, the HBO series “True Blood” came out. Just like Twilight the movie, True Blood also originated from a series of books, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels (author Charlaine Harris). It even has a similar plot to Twilight, you know, girl meets vampire, girl falls in love with vampire and so on. The nice twist about this story is that the girl (Sookie) is a telepath who can read people’s mind except for vampires and the vampires roam free among people. While Twilight had a more teenage audience, the Sookie Stackhouse books is more adult oriented. The books are not as well written as the previous book I talked about but it does have a good story base and the television series is even better.