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Vampires

Vam­pire Knight (vol.7,8) with story and art­work by Mat­suri Hino (Viz Media 2009) is about aris­to­cratic vam­pires secretly co-existing with humans in a pri­vate school cre­ated for the pur­pose of peace and under­stand­ing. Vam­pire Knight has beau­ti­ful vam­pires roman­ti­cized in a con­tin­u­ing story that is chock full of action, romance and drama. I love it.
Overview of the Vampire […]

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Dead to the World is the fourth book in the South­ern Vam­pire mys­tery series set in Bön Temps, Lou­siana and fea­tur­ing Sookie Stack­house. She works as a bar­maid at Merlotte’s and is gifted (or cursed) with telepa­thy. Ever since she hooked up with vam­pire, Bill Comp­ton, life has ceased to be dull.

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Bone Crossed (2009) by Patri­cia Briggs is the fourth book in the Mercy Thomp­son series. Were­wolves, fae, vam­pires and other hid­den crea­tures live among humans or so says Mercy, the nar­ra­tor of this series. By the way, I’ll try not to spoil it for you if you haven’t started this series yet.
Mercy is a shape shifter or […]

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I have refrained from watch­ing HBO’s True Blood, the Sookie Stack­house series that was adapted to tele­vi­sion by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and directly inspired by the nov­els writ­ten by Char­laine Har­ris because I have not fin­ish read­ing the series yet. How­ever, my mother and sis­ter are addicted to the show.
As for the TV show, […]

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I have yet to behold the won­der that is Neil Gaiman. I’ve heard through word of mouth how good he is but I have yet to read any of his books. How­ever, I do own a few. CNN did a inter­view with the author about his new book, Grave­yard, which is inspired by Kipling’s The Jun­gle Book. Instead of […]

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Club Dead (2003) finds Sookie Stack­house and her vam­pire boyfriend, Bill Comp­ton, arriv­ing at a cross­roads in their rela­tion­ship. Remem­ber­ing all that they’ve been through in the pre­vi­ous two books, it comes as no sur­prise but I am a lit­tle dis­ap­pointed that things dis­solved so quickly in their rela­tion­ship.
Twenty-six year old Sookie Stack­house lives in a small, rural town, […]

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Blood Alone by Masayuki Takano, vol­ume #4 in an ongo­ing series, rated for Older Teens (+13 and up), pub­lished by Infin­ity Stu­dios, Feb 2008 release, $10.95 US, that is cur­rently on back order at Ama​zon​.com but my local book­store had four copies on the shelf.
This is a series I’ve been avidly fol­low­ing. It’s a story about a young […]

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The Soci­ety of S by Susan Hub­bard reads like a mod­ern day vam­pire story and a com­ing of age story with 13 year-old Ariella Mon­tero nar­rat­ing. Is there such a thing as a lit­er­ary vam­pire novel? Ms. Hub­bard cer­tainly writes her tale in a schol­arly fash­ion but her vam­pire tale really doesn’t add any­thing “new” to a genre sat­u­rated with vampire […]

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Liv­ing Dead in Dal­las by Char­laine Har­ris, copy­right 2002, pub­lished by Ace, is the sec­ond book in her pop­u­lar South­ern Vam­pire series. It is avail­able in paper­back and in dig­i­tal for­mat of your choice. I might pos­si­bly be the last per­son on earth to not have read these books but I plan to rec­tify that.
The story cen­ters around […]

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REVIEW: Mid­night Ris­ing by Lara Adrian, copy­right March 2008, pub­lished by Dell. Mid­night Ris­ing is the fourth book in Ms. Adrian’s Mid­night Breed vam­pire series set in Boston, New York. Mid­night Ris­ing is avail­able in paper­back and ebook at your favorite retailer.
The vam­pire nation has been liv­ing secretly among humankind since the mid­dle ages. […]

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I am some­what of a new manga reader hav­ing dis­cov­ered this genre a lit­tle more than a year ago. Just like my other genre books, I am ded­i­cated to read­ing what I’ve bought. Some titles will be new, some titles not. Every Mon­day I will be high­light­ing manga or graphic nov­els that I have read from my TBR pile. Hope­fully, you’ll […]

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Mid­night Awak­en­ing by Lara Adrian is book #3 in her Mid­night Breed series, pub­lished 2007 by Dell. It is avail­able in paper­back and ebook at your favorite retailer. Despite the fact that I am essen­tially all para­nor­maled out — I bought this book because a friend of mine loved it.
In the world of vam­pires who coex­ist with humankind, […]

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Dead Until Dark (South­ern Vam­pire Mys­ter­ies, No. 1) by Char­laine Har­ris, pub­lished in 2001, is the first book in the South­ern Vam­pire mys­tery series. Sookie Stack­house, a bar­maid from Bön Temps, Louisiana, nar­rates the story.
Sookie has a gift: she can read minds. She con­sid­ers her telepa­thy a dis­abil­ity because many of the towns­peo­ple con­sider her […]

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Anne Rice Says “One More Book” For Lestat

by Avid Reader on February 24, 2008

in Avid Musings

Fans should be happy to hear that Anne Rice will give Lestat “one more book.” I’ve only read Inter­view With Vam­pire and remem­ber try­ing to read the next book in the series but Anne Rice is just too wordy for me. Sup­pos­edly she aban­doned her vam­pires for bib­li­cal fic­tion but she decided to res­ur­rect Lestat […]

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30 Days of Night, story by Steve Niles and illus­trated by Ben Tem­ple­smith, pub­lished Decem­ber 2004 by IDW Pub­lish­ing. This graphic novel is a straight up hor­ror story. You have a secluded town with more than 400 res­i­dents liv­ing in sub-zero weather where the sun doesn’t rise for 30 days. Wel­come to Bar­row, Alaska which turns out […]

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