I was very excited to see this…Vampires for the thinking teen

“Reading teen fiction these days makes me feel old. Not because I can’t identify with the hormone-induced angst that is high school (it’s all too near), but because I find myself thinking in sentences that begin with, “In my day … ”.
As in, “In my day, a book stood up on its own. You didn’t pay $22 for a book that’s a setup to a trilogy. And you didn’t have a whole whack of merchandise already packaged and waiting to be sold even as the book hits shelves!” I guess I yearn for the good old days when a book was more about story than stuff.
That said, Jessica Verday’s debut novel, The Hollow delivers on many of the promises that Stephanie Meyer’s inexplicably popular Twilight series failed to keep.”

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Vampires+thinking+teen/2551178/story.html#ixzz0fx99KQpT

Hi there. So last night I got into ……*DUN DUN DUNNNN*

The Vampire Diaries – L.J. Smith. I remember borrowing the books and trying to read them but I wasn’t into it. Probably because at that time I was tackling Twilight. So now. I own them all.

These are the old covers:

I was reading The Awakening – I couldn’t put it down. It was so good! I’ll probably finish it today.

These are the new covers:

The Awakening & The Struggle | The Fury & Dark Reunion |

The Return: Nightfall | The Return: Shadow Souls (2010)

I was also able to get Charlaine Harris` Southern Vampire Mysteries -

Dead Until Dark (May 2001) ^[2]

Living Dead in Dallas (March 2002) ^[3]

Club Dead (May 2003) ^[4]

Dead to the World (May 2004) ^[5]

Dead as a Doornail (May 2005) ^[10]

Definitely Dead (May 2006) ^[11]

• “Tacky” in My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006) ^[12]
  • (a Sookie-universe story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse)

All Together Dead (May 2007) ^[13]

• “Lucky” in Unusual Suspects ^[14]

From Dead to Worse (May 2008) ^[15]

• “Gift Wrap” in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008) ^[16]

Dead and Gone (May 2009) ^[17]

• A Touch of Dead (October 2009) ^[18]

Dead in the Family (May 2010) ^[19]

So I have lots of books to keep me company! Love it!

Luv, fin

Book Review

Growing up when I was probably in grade six (1996) or so I came across these books in the library. After years I couldn’t find them nor did I know the author. I was able to get my hands on both copies 2 years ago. I’m surprised no one has heard of these books so I’m going to give a small recap on these two books.

Vampire’s Love – Volume I – BLOOD CURSE Author: Janice Harrell

http://www.vampires.nu/pages/Books.cfm/ID/1978/PageID/22

http://www.vampyres.ca/

A teenage vampire is forced to resist her bloodthirsty nature when she falls in love with a mortal boy, and her growing feelings make her desperately seek to become human again. Rina is a beautiful mysterious and alone. She was sixteen when her mortal life was stolen – two hundred years ago. Now she walks the earth cursed. Undead. But that was before James…James knows there is something very strange about rina. He has never met anyone so mysterious – or so deadly but James has a girlfriend who’d do almost anything to keep Rina away from him. What Chelsea doesn’t know is that Rina is a vampire: her love for James is almost as powerful as her need for blood and Rina always gets what she needs…

Vampire’s Love – Volume II – BLOOD SPELL Author: Janice Harrell

Transformed into a vampire by her rival Rina, a vengeful Chelsea forms a pact with the evil Vlad, a centuries-old vampire who promises to reunite Chelsea with her boyfriend if she will deliver Rina to him.

Rina would have done anything to make James her own – even kill his girlfriend Chelsea. But, Rina has a powerful new challenger for James’ heart. A rival she created in a moment of rage. An enemy who’s sworn to destroy her. When Chelsea returns as a vampire, she wants revenge almost as much as she wants James back. That’s when Vlad, the evil vampire who transformed Rina two hundred ears ago, makes her an offer she can’t refuse: He’ll help her find James – in exchange for Rina. The tables have turned. And now Chelsea may be the one to get everything she wants..

On another note, I’m very happy about this Vampire craze that is taking the mass media / “pop culture” if you will – presently. I’ve always been fasinated with these types of stories and genre! I have more reviews and more to share about some of the books and shows about Vampires. Remember Vampire High ? HA it was on YTV sadly I own the episodes – which became a fail after some characters left the show. However thats for another review. So hope you guys can find these books – they’re hard to get your hands on. But, i’m sure you can find them online – amazon n’ such.

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Zebra – Kensington (Jan 31 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821776835
• ISBN-13: 978-0821776834
• Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.6 x 3.2 cm
• This book should be read by 18+ adults

This book is amazing! When I first started reading it I started to think of TRUEBLOO because of the setting and so on… you’ll see. However it got into its own story. If you pick it up you will see what I`m talking about. However I couldn`t put this book down, so much suspense and very well written. GO OUT AND GET IT!

This contemporary vampire romance may lack the violence, and intensity etc typical of the subgenre, but bestseller Ashley (After Sundown) still delivers an exciting plot and a heroine who can kick ass with the best of them. A killer is draining green-eyed redheads of their blood in the Midwestern town of Pear Blossom Creek, and 22-year-old Victoria Cavendish knows she should be leery of mysterious men like Antonio Battista, who orders food he never eats at the diner where she waitresses, then disappears into thin air. In fact, Antonio is a 600-year-old vampire. While an obsessive, yellow-eyed vampire stalks Vicki and a vampire hunter remains convinced Antonio’s the killer, the innocent smalltown girl and Antonio fall in love. Even if they can survive the danger, what will happen to their love? A ghost living in Antonio’s isolated Spanish castle provides additional paranormal flair, and a secondary romance between the vampire hunter ready to retire his stake and Vicki’s best friend round out the story.