What are some things that irk you when you read vampire novels. What do you like in them. A little feedback please. (Please don't post if you're not going to answer the question.)
2006-07-30 21:38:06 · 16 answers · asked by Ryoko 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I would avoid too much explicated sexual content. A little is okay if you are shooting for a more mature audience. Just be careful to avoid becoming another Laurell K. Hamilton. She used to be a wonderful writer. She used to have meaty plots, engaging characters, with a balanced sexual storyline. However, she has ruined that because her books have become pure smut. Anne Rice has gone for deeper sexual scenes but she did not sacrifice plot to have that sexuality. I would suggest that you have a strong plot before anything else.
2006-07-30 21:51:17 · answer #1 · answered by Rose 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should probably avoid garlic. However,I would be quite intrigued to read a vampire novel that incorporated the philosophy of reincarnation. These story-lines always assume a one-life scenario, with the vampire living eternally unless dispatched with a pointed stake. Would a previous-life vampire re-incarnate with unresolved issues, for example?
2006-07-30 23:40:05 · answer #2 · answered by herbie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always loved a good vampire story. Anything goes. The stories that interest me the most are the ones with many characters. I love it when everyone in the book has problems of their own and somehow it all meshes in the end. If I'm going to pay good money for a book, I want a nice fat book and when I come to the end of it, I want to ask myself, "Is this all? Is there no more?"
2006-08-01 17:38:48 · answer #3 · answered by Call Me Babs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should make the novel as unique as you can. Read lots of vampire books and don't do anything in them. I noticed that vampires can all do the same things, but who decided this? Give your vampires something special.
2006-07-31 01:00:13 · answer #4 · answered by Steph 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Avoid the cliches. Create your own vampires. No need to have them turn into bats, maybe be mosquitos instead, they suck blood more than bats do.. Create something new, something different. If you are going to throw some erotica into it, don't go overboard, the story needs to have a good plot, not just be a soap opera with a vampire in it.
2006-07-31 13:19:54 · answer #5 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I certainly have a narrative, and it has vampires in it, yet they do no longer look to be the main considerable concentration. they'd circulate out interior the sunlight for approximately 2 hours yet then their epidermis starts burning, so they'd desire to circulate back interior, or a minimum of interior the colour for approximately, 5-ten hours, based how long you have been a vampire. there is likewise classic covens which could turn you, which inform you the previous of vampires, and belongings you will desire to look out for. And there are vampire slayers (twist: vampire slayer gets became right into a vampire so he can discover the lady that he loves (who isn't human(no longer have been wolf the two, being which could generate acid from her palms(there are human beings like her which could do an identical for water, hearth, electricity, timber, magma and a pandemic substance which could substitute issues into different issues(i in my view needed to do as many parenthesis interior parenthesis as i ought to ha ha))))) Oh yeah, as for the lady, she has a school for human beings which could generate stuff from her palms, the place as there is yet another college some miles away for have been-cats, have been wolfs, vampires, sorcerers, fallen angels, oftentimes magical creatures. yet i haven't gotten to that area interior the story, that's only all planned.
2016-12-10 18:42:08 · answer #6 · answered by andie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the European vampire has been overdone.
Perhaps do some research on vampires from other countries or something that is similar to vampires like succubi.
Vampire Princess Miyu is my favorite, though it is a cartoon, not a book.
2006-07-31 05:24:28 · answer #7 · answered by germaine_87313 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read so many! In every book, the characteristics of the vampire are different. I don't mind that at all.
What does bother me is when they don't have any superpowers - like Cassandra in Kelley Armstrong's Stolen. Or if they're too weak, like Kitty in Kitty and the Midnight Hour (not a vampire book - she's a werewolf, but they started her out too subservient.)
In general, I like my vamp books to have a romantic theme, so I guess you could say I wouldn't like one who couldn't "get it up" or who had no sex appeal.
2006-07-31 09:49:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Explore the moral dilemma, i.e. if one becomes a vampire as a result of being bitten by a vampire, how can he/she be responsible for the evils of vampirism when free will was not involved in the transformation?
2006-07-31 05:40:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't do a vampire novel. There's gotta something that get you little more inspired about. Something that almost bring tears to your eyes.
2006-07-30 23:39:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋