Good Vampire Books?

Question

I'm big into books about things like vampires some of my favorite vamp books are: The Silver Kiss, Sunshine, and Cirque Du Freak. Any reccommendations? And If you could list a short summary that would be helpful :)

Answer 1

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Bella Swan has bid her farewell to the sun and now is living with her father in Forks, Washington, a place of cold rainy days. She dreads the rain, the snow and the cold icy days. Everyone knows her at school and she is top gossip because her dad is the chief of the police. She makes friends easily and one day at lunch she sees a group of five shockingly beautiful pale students. They all look different, but the same. They look like the kind of people you saw in a scene from a movie or new hot magazine. The Cullens. All adopted. Everyone avoided them, and Bella had no idea why, they just didn't seem to fit in. One boy with bronze colored hair, one of the most dazing of the five suddenly takes a harsh disliking to Bella and she doesn't understand why. He doesn't even know her. Then one day, he is nice and polite like he didnt remember he hated her. He saves her life too. but it all happened so fast and she gets suspicious. He did so many impossible things when he saved her from getting run over by that van. Sh demanded explianations but they weren't given to her and they both went back to silence between them. One day Bella goes with her friends Jessica and Angela to help them pick out their outfits for the dance down in Port Angelos. Bella wasnt going because her clumsiness would just humiliate her. Down if Port Angelos she runs into some strangers that arent vey friendly on her way back from a no good book store. Suddenly Edward comes to the rescue and takes her to dinner. Her mind traced back to the conversation she had had with a boy named Jacob when she went to the beach. A vampire. that's what Edward was. Impossible but true. Their conversation was tentative, as Edward reveals the truth. Surprisingly it didn't matter to Bella, because she was in love with him, and vice versa. Edward takes her to places she would have never seen before and tells her that sleeping in coffins, is a myth, sunlight hurts them is a myth except it can hurt other people so they can never go into sunlight, and all that stuff you hear is a myth. But they do not eat and they do need blood though. the good vampires just hunt animals not human blood but when they see human blood they thirst for it. One day when Edward brings Bella to his house to meet the rest of his vampire family they start playing baseball and Bella will never be able to sit through a major league baseball game again. They have more speed than any car almost so they can run so fast! Some of them have powers. Edward has the power to read minds of people within 5 miles except he can not read Bella for some reason, Alice has the power to see the future but only after that person has made up their mind to do so, and jasper has the power to mess with peoples feelings, like make them feel better and that stuff. Alice predicted visitors and they turned up during the baseball game. Vampires. So many things happen and Bella gets put through a lot and you will have to see what happens to Bella once you read the book!

The Second book is New Moon and is almost better than thefirst.... ALMOST

Answer 2

I also loved Sunshine. Several of my favorites have already been suggested (LKH-Anita Blake series, Kenyon's Dark Hunters, and Nora Roberts). Others that I highly recommend are:

Kim Harrison's Dead Witch Walking series- While the main character is a witch, vampires play a big role in the book both as heroes and villians.

Mary Janice Davidson's Undead and Unwed series- If you like your vampire books to make you laugh so hard you have to put them down for a while.

Kelley Armstrong's Bitten series- While not primarily about vampires, her books do have vampires in them. So far, she has focused several books in a row on werewolves, then witches, and then ghosts. Great books by a great author and she is due to focus on the vampires soon, in my opinion.

Nancy Collins Sunglasses After Dark series- Not my absolute fave, but good enough for a vampire fix.

And I still always check to see if Robin McKinley has written a sequel to Sunshine...I guess if she was going to it would already be out, but I refuse to give up hope.

Hope my list helps.

Answer 3

Laurell Hamilton does have a series where the main character is Anita Blake. She's known as the Vampire Executioner, but her real job is to raise the dead (yes, zombies). It's an interesting world since vampires and other creatures have rights and are protected. She has to have an order or execution to kill a vamp. Her boyfriend is an Alpha werewolf, but he doesn't accept his animal side, and the Master of the City, Jean-Claude, decides he wants her for himself. There's always a mystery and some interesting characters. As the series moves along, it gets more sexual and becomes MOST of the storyline versus part of it.

I have also read Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series. These also have romance, but it's different. The Dark Hunters are soulless beings (traded it to exact revenge on someone) that are sworn to protect humans from Daimons (vampires) and other supernatural creatures. I've read about three and have enjoyed them quite a bit.

Answer 4

Twlight by Stephanie Meyers

A 17 year old girl named Bella moves to a new town and meets a guy named Edward...there's one thing Edward is a vampire. The two soon fall very deep in love. But Edward is immortal and Bella is mortal. Edward has too protect Bella against some very bad people and the question is can he?...

It's a GREAT book and one of my favorites.

The sequel is entitled New Moon

I hope I helped...Good Luck!!

Answer 5

Any book by Anne Rice," Interview with a Vampire, Lasher, Vampire Lestat, etc.
http://www.geocities.com/annericevampires/tvc_a.html

Answer 6

Here are some of the best vampire and/or werewolf works I have read: Dracula by Bram Stoker Mina by Marie Kiraly The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series about a witch who is a bounty hunter and works with a vampire and a pixie Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series about a werewolf radio talk show host Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series about a wizard private investigator in Chicago Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series about witches, werewolves, vampires, necromancers, ghosts, angels, and sorcerers. Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series Nora Roberts’s Circle Trilogy romance about vampires, witches, sorcerers, and shapeshifters: “Morrigan’s Cross”, “Dance of the Gods”, and “Valley of Silence” For Young Adults: Sweetblood by Pete Hautman Midnight's Choice by Kate Thompson, part of a trilogy that begins with “Switchers” and ends with “Wild Blood” Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde If you just want to kill some time and have some fun reverting back to childhood, check out The Bailey School Kids series by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. They have some humorous titles like "Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots," “Werewolves Don’t Go To Summer Camp,” and "Dracula Doesn't Rock and Roll". Others I have heard about: Amanda Ashley Maggie Shayne Katie MacAllister Sherilyn Kenyon Blood Books by Tanya Huff Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris 1. Dead Until Dark 2. Living Dead in Dallas 3. Club Dead 4. Dead to the World 5. Dead as a Doornail 6. Definitely Dead 7. All Together Dead the Dark series by Christine Feehan the Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike Brian Lumley New Moon and Twlight by Stephenie Meyer Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan Salem's Lot by Stephen King Sonja Blue series by Nancy A. Collins the Black Dagger Brotherhood series J.R. Ward Christopher Golden Nightwatch, Daywatch and Duskwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko the Neteru series by L.A. Banks Mary Janice Davidson's series. In order: 1. Undead and Unwed 2. Undead and Unemployed 3. Undead and Unappreciated 4. Undead and Unreturnable 5. Undead and Unpopular 6. Undead and Uneasy Got Fangs and Circus of the Darned by Katie Maxwell Blue Bloods and Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz Glass Houses and The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine L.J. Smith the Immortals After Dark series by Kresley Cole Sunshine by Robin McKinley Stephen Spruill Shannon Drake

Answer 7

I've read Sunshine too, great book =) I recommend Mercedes Lackey's Children of the Night (which I think is similar to Sunshine), and any books by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.

Answer 8

Entertainment, check out Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series

Interesting character study, try "I, Vampire" by Michael Romkey

Excellent pair of books with a literary history slant, "Slave of my Thirst" and "Lord of the Dead" by Tom Holland

All good for different reasons.

Answer 9

I love vampire books I read those and they were great!!


You should read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

>>>>It's about a girl named Isabella (bella) who moved into Forks Washington. Their she meets Edward a boy with 2 sisters & 2 brothers that aren't at all sociable. They fall in love even though he's a vampire and she know's it. He thirsts for her blood and she wants to feel his love but will his enemy's feel the same thirst for her and kill her and he might not be able to save her this time.<<<<<<


what do you think =) theirs one after Twilight called New Moon I loved it too check them out ♥

Answer 10

Interview with a vampire by Anne Rice is the best, trust me it will take you into another world.