forgive my absents! but prepare for more! my computer was thrown out and this is from my brother’s iphone and i will post from that whenever i can but i should be back full time at most in the next week! Forgive me??
Shout out!
I’d like to give a shout out to Danielle Lisa! Her Evernight videos are truely fantastic and I’d like to thank her sooo much for letting me use them and i hope you enjoy them as much as i did! For more of her video check out her youtube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsByDanielleLisa
Claudia Gray!
Guys below i just posted the Top 10 Vampire authors for 2009! And guess what?!?! Claudia Gray has made it to number six! Thats an amazing achievment considering how many authors there are now-a-days in the young Vampire section! haha
Top 10 Vampire Authors
Vampirebookclub.net solicited a list of Top 10 Vampire Authors from their readers and came up with an intriguing list. 1. STEPHENIE MEYER
You thought we were nuts for leaving the woman who brought us Twilight off the list. She definitely created a new type of vampire that spurred discussion among vampire fans, and introduced many new readers to genre fiction.
2. RACHEL CAINE
Caine’s cheeky Morganville Vampires series is fun and refreshing. The first book, Glass Houses, is a bit heavy on the world-building, but stick with it. As we said in our review of Glass Houses/Dead Girls Dance: “Rachel Caine has created characters we can root for and a broad world in which the opportunities for plot points are vast.”
You thought we were nuts for leaving the woman who brought us Twilight off the list. She definitely created a new type of vampire that spurred discussion among vampire fans, and introduced many new readers to genre fiction.
2. RACHEL CAINE
Caine’s cheeky Morganville Vampires series is fun and refreshing. The first book, Glass Houses, is a bit heavy on the world-building, but stick with it. As we said in our review of Glass Houses/Dead Girls Dance: “Rachel Caine has created characters we can root for and a broad world in which the opportunities for plot points are vast.”
3. L.J. SMITH
We’re not on the L.J. Smith bandwagon, so instead we’re offering up the synopsis for the first Vampire Diaries novel. (We do love the TV show, though, especially the deliciously wicked Ian Somerhalder.)
4. SHERRILYN KENYON
The Dark Hunter series is one of those that is perpetually on our to be read list. If this many of you suggest it, though, we’re moving it up. Expect a review of the first title, Fantasy Lover, in the near future.
Additionally, her new young adult series Chronicles of Nick keeps drawing our attention. We’ll see about moving its first title, Infinity, up the TBR list as well.
5. JIM BUTCHER
Crime solving. Magic. Tons of paranormal goodness. Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, which is now on book 12, is gritty and engaging. We’re going to start posting reviews of Dresden Files books this fall. The first title in this series is Storm Front.
6. CLAUDIA GRAY
We feel a little badly that we haven’t written about the Evernight series on the blog. When we first saw another young adult series set at a school with vampires, we were hesitant, but plowed on anyway. So very happy we did. Claudia Gray has a talent for maintaining tension through the series and surprising you with twists.
7. MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
We can’t decide if we want to read Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series. It looks like this one is either a love it or hate it type series, with both sides telling us it’s “kind of like Gossip Girl with vampires.”
8. CHRISTINE FEEHAN
We don’t typically do the straight-forward romance, so we haven’t given Christine Feehan’s Carpathians series a go. Readers,
Synopsis for Dark Prince (Carpathians #1):
He came to her in the night, a predator — strength and power chiseled his features. The seduction was deep and elemental; he affected her soul. His need. His darkness. His terrible haunting loneliness. Her senses aroused, she craved the dangerous force of his body. Burned for him. And he had only touched her with his mind.
She came to him at dawn, his bleakest hour. As the beast raged inside him, threatening to consume him, he vented his centuries-old despair in an anguished cry that filled the waning night. And she answered, a ray of light, piercing his darkness. A beautiful angel. Her compassion, courage, and innocence awakened in him an exquisite longing and tenderness. He knew he must possess her, for only she could tame his savage side and lift the dark shadow from his soul. Apart they were desolate, bereft. Intertwined physically and spiritually, they could heal one another and experience an eternity of nights filled with love.
9. BRAM STOKER
Yes, we love Dracula. Back in our college days we took a Gothic literature course and Dracula was one of the key books. (My lit professor was obsessed with Dracula, so we delved into mythology, themes and the like, and I must admit it made me fall farther in love with the classic.)
10. POPPY Z. BRITE
We haven’t seen any of Poppy Z. Brite’s vampire novels. So, we’re turning this one back on you guys. Her name just made it into the top 10, but there should be enough of you to give us a good suggestion
