Alright, guys. I need your help. I'm slowly running out of reading material, and I plan to go on a bookrun soon. Trouble is...I don't know what I should buy. My tastes run the gamut, but recently, I just want to read some good fantasy or vampire fiction. I've already finished Twilight and the second book, and I'm also a fan of the Anita Blake series, but I also love Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Any suggestions...? And thanks for the help, everyone.
Bram Stocker, "Dracula" - definitely!
Alas...I've read that already. And the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles.
S.P. Somtow
Those Who Hunt the Night was a decent read. I actually enjoyed it, unlike most vampire literature.
Someone is going around slaying vampires. Suffice to say, the vampires aren't pleased. They need someone to sniff around during daylight, and they blackmail a former spy into doing it for them. And of course it turns out that things aren't what they seemed.
The setting is similar to Sherlock Holmes... now with NATURAL VAMPIRE JUICE.
Ooh. Interesting. I'm definitely going to have to check that out.
Any more suggestions, everyone?
Damn. Forgot to ask about the setting... Is it modern? Steampunk? Neo-Victorian?
Near the end of the Victorian era.
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Somtow wrote the Vampire Junction series which I think was well known in the 80's. However, I prefer his 'historical horror' works like Moon Dance (a werewolf novel which I don't remember much about, but it was pretty good.) My favorite work of his is Darker Angels, a novel about zombies and voodoo in the wake of the Civil War.
I'll definitely have to check him out.
Have any of you read anything by Christopher Moore? I've heard he was good, but I've never actually read his stuff...
I didn't find any of Christopher Moore's novels that I read particularly engaging. He appeals to some people though.
What DOES he write about? All the covers to his books seem a bit...farcical. They remind me of the Diskworld series covers...
That's because his fiction is farcical. Think absurdist with a humorous bent.
His style isn't too distant from Diskworld, except it's in a contemporary setting.
I'll have to read one of his books if only because I'm a fan of Diskworld.
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Wow, you just made me have to buy one of his books. A book being compared to Discworld/H2G2 always does that to me.
Another Diskworld/Hitchhiker's Guide fan, eh? Awesome. OP here, by the by.
It's in the same category. I wouldn't say it's in the same league.
Well, I wouldn't doubt it. Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams are pretty up there as far as their genres go.
Well, regardless, I'll probably end up reading one of his books. I blame my morbid curiosity.
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OP:
I like me some Amelia Atwater-Rhodes novels. Sure, they're at a sixth grade reading level, but they're still good timefillers. She writes mainly vampire and shapeshifter stuff. Lately I've been reading the Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale. It's not what you asked for, but they're still pretty good. They're set in the late 1800s-early 1900s and the main character has kind of a Jekyll-and-Hyde thing going on.
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OP:
I like me some Amelia Atwater-Rhodes novels. Sure, they're at a sixth grade reading level, but they're still good timefillers. She writes mainly vampire and shapeshifter stuff. Lately I've been reading the Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale. It's not what you asked for, but they're still pretty good. They're set in the late 1800s-early 1900s and the main character has kind of a Jekyll-and-Hyde thing going on.
OP here. Can you suggest me some titles from Atwater-Rhoades? Plot synopses would be welcome as well.
Funny you should mention Montmorency. I dearly love that series. I'm on Montmorency and the Assassins. I'm also reading A Series of Unfortunate Events and Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. In addition to fantasy and vampire lit, I also have a fondness for period novels and classic novels and authors.