Dead is the New Black and Dead is a State of Mind
by Marlene Perez
Cute, light, easy-on-the-brain supernatural books. Daisy is a “norm” in a family of psychics. Her father was also a norm but he disappeared and no one is sure if he’s dead of alive. Daisy believes he abandoned them but the rest of [...]
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Dead and Gone
A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
by Charlaine Harris
If you’ve never read a Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire book, I warn you not to read any further but to pick up the first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, and begin there.
Sookie’s in for another wild ride. The Weres are going public, her soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law is found crucified behind Sookie’s [...]
Vampire Knight
by Matsuri Hino
Yuki Cross has no memories of her life before the age of five. Ten years ago, she was attacked by an evil vampire and saved by a powerful, pure-blood vampire, Kaname Kuran. Kaname took her to live with an ally who opened the Cross Academy where there are two classes, the night class [...]
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Darkside
by Beth Fantaskey
Jessica knows that she was adopted and that her name at birth was Antanasia, but what she doesn’t know is that she is actually a vampire and that she was betrothed to another young vampire when she was only a baby. Her betrothed, Lucius Vladescu, has come to collect his bride and bring [...]
Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel
by Richelle Mead
So, I’m not really going to describe what’s happened in this novel seeing how it’s book three and so much hinges on what has happened in books one and two. Just know, the story continues to build. The Strigoi are becoming a bigger and more puzzling threat that will definitely add to the [...]
The Morganville Vampires Series
by Rachel Caine
The sleepy town of Morganville, TX is not all that it seems. It’s the home toTexas Prairie University (TPEwwww), a school where partying rules and academics are an after-thought, and not much else. Claire is 16 and smart. She graduated high school early with acceptances to prestigious colleges such as MIT, Yale, and [...]
The Darkangel
by Meredith Ann Pierce
While Aeriel and her mistress, Eoduin, are picking flowers for a wedding high atop a mountain peak, Eoduin is captured by a vampyre — a pale, gorgeous, black-winged creature. When Aeriel returns without Eoduin, Eoduin’s mother blames Aeriel for her daughter’s demise and Aeriel is set to be sold at the [...]
True Blood
While everyone else is going crazy over the making and release of the Twilight movie*, I am going crazy over the making and release of True Blood, the new HBO series to be aired in September that is based on one of my absolute favorite vampire series, the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine [...]
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L. J. Smith and the Night World
In the long, long ago when I was a teenager (ok, so not that long ago) I was in love with a series by L. J. Smith called the Night World. Recently I have had several L. J. Smith encounters, not with the actual person but with her work. In the bookstore I noticed that [...]
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