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The best of vampire fiction that is not marketed for young adults.
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1701 |
Hunter, Hunted (The Spire Chronicles, #1)
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Ashley Meira (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 924 ratings
score: 41,
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1701 |
Vampire Chase
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 41,
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1703 |
Ties That Bind (The Spire Chronicles, #2)
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Ashley Meira (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 562 ratings
score: 40,
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1703 |
Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars
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3.35 avg rating — 95 ratings
score: 40,
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1705 |
King's Gambit (The Spire Chronicles, #3)
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Ashley Meira (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 438 ratings
score: 39,
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1705 |
Death of the Vampire Baroness and Other Thrilling Stories
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 39,
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1707 |
Devil's Descent I: purgatory:
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Claudia D. Christian (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 38,
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1707 |
Shadowlands (The Spire Chronicles, #4)
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Ashley Meira (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 299 ratings
score: 38,
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1709 |
The Vampire Master
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3.03 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 37,
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1710 |
Vampire of the Skies
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score: 36,
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1711 |
Cold Hearted (Yancy Lazarus, #2)
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James A. Hunter (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 672 ratings
score: 35,
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1711 |
The Blood of the Vampire
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3.61 avg rating — 958 ratings
score: 35,
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1713 |
Savage Prophet (Yancy Lazarus, #4)
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James A. Hunter (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 358 ratings
score: 34,
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1713 |
The Vampire
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score: 34,
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1715 |
Wendigo Rising (Yancy Lazarus, #3)
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James A. Hunter (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 495 ratings
score: 33,
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1715 |
Little Orphan Vampires
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3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 33,
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1717 |
The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress
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3.55 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 32,
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1 person voted
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1718 |
Flashback: The Morrigan (Yancy Lazarus, #3.5)
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James A. Hunter (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 166 ratings
score: 31,
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1718 |
The Vampire Contessa: From The Journal of Jeremy Quentain
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 31,
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1 person voted
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1720 |
Graveyard Druid (Colin McCool, #2)
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M.D. Massey (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 3,028 ratings
score: 30,
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1 person voted
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1720 |
Thirst of the Vampire
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 30,
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1722 |
Junkyard Druid (Colin McCool, #1)
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M.D. Massey (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 4,456 ratings
score: 29,
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1722 |
Dracula Began
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 29,
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1 person voted
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1724 |
Dracula's Dog
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3.45 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 28,
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1 person voted
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1725 |
Shadow Play (Black Magic Outlaw, #2)
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Domino Finn (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 748 ratings
score: 27,
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1 person voted
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1725 |
I Am Dracula
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3.98 avg rating — 193 ratings
score: 27,
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1 person voted
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1727 |
Heart Strings (Black Magic Outlaw, #3)
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Domino Finn (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 562 ratings
score: 26,
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1 person voted
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1727 |
The Rivals of Dracula: A century of vampire fiction
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Michel Parry (Editor)
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 26,
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1 person voted
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1729 |
Powder Trade (Black Magic Outlaw, #4)
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Domino Finn (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 426 ratings
score: 25,
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1 person voted
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1729 |
Dracula's Daughter
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Carl Dreadstone (Pseudonym)
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 25,
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1 person voted
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1731 |
Fire Water (Black Magic Outlaw #5)
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Domino Finn (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 352 ratings
score: 24,
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1 person voted
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1731 |
Dracula's Brood: Neglected Vampire Classics
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3.94 avg rating — 226 ratings
score: 24,
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1 person voted
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1733 |
The Blood of Dracula
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 23,
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1 person voted
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1734 |
Midnight Falls (The Order of Shadows #2)
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Kit Hallows (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 22,
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1734 |
Dracula's Guest and Other Stories
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3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 22,
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1 person voted
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1736 |
Hunted (Guardians' League, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 307 ratings
score: 21,
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2 people voted
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1736 |
Frankenstein Meets Dracula
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 21,
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1738 |
Evil Spark (Dark Magic Enforcer, #2)
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Al K. Line (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 688 ratings
score: 20,
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1738 |
Dracula Returns (Dracula, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
score: 20,
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1740 |
New Spark (Dark Magic Enforcer, #3)
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Al K. Line (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 588 ratings
score: 19,
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1740 |
The Hand of Dracula! (Dracula, #2)
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3.22 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 19,
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1742 |
Guilty Spark (Dark Magic Enforcer, #4)
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Al K. Line (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 539 ratings
score: 18,
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1742 |
The Brides of Dracula
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3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 18,
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1744 |
Dracula Cha Cha Cha
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3.77 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
score: 17,
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1744 |
Neon Spark (Dark Magic Enforcer, #5)
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Al K. Line (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 498 ratings
score: 17,
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1744 |
Disco Dracula
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 17,
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1747 |
The Turning (Turning Vampire Series, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 16,
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1747 |
Hidden Spark (Dark Magic Enforcer, #6)
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Al K. Line (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 453 ratings
score: 16,
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1747 |
Dracula in Istanbul: The Unauthorized Version of the Gothic Classic
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3.92 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 16,
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1750 |
Dead Spark (Dark Magic Enforcer, #7)
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Al K. Line (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 405 ratings
score: 15,
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1750 |
Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula
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Valdimar Ásmundsson (Adaptation)
3.62 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
score: 15,
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1752 |
Wild Spark (Dark Magic Enforcer, #8)
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Al K. Line (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 371 ratings
score: 14,
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1752 |
Count Dracula's Canadian Affair
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 14,
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1754 |
Dracula’s Brethren
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3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 13,
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1755 |
The Bat Woman
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 12,
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1756 |
Red Wine of Rapture
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score: 11,
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1757 |
Out for Blood
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John Peyton Cooke (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 118 ratings
score: 4,
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1758 |
Dreadful Hollow
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 3,
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1759 |
Doctors Wear Scarlet
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3.75 avg rating — 146 ratings
score: 2,
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The Monster Club
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4.09 avg rating — 212 ratings
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list created June 27th, 2008
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Yeah, it gets a tad annoying that every other new books released (especially in the young-adult genre) are mostly about vampires.


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i totally agree! i love this stuff, and every book is different, puts a new spin on the vampire universe.

My thoughts exactly. Why is Twilight at the top of the list and Dracula is only number 3? There's a problem here.



The Stake
Bite
The Travelling Vampire Circus
(all are by Richard Laymon)
or...
The Keep (by F. Paul Wilson)
or...
The Thirst (by Robert McCameron)
or...
Carrion Comfort
Children of the Night
(both are by Dan Simmons)
or...
Gideon (by Stephen Laws)
Great list. I love most vampire books, including Twilight. I really don't know why so many people get up in arms over it - it's just a story. Okay, the vampires sparkle, but at least that's different. Everyone would be equally unhappy if Meyer had gone out and copied every other vampire novel.
omg it's always twilight series up there == but vampire academy series is way better and every1 who has read it knows it too! DimitriXRose <3

OMG i know!!!!! compared to VP, twilight sucks soo bad... i would so rather VP be movies than twilight!

Kind of like how in the last book at the very end she suddenly reveals the pack aren't 'werewolves' but 'shapeshifters.'
Or how she says Bella is smart >_>


Sorry, but its true.
I did love TWILIGHT untill the movies.
But even then, DRACULA was better.
The Count for everrrrrr

.Hell YEah!!I go for the badasses!!Bella is just a helpless teenager and Edward is a pedophile...Rose and Dimitri have the perfect chemistry...damn twilight...TEAM DIMKA!


Well put, I couldn't agree with you more!


Twilight is an amazing book.. I've read the vampire academy and that series is amazing to.. but their different kinds of amazing for different people. I like both but that doesn't mean everyone does. U can sit there and say twilight is this and that but when it comes down to it well there is a reason while it is at the top of the list so get over it!! And for those complaining about them sparkling I mean really!!... unless u no a real vampire dam live vampire (which I'm pretty sure u dont) then don't act like u no how they r suppose to b! Vampires vary from book to book, humans rnt all the same either some might have 9 or 11 fingers instead of 10 that doesn't make them any less human now does it!? both twilight and vampire academy also give u different views on vampires that's y they r so popular.... look at the moroi, where besides vampire academey have u have heard of vampires being weak and needing to b protected by half humans. People!!... this is FICTION not life it all comes down to the authors version/interpretation of vampires... since the time when dracula was written vampire ideas have evolved like the rest of the world always has and to b honest that's not who I think of when I think of vampires I think of a being who have to drink blood to live if the character has that then guess what.. its a vampire. whenever u c twilight listed in the nonfiction section then complain.. there's a reason its not.... they rnt real!!! end of story

What all of you "twilight lovers" out there don't trully understand, is that this isn't the only problem this book has. The grammar is poor, the writing style is terrible, the characters are flat and annoying, and I don't have to pretend that I like this book just because you and 1000 other frustrated girls say that I have to. I have a RIGHT to rate this book with a 1 star just like others have the same right to hate books that I love. (And yes, I've read it, so I know what I'm talking about)
Thanks.

For the Twilight fans - I read it, but not the others, and thought it was okay but not my kind of book. However, I really don't understand why people dislike it so vehemently. The characters and style work and the plot moves smoothly.

but there are some really good reads out there and im reading ,

I agree........... I thought I was yhe only one who thinks that way ;)

I love the Twilight books not for the vampires. Yes it makes it interesting but I love them because of the story and characters.


The Stake
Bite
The Travelling Vampire Circus
(all are by Richard Laymon)
or...
The Keep (by F. Paul Wilson)
or...
The Thirst..."
The KEEP?
I thought I was the ONLY ONE who read that book (me and the person who lent me the book)...
I wish they'd release the following ones on the series here. Damn publishers

THE HELL?!
WHY IS TWILIGHT UP THERE. TIWLIGHT IS A CARPY LOAD OF CARP!
http://bookstove.com/fantasy/why-i-ha...
there all your reasons!
HATE TWILIGHT AHTE TWILIGHT HATE IT.
WHAT..."
Honestly? A bit too much hate IMO.
Twilight is a cliche made for teenage girls to feel good and sell well. Sure, but how many other books are like that?
And really, why do you care?
WHy do you HATE it so bad? Hate it, don't read it and avoid anywhere discussing it by all means.
I think I agree with you on pretty much all instances, and hell, Lestat is WAY MUCH MORE of a vampire than any of Meyer's. And yet, I don't think it's nice to go around bashing people for liking it (as it is not nice to bash people for disliking it). Summin up, I'm just pointing... Why so much anger?

I"m just sort of sick and tired of rabid fan girls who hav ebeen attacking me f..."
I get the reasons. I don't get why waste time and effort to feel that hate...
*shrugs* I won't argue.


So, its no Twi for tweens.

I Am Legend is at 26, and that's disgusting.

THE HELL?! WHY IS TWILIGHT UP THERE. TIWLIGHT IS A CARPY LOAD OF CARP!
http://bookstove.com/fantasy/why-i-ha...
there all your reasons! HATE TWILIGHT AHTE TWILIGHT HATE IT. WHAT..."
While I agree with some of your points on your "list". There are a few redeeming qualities about the story. Even though you don't get to them until the last ten chapters of the final book. Also the perfection of the whole damn thing does make me a bit queasy.
Anyway... So I've noticed that you have a bit of a hatred thing going on with Twilight, but I noticed that you've rated the "Blue Bloods" series high. Really? Twilight disgusted you but Blue Bloods was on point? Hmm...
Mayara wrote: "I get the reasons. I don't get why waste time and effort to feel that hate...
*shrugs* I won't argue..."
I agree. That's a lot of time and effort. But I guess we all have to have our emo hobbies. *clicks onward*
Dameyon wrote: "This list makes my eyeballs ache. It's mostly just a bunch of vampire romance novels that make for good necrophiliac obsessed fantasies..."
Well, yea... Dude the list is called, "Best Vampire Books" and vampires are fantasy. Right? But I do see what you mean. There is hardly enough gore in some of these stories. *coughs* Twilight *coughs* But I think what you're looking for may be closer to the horror genre. You can thank Bram Stoker for the concept of the passionate almost warrior like vampire image having nightly encounters with unsuspecting women.
I myself have just started reading vampire novels and have read Dracula, the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward, Twilight series and have just started Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. So far Hamilton's series is a little slow compared to the action in Ward's novels. Ward takes a total different approach to the vampire world which makes it quite interesting. I have to agree that compared to the Twilight vampires, ugh. But that's just my personal preference for an Alpha Male and an equally strong female in my stories. I can't deal with the second string warm up team. Sorry for the sports reference... I'm sure as I dabble more into the vampire novels my list will change and grow long.
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