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[Schola]

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I decided I couldn't wait for my bookstore to order Dark Prince for me, so I've started with two other Christine Feehan stories: After the Music, a unusually long novella in the anthology A Very Gothic Christmas, and Shadow Game, which I understand is the first book in her "Shapeshifter" series.

I liked the novella well enough, even though the Christmas elements were really corny. I was also pretty dissatisfied with the ending. I understand that much of neo-paganism is harmless, but since the hero's dead wife did hold orgies with a Satanic cult before her death, I think it's all right to let what is evil stay evil. Yet I was impressed by how Feehan stayed in control of all her characters. I'm hoping that it's not a fluke and that she has a real talent for ensemble casts.

As for Shadow Game, I'm only a few pages in. I hesitated about buying this book because I worried that it would leave me as disappointed as James Patterson's Maximum Ride series did . . . but so far the world building is great!

A last note: she likes her psychics and "sensitives," doesn't she?
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[Schola]

Someone I know from off the boards recommended Lynsay Sands.

I see from her Web site that she has a VampRom series (which is always good), but the excerpts read a little bit like ChickLit (which is just not my thing).

Opinions?
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[Linda in sw va]

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I have only read one Lynsay Sands book Vampires are Forever, and I enjoyed it. It was funny and a little chicklit and is certainly not a dark vampire novel but it was a nice change from some of the others I have been reading.

I would go out to buy another.
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[maddie]

Ah, I just got on the board after a long hiatus and had to chime in. I am also a big fan of the vamp lit, and agree with many of the suggestions already given: Twlilight (good good good!), Sookie Stackhouse series (very comedic and light, but that Eric is SEXY), and the JR Ward Brotherhood series (I like these b/c they remind me a lot of the Anita Blake series. Very dark and heavy with lots of angst, blood, and gore).

Someone also mentioned the Blood Ties series by Jennifer Armintrout which I also found to be very engrossing. I haven't finished the last two books in the series, but I can vouch for 1 and 2.

If you like YA fiction, like the Twilight series, try PC Casts House of Night series. She wrote them with her daughter and they are almost as good as Twilight. Very original premise and believable plot and setting.

One more I don't think I saw mentioned is The Darkwing Chronicles series by Savannah Russe. Vamps are secret agents forced to work for the government. Fun and fast reads. Plots are so so but the character relationship developments keep you coming back.

Hope this helps![/b]

[Schola]

How about the book Sex and the Single Vampire? I can't remember the author's name. I was in a hurry and just got to skim a bit of the synopsis, but it sounded all right. Still ChickLit-ish, but not quite as "lite" as one by Lynsay Sands.

Has anyone read it or anything else by its author?
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[Manda]

Kathy Love has a vampire series that's not quite as light as Mary Janice Davidson or Lyndsy Sands, but not dark either. The first one is Fangs for the Memories and was a lot of fun. The hero, Rhys, is a vampire who owns a nightclub in NYC and suddenly reverts back to his Regency England self (which is when he was turned) when he meets his mate. Pretty funny and pretty dark at the same time.

[Schola]