We should not fall into the cliché that vampire books are only a genre for teenagers, with handsome girls, eroticism, suffering kids who live their lives only at night and with a profile of the ‘eternal young man’ who does a little whatever he wants. No. There are very high quality vampire books, books that are truly scary, that have been made into movies with enormous success and that They have resurrected and dignified the vampire genre with a more than acceptable style.
If you have already devoured, for obvious cinematographic reasons, the ‘Twilight’ vampire saga and you don’t know where to go next, here are three recommendations for series with many books that you will be passionate about: from the classic ‘Vampire Diaries’ by Anne Rice to the saga that gave rise to the successful series ‘True Blood’, These are three of our favorite vampire series.
1) ‘Vampiric Chronicles’ (Anne Rice)
Perhaps the most famous series of vampire novels in history (until Twilight came along) are American writer Anne Rice’s fantastical works about the vampire Lestat. The genre of vampire books had fallen out of favor decades before, but The enormous success of the first volume of the saga, ‘Interview with the Vampire’ (1976), resurrected him forever. The Anne Rice series is made up of thirteen books, which have been released between 1976 and 2018: ‘Interview with the Vampire’, ‘Lestat the Vampire’, ‘The Queen of the Damned’, ‘The Body Snatcher’, ‘Memnoch The Devil’, ‘The Vampire Armand’, ‘Merrick’, ‘Blood and Gold’, ‘The Sanctuary’, ‘Prince Lestat and the Kingdoms of Atlantis’, ‘Blood Song’, ‘Prince Lestat’ and ‘ The community of blood’.
2) ‘The Brotherhood of the Black Dagger’ (JR Ward)
And if you are looking for a saga to start and almost not stop, this is ‘The Brotherhood of the Black Saga’, which consists of no less than 18 books written by author Jessica Bird under the pseudonym JR Ward. Fantasy, vampires and eroticism are the three fundamental ingredients of a saga that focuses on the fight between vampires and ‘lessers’ (restrictors), a kind of soulless humans. The books take place in Caldwell, New York, in the present day, and tell us how the Brotherhood of the Black Dagger (six vampire warriors) defend their clan from the Restricting Society, led by ‘Omega’.
3) ‘Sookie Stackhouse’ (Charlaine Harris)
Officially, this collection of thirteen books is called ‘The Mysteries of the Southern Vampires’, but fans of the genre know it because of its protagonist, Sookie Stackhouse or, for short, as the novels that gave rise to the ‘True Blood’ series (in it, Anna Paquin played Stackhouse). Charlaine Harries is the author of this saga, whose first book was published in 2001 and which presents vampires as if they were something real, openly recognized as part of society. Sookie is one of these supernatural beings, a telepathic waitress who lives in a Louisiana town.
2023-11-13 10:57:03
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