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and Laurell K. Hamilton for quite some time, ever since I discovered Laurell K. Hamilton's books when I was a book dealer. I was browsing in a charity shop for new stock and I came across the first few books in the Anita Blake series. I must confess (with apologies to Ms. Hamilton) that I though they would just be trashy horror books; however trashy horror books sold so I bought them.
Before putting them in the shop I decided to read them and was blown away by how different they were from other vampire books I had read.
Needless to say they never ended up on the shelves and, over the next few years I collected them all. Eventually I did have to sell my collection as I was running a business. Nevertheless, she has remained a firm favourite of mine ever since.
Charlaine Harris was a different story: Like many people I watched True Blood
on TV and really enjoyed it, so my wife bought me a boxed set of the books for Christmas. Since then I have bought, or borrowed, each new book as it has been published, and remained a big fan of her writing.There seems to have been something of an explosion in the number of vampire novels published over the last few years. Some of them are good and some less so. How do you tell the two apart?
Well I recently came across the LoveVampires website, which offers a review of the latest offerings in the genre. The site doesn't only look at the latest book releases but also reviews old vampire fiction as well. There are also interviews with authors as well as competitions and give aways.
So, if you are a big fan of vampire novels and are wondering what to read next, LoveVampires might be worth checking out.
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