And your neck! I’m hungry!
We’ve got a marvelous prize pack of the three ARCs of Lynsay Sands‘ new Argenau Vampire books:
- The Accidental Vampire (Argeneau Vampires, Book 7)
- Vampires are Forever (Argeneau Vampires, Book 8 )
- Vampire, Interrupted (Argeneau Vampires, Book 9)
- Plus some other little goodies that Gwen apparently has been trying to steal from Syb. 😉
All you need to do to enter to win this fabuloso prize pack is comment about vampires on this post. What’s your favorite part of vampire lore? Favorite vampire movies? Favorite vampire hero? How realistic are vampires in fiction compared to what could happen in real life?
I might love someone forever if they comment about the changing myths about vampires over time and how that reflected the society that it came from. Of course that may be asking for a lot. . .
Be sure to comment on this post about vampires and a winner will be randomly selected to win the three ARCs and the goody bag of toys.
Oh a prize you can really sink your teeth into! (sorry, couldn’t resist)
A friend of mine introduced me to vampire/paranormal books about a year ago. The first being MJD’s Undead series and then Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampires. I have picked up a few other authors that have vampires since then. It has been interesting to see how differantly the authors “write” the vampires. But one thing always remains the same….they are always so sexy!!!
Oooh, I love Vamps, and how perfect for Halloween. Lost Boys is my all time favorite vamp movie…you just gotta love it. As far as fav vamp heros, that is a little more difficult. There are so many great books out there, and series, and in them it seems that none of the vamps share the same characteristics. Which is what makes them fun and interesting, right? I admit that I’m more partial to the sarcastic, sexy take me as I am vamps…like Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunters, or JR Ward Brotherhood, Susan Sizemores Vamps, and Oh, oh Christine Warren’s Others, and Lyndsay Sands Argeneaus…lol, I could go on and on. Any who I think part of the attraction is immortality, the mystique of the unknown, and for me how the author is going to handle the whole drinking blood thing.
I always liked vampire movies but never loved them until I saw Underworld. That was just such an amazing movie & then I discovered Laurell K. Hamilton, Kim Harrison & Charlaine Harris. I just loved how they made their own vampire worlds where vampires are accepted by the human world. They keep them dark & dangerous but also give them some humanity which we tended not to see in some of the older vampire movies. Nowadays, I just cannot seem to get enough of vampires & just about every book I read anymore includes vamps.
I am addicted to vampire paranormals! There is just something about those sexy dead men that do something to me. Even though I do like more of the contemporary vampire fiction rather than the historical vampire ones.
Plus I was a hardcore Buffy fan and loved Angel! Angel was the perfect vampire hero. 🙂
What I think is strange is how vampires went from being scary and macabre creatures back in the day to being sexual and mysterious heros.
anways, this is also the answer to my question about why I think vampires are sexy to romance readers (I LOVE vampires by the way, they are my fav ppl to read about)
Well, there are alot of reasons that vampires are sexy
to romance readers. Vampires represent the unknown –
they are everything that we arent, and everything that
we want to be. They exude mystery and sex appeal that
is stronger than any mere mortal, and yet they have
the power to blend into the shadows at will. They have
the power to be cruel and brutal, and yet sensuous and
passionate without being held accountable for their
actions.
wahta great prize this is, yayay! i love contests and halloween, nd thanx to sybil and gwen for all of their hrd work! This site always puts a smile on my face when i visit it!
I really got started with Paranomals via Kenyon’s Dark-hunters ( Acheron 😉 – be still my heart!)
Since then, there have been several that have caught my attention- JR Ward, Lynsey Sands ( yes, love your books sweetie!) and C. Feehan ( ok- so they are “Carpathians”, sorry- vampires by any other name…… )
I guess I just like the “bad-boy gets saved by good women” vein that so many of these books contain. ‘Cause IRL- that just ain’t happening! And I read to get away from RL so…………….. 🙂
Thanks for the great contest
I love the whole bad boy image also
To be perfectly honest I’ve never read a vampire story but I have enjoyed some of the movies. I like the sexy vampires and the heroine that can’t resist. Maybe it’s that total submission (it is fantasy after all lol). At the moment I’m really enjoying “Moonlight”.
I love vampire stories…especially historical ones. Vampires are dark, dangerous and incredibly sexy. My favorite is Saint from Kathryn Smith’s TAKEN BY THE NIGHT. He can bite my neck ANYTIME! 😉
I vant you to bite me! Love reading about vamps, guess it’s the allure of succumbing to the unknown, a sexy creature of the night, immortal and alone, looking for his one.
Angel was my favorite vamp, and Kenyon’s Zarek.
I like them all, darker and edgy, and the modern ones with a sense of humor.
I’ve always thought the myth stems from blood disorders, like hemophilia.
Vampire books have an appeal that nothing else can match. The ones that I have read are riveting. The confident ones and the ones with a great sense of humor are my favorites. The historicals are more intense and compelling. The intrigue and unknown are so attractive.
I love the vamps as the heroes, make them sexy and complicated, give it a contemporary theme, and you will win me over.
LKH definitely started my hunger (pun intended) for the vamp novel. Currently reading the BDB series and I like how the sexy vamps are just a different species from humans and not necessarily the “un-dead”, I have some trouble finding a corpse sexy (SOME, generally I get over it ;))!
My first vampire book was Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon and I was hooked ~~ Although technically dark-hunters are vampire slayers, well, with fangs.
I like the vampires like Mick St. John on Moonlight. Trying to be the good guy, but looking like a sexy devil 🙂
Guilty Pleasures by LKH was my first vampire read and I never looked back. Jean Claude was such an interesting character, complex…I loved him.
bad-schmad. I just want a man who’ll pump my gas for me.
Vampire anything is my favorite, weather it be a book, movie…or the real thing! Woo Woo!!!
My favorite part of the vampire reads is seeing the way the various authors create the interaction between them–the politics of being a immortal being–also they are all gorgeous sexy and rich which doesn’t hurt either…
It’s funny because I used to be so gung-ho on vampires, to the extent that I pretty much ignored all the other creepy crawlies. That doesn’t mean I lost my interest in the fang brigade, I’m particularly fascinated by the folklore from eastern Europe. I thought it was particularly interesting when my therapist told me her father–a man who grew up in pre-WWII eastern Europe–refused to sleep in a house with any open windows due to the strength in his belief of vampires gaining entrance. I also read a book once about “real life” monsters that claimed the incidence of vampirism in Italy is almost nil due to the high concentration of garlic in their diet. Weird trivia, eh? =)
It’s funny, my mother won’t read vampire novels- the drinking blood thing is very unnerving for her (it might be because she’s in the medical profession) but I love them.
However, it bothers me sometimes that the vampires get so twisted from their original myth of being pure evil. They used to be some type of warning, now they’re a sex symbol. How does that change?
Another thing that can bother me is when the vampire doesn’t have enough weaknesses- this is the problem I run against with Christine Feehan’s books sometimes. I mean, other than they get tired during the day and have to sleep (but the old ones can push that boundary) and being vulnerable to their life mates, Carpathians don’t have many weaknesses. But then, it can be argued that in Feehan’s novels, Carpathians aren’t real vampires, so they shouldn’t be treated like them. Still, I like my vampires to have a little bit more limitation to them. I like how Jean Claude from the Early Anita series can’t get into her apartment without her permission, and how he’s vulnerable to her because she’s a necromancer and he’s technically, dead.
Though if you think about it, the traditional vampires are anything but sexy (think: Van Helsing *shudders*) underneath the glamor. And sometimes it’s hard to trust the good looks that all vampires seem to sport. And the no heart-beating thing is rather unnerving.
But Nora Robert’s Cain? Oh, he was well done. There you’ve got a guy that has limitations, good looks, but also a nasty temperament at times which makes him imperfect enough that he’s real.
Oh, after thinking about this for a while, I came up with another vampire that’s sexy, but has good limitations on him that I thought was really well done. Mercedes Lackey’s “Children of the Night.” Somewhat a romance, and done SO well.
Love the covers to this series. Remember Lost Boys, it was such a good vampire movie. Jason Patric and Keifer Sunderland. I love vampires because they are powerful, sexy, magnetic bad boys. Currently, my favorite vamps are in the J.R. Ward Black Dagger series and both Susan Sizemore series, Laws of the Blood and the series with the clans and tribes.
One of the first fiction book I’ve read was about a vampire and since I was little I’ve always been fascinated by the paranormal. It’s really interesting to see how an author will make the vampire in their book read like – there are some who followed the “traditional” lore of vampire being sexy mysterious beings and others who make them sound absolutely hideous (i.e. Ilona Andrew’s Magic Bites book) I love Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampires mostly because they’re all unique in their way; like Eric, and Pam although I hate Bill! but just because of what he did to Sookie but I digrees! I’ve read a few books that make vampires sound like the same sexy yet unfeeling being but I’ve always thought they shouldn’t be so robot-like if you will.
I think that if vampires were real (maybe they are..ooooooh! heh) some could be heartless killers while others are more feeling – honestly, who knows. I think it comes down to that specific vampire and their morals. Or lack of.
Oooh, the Argeneau vampires are hot! 😛
My favorite book & movie is Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I haven’t read a lot of vampire books. Some by MelJean Brooks & Heather Graham.
Interview With A Vampire..book AND movie…ahh…I’ll never look at vampires the same again. What hotter pair than Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise?!
The thing I really like about vampires is their immortality—as a history student, I am fascinated by the possibility of talking to someone who has lived for centuries, even millennia! That having been said, the most original (and dare I say realistic) treatment of vampires I’ve read lately was in a young adult novel: Scott Westerfeld’s Peeps (and its sequel of sorts, The Last Days), which offers a scientific explanation of vampires and tears the usual mystique to threads. It’s also interesting that there are so many vampire novels for young adults nowadays; thirty years ago I doubt that was the case.
My favorite vampir estories are the Vallerian Series by Linda Leal Miller… hot and powerful!
I have read Lynsay’s vampire books (1 to 6) and really liked them… and they were the first vampire books I had tried!
I think it’s interesting how vampires went from being completely evil, to slightly evil, to … well today’s mix. Either the super tormented dark vampire battling supernatural beings, etc – or the earlier Lydsay Sands vampires – who were just like [the nicer], say, Harlequin Romance heroes. I like the variety – the JR Ward Brotherhood vampires, to Kathy Love’s “Fangs” books. Regardless, they’re always angsty, super sexy, and have major fangs.
I wonder if I like vampires because they don’t ever go out in the sun. As a fair skinned redhead, who got a sunburn in 30 minutes on 10/24/07, I really like the no-sun thing.
I have yet to actually find a good vampire movie yet, but am looking forward to the “True Blood” series; I really like the Southern Vampires series and how there is an entire culture surrounding them, so well developed. Those books also deal pretty well with the issue of humans finding out about vampires’ existence, it seems like there should be a lot more freaking out or at least contemplation in most books. Love Lynsay’s books, just wish Lucian had been a bit grumpier in his book, he seemed way declawed (defanged?) in “Bite Me If You Can.” Still looking forward to these!
My favorite TV vamps are Spike and Angel, Bookwise I like Kerrelyn Sparks’ vamps. They’re fun 🙂
My favorite TV vamp is Henry Fitzroy from “Blood Ties.”
My favorite book vamps are Zarek and Zsadist because I’m more into the tortured and brooding ones.
When I was a young girl my mom would put me to bed and instead of telling me a happy go lucky story she would give me warnings like ” If there is a little boy scratching at your window, DON’T let him in” (Salem’s Lot). I grew up listening to all the warnings about Vampires from my mom. She absolutely loved them, me personally I was scared shitless. Back then and I am not mentioning years here, they were down right scary but still my mother wanted to leave her window open and have one bite her!
These days she would have appreciated the new breed of Vamps that grace the pages and she would find it very funny that I LOVE them all, even the creepy ones. I guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Fave Movie ~ Dracula
Fave Vamp sheesh I am a vamp whore so I couldn’t pick just one =)
I’m open to just about any depiction of vampires, and I love most in the reading about them. They are very fascinating yet somewhat frightening (probably more the latter if I were ever to meet one for real). Fav vampires? Hmm, tough choices but Emma Holly’s Upyr and JR Ward’s BDB definitely come to mind.
I love vampires, I have ever since I was younger. My first look at vampires was the movie The Lost Boys. I thought they were so hot lol It’s been a ever growing love since then
I love when vampires are the heroes in a paranormal romance. I love that they have physical limitations but have adapted to thrive among humans and have resorted to some drastic measures to preserve their culture. And if they are trying to fight to keep their species from becoming extinct?… Vampire Warriors. Can’t get much more admirable than that.
There is something so basic and sexy about a vampire biting and taking in the essence of their mate as part of a bonding ritual or simply for lovemaking purposes. It takes the intimacy between lovers to a whole new level that is just incredibly sexy and irresistible.
I really love bad boys and tortured heroes and there are not better ones than Vampires
One of my first vampire books was Linda Lael Miller’s “For All Eternity”.
Favorite lore: mate for eternity
Favorite vampire: Count Dracula
I remember the daytime series Dark Shadows.
Did any of you watch that?
I saw something on the history channel about
Lucrece Borgia who supposedly drank the blood of over 600 servant girls!!! I think a lot of it was fear of the dark and the unknown…to keep people from wandering around at night. Everyone was very superstitious!
Lynsay’s vampire books are awesome!
My favorite vampire movie is “Dracula” (1992) with Gary Oldman and Wynona Ryder. I love the scene at the end where they embrace and she says “Take me away from all this death.”
It was Elizabeth Bathory also known as The Blood Countess who drank blood and bathed in it as well, Laurie. Is that who you’re talking about?
Kerrelyn Sparks writes a funny and sexy vampire series. 🙂
And i am also addicted to Kathryn Smiths series, even though I still have to get my lil old hands on Saint’s book.
I use to be a die hard Anita Blake fan, but when she started boinking everything in sight, well no more for me, even though Jean Claude was to die for! (hardy har har)
Elizabeth Bathory murdered hundreds of young girls. She thought virgin’s blood would keep her young and use to take baths in their blood. YUK! 🙁
Well, I like humorous vampire stories the most. I’m not sure I have a favorite vamp hero, though.
I liked the vampires from 30 Days of Night. They weren’t broody, whiny, angsty vampires who walked around in leather and looked all hot… yo, they didn’t fuck around, for sure.
You know, I really don’t like vampires in actual folklore. But I do like that paranormal romance has managed to take the myths and make them its own. I love seeing what different authors do to the vampire genre.
I like vampires because of the mystery and danger that surrounds them. They have mesmerizing personalities and they know what they want and do whatever it takes to get it.
I think secretly every woman wants a litlle danger in her life. Since we can’t always have that, what better way that a vampire in our books. They can be humorous, they are always sexy, and that living forever thing ain’t so bad.
Oh, I just loooove vampire books!! I’ve read one of Linsay’s books, “Bite me if you can”, and I have to say: it was great!!!!! I gave it 5 stars out of 5. So the people who haven’t, realy need to read her books!! 😉