...but they end up making you laugh. I don't know how long the paranormal romance fad is going to last but after 5+ years it is still going strong. I don't really enjoy the blood and guts of vampire novels but the vamp romances I read are usually more funny than bloody.
It intrigues me the way different author's tackle the origin and need to feed of vampires. Lyndsay Sands creates her vamps as the natives of Atlantis, where technology was so advanced that they created microbots that are injected into the bloodstream and repair damage to the body. Well they may have been advanced in technology but evidently they didn't know biology. The body is always dying and weakening so their little bots were constantly working to repair the body and keep it in peak condition. Since they use blood to repair the body they then needed to replace the blood or those little bots would end up killing the body they were trying to preserve. Sound confusing? Sands definitely describes it better and one of my favorites by her is "The Accidental Vampire".
Other author's I enjoy don't have as unique origin stories but the almost all feed from blood banks or, as Kerrilyn Sparks Vamps do, synthetic blood. I just read a new author who is starting a Vamp series about a childrens librarian turned Vamp after being shot by a drunk hunter. Her series starts with "Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs", and reminds me of MaryJanice Davidson's "Undead..." series. Very humorous but doesn't tell the story in one book.
Okay that's enough of for the undead right now, I'm heading back to Iris Johansen and some breathtaking suspense!
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