Vampire Fantasy : My fascination for all things “Weird”
Chapter Two
Anything related to vampires, I’ll be like “More Please!!”. Being a bibliophile won’t do any good to that either, because you’ll simply end up as a Vampire fantasy book fanatic!. Needless to say that I’m addicted to those books and read them all the time.(Literally!)
Most of them are so damn cliche! but few of them however, worth having your hands on if you are a VF bookworm like me!
- The Vampire Academy
I “seriously” am crazy over the VA series. (Fan Girl Alert!!) What makes VA different from the other mainstream ‘V’ stories, umm…everything!
It’s a well planned, well written story. Has a clear background to it. 3 groups of vampires: The Moroi -Day walking good guys with four types of elemental magic, The Strigoi -Night walking bad guys, with extreme power, speed and immorality!, The Dhampir -Half vampiric guardians who protect the Morois from Strigoi and everything else. (Sounds interesting isn’t it).
The Story evolves around Rosemarie(Rose)Hathaway, a half vampire guardian (Dhampir) and her royal Moroi best fiend Vasilisa Dragomir (Yeah, Moroi has monarchies too). The plot has many twists and turns and action packed in every single chapter and on top of it, it has a brilliant (FG alert again!) love story- Dimitri and Rose’s. Dimitri Belikov is a Russian guardian who enters to the plot as one of the senior guardian trainers in Vampire Academy ( The school Morois and Dampirs go) then he becomes Rose’s love interest.
So much to tell about the story but I’ll just say, Richelle Mead made to the top of my favorite authors list after VA!
2. Abraham (Bram) Stoker’s Dracula
Who doesn’t love the original! Seriously I should have put this first, but I can’t help that I love VA more, Shh!! I know, told you before I can’t help it!
I have first read the classic when I was 12 years old. Honestly, I couldn’t comprehend most of it and I hated its epistolary style at the first part and didn’t get the action sequences in the latter either. But that was only in my first few times, I have read it over dozen times and every time and read it the plot became more clearer to me and I started loving the characters and the V fact. May be Dracula was the one to blame my craziness over ‘V’.
3. A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest
Don’t ask me why the heck didn’t I list out Twilight yet, Well..,let’s see, I think I might need more convincing!
I picked up “A Shade of Vampire” recently because it was on a Kindle deal for $0.99. Anything ‘V’ and anything for 0.99! right up my allay!
Oh my! and it did surprise me in a good way. However, I have to warn you that it can a bit boarder line cliche. A Love story, a beautiful and attractive protagonist, the V prince lover (if you loved Nickaus in TVD, Derek is just the man), hunters and powerful witches.. what else!
I hated Sophia (Protagonist) for her shallowness and unwanted bravery at some parts but Derek was the one to love.
3. The Twilight
Ok, here comes the most overrated V book of all time. It’s not cliche as it is the “original of its kind”, so I think it has its rightful place to be in my list. I actually (somewhat) enjoyed the book in early reads, until the movie and the hype made it otherwise. Bella as a protagonist is everything cringe worthy, but she has some uniqueness as to her character (Dumbness too!).
Edward (J Austen FG alert! ) and other Vamps were portrayed as eye candies, have amplified abilities of their most prominent human traits.
The book has the common mix of a YA fiction (college, drama, love, breakups) and at the same time something fresh to read too (Jacob Black!).
Alas! I wish can made up my mind on whether to love or hate this book! But it stays in the list.
I have many that I can add to list, Trueblood, TVD… um not many.. but I think I have added few covering the main types.
This is not something crazy psychological tbh, nevertheless it’s something fascinating!!
Dau 😍
