The Real Werewives of Vampire County by Alexandra Ivy, Angie Fox, Tami Dane and Jess Haines
Whoever thought of this should get a gold star, because this little collection of four very tongue firmly in cheek stories is a real treat. Each of the stories takes a fun look at the whole werewolf romance genre (if you can actually call it that) and more or less turns it sideways.
The first in the book is Where Darkness Lives and Ivy uses this opportunity to give us fans a bit of a backstory to the “bitch of all bitches” Sophia from her series “Guardians of Eternity”. Of course, Sophia says she won’t fall for the new bodyguard but we all know where this one is going! Plenty of hot scenes and lots of very clever dramatic play for a short story, but then we all know Ivy is capable of it!
Murder on Wysteria Land is next and has to be my fave of the bunch. Sure the mystery in it wasn’t the main part of the story, but the humor definitely was. When tomboy weregal Heather has to go undercover with a hot looking vamp to uncover a murder in a very toni part of town, well let’s just say that her need to look svelte all the time leaves her peeling outa clothes regardless of who is watching! This is just a plain fun story.
The third story, Werewolves in Chic Clothing is one of those who dunnit stories that is really more about the characters. Gal moves into fiancés house to find that his last wife, who died in mysterious ways looked just like her. It is a kind of bluebeard story for modern times with a paranormal twist. But the characters of the others wives was precious.
We finish with What’s Yours is Mine- probably the weakest story but still a great read. Tiffany wants to join up with a pack of werewolves in a very exclusive gated community. There is plenty of back story to set up the twist ending, and I don’t want to give anything away. Let’s just say that everything is not always the way it appears, even with werewolves.
All in all The Real Werewives of Vampire County is a cute set of stories about the not so private lives of a quartet of women werewolves who just want to have fun.
True Blood Bits and Pieces
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I know that everyone has been waiting to get more news from the show or the books, but sometimes the well just runs dry! But while cruising the web looking for more updates on our favorite barmaid, I have run across some odds and ends about True Blood, Sookie and Company and more that I thought I could share with you:
New Sookie!
Yes- it is true that at the Romantic Times Convention in Chicago Charlaine Harris announced the title of the next Sookie Stackhouse book. It will be the thirteenth book in the Southern Vampire Series and is called Dead Ever After. What is more she has said that it is the last book in the series, so it will be Sookie’s swan song. The book is due to be release May 2013 so it will be a long wait for this one folks!
True Blood – Mistakes Vamps Make
Okay, so I caught this little video that I assume is a promo for the upcoming season of True Blood. But let me tell you, this is one hilarious video and the best part of it is that it shows that the folks who make the show don’t take themselves too seriously. Just enjoy-
That’s it for this week – should have news for you next week. Stay true!
Best Vampire Stories: The Vampire that Started Them All
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Most of us think of the very first vampire book as being Dracula by Bram Stoker. It is true that this version of a vampire is one of the more popular ones, and the first version to make it to celluloid. But it isn’t the first vampire story, there were many before it.
In fact, the earliest vampire stories were old folk tales that almost every civilization had of creatures that roamed the night and drank the blood of those unlucky enough to be caught by them. But the first published book was The Vampyre and was published in 1819. It was thought at first to be written by a man who was the rock star of his age, Lord Byron. In truth, it was written by his doctor John Polidori. It was based on a story concept Byron had conceived during the famous ghost-story contest that spawned Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but he never completed it. Polidori took the idea of the narrator who falls in with a mysterious artistocrat who it turns out is a vampire. Of course, the creature just happens to remind one of Lord Byron, which didn’t exactly please him. But from this story was born the idea of the wealthy gentleman vampire. Even today the story holds up well as a smart tale of mystery.
The book at the time launched a huge vampire craze complete with theatre based on the idea, an opera and several sequels to the original. There was even a French translation by Dumas of the book. So you can see that even without the mass media we have today, the story of the vampire had just as much impact when it first arrived close to 200 years ago.
The vampire story has been around a long time, and I think it will continue to haunt us and fascinate us, no matter what form it takes.
