Members alixorn83 Posted August 15, 2007 Members Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 I love romance novels. My favorites are vampire romance novels, a few of my all time favorites are:A very realistic take on vampires that is very bloody. The main character is a college student that is kidnapped to be dinner for a vampire a group of men are keeping chained and caged to use him in their twisted porn movies...The two become friends and then lovers and she decides to become a vampire as well to get back at their captures. (How are so awful you want to see them get theres !)This was one of my first vampire novels and is still one of the best to me...A vampire searchs for his lost love whose soul as been reborn. He finds it in the form of a disabled girl who dreams of being a ballet dancer, and visits her thoughout the years as a friend as she grows up...This a very slow moving and touching story, I cried many times. The cover does not do it justice at all. As a disabed girl myself (though not in a wheelchair like the main character)I have to say that this book treats the subject in a lot nicer way than most.If anyone else likes this topic I would love to post more reveiws here now and then I know a good romance novels from an awful one pretty well by now, I also know some good romances for young adults Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikayla1 Posted August 15, 2007 Members Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 I personally love Ann Rice and a few other "Vampire" writers. I surely would not characterize these novels as romance novels, they are mostly sci-fi or minor horror books, that are erotically linked. When I think romance, I think cheesy and these are NOT cheesy novels! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyger Posted August 15, 2007 Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 I've eyeballed the first book a few times in the bookstores, and haven't gotten it yet. I have read the second one, and, when I am in the mood for vampire romance books, Amanda Ashley does a great job with them! I have several books along these lines. I only keep the REALLY good ones that I will read again. Anne Rice being one of my favorite authors, and having a few Amanda's as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alixorn83 Posted August 16, 2007 Author Members Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 I've tried Anne Rice books but really as a writer myself I've never really like her style of writing...Or maybe it is just her characters...when you don't like someones take on what vampires are it is sort of hard to enjoy the story But if everyone liked the same things I guess the world would be pretty boring This book was really funny, but the main character spent so much time beating around the brush with "Is he or isn't he a vampire ? Hmm, I dunno rather than ask him I'm going to just rant on about my friends lifes, and think about the series of romance books books he reminds me of.. ." moments that lasted nearly whole chapters that I never did finish it . Good if you want something that tries to make jokes about other vampire romance novels, bad if you want this book to be a good romance novel in of itself. I'm sorry, but if I saw a guy that good looking I would spend my time getting to know him and other things, not thinking about romance novels..I like classic romances to, I've always loved retellings of the Cupid and Psyche myth... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lynnzerben Posted August 20, 2007 Members Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 I LOVE Vampire romance novels!!!!!!!! My fav right now is Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter books. They do seem to have as much to do with Greek Mythology as they do with vampires but they're still great! I'll have to look into the ones you mentioned. Anyone else think there should be a forum to talk about adult books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members komana Posted August 24, 2007 Members Report Share Posted August 24, 2007 Yes, I'd love an erotic books forum That said, I've been recently stuck on Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel series. The stories themselves are fantastic, but the main character in the first trilogy is an anguissette, a god-touched masochist who really does find pleasure in pain. There's a lot of bondage/S&M stuff, which, although I don't think I'd like to the degree she describes in her books, seems to get me all hot and bothered anyway. Set in an alternate Renaissance Europe, where France (Terre d'Ange) was peopled by the offspring of actual angels, it's a great story of betrayal, oaths, overcoming adversity, and Love, with a capital L. The motto and religious precept of Terre d'Ange, after all, is "Love as thou wilt." I agree with Mikayla, most romance novels are just too, I don't know, cheesy, with their big strong men, wilting women, and lots of flowers on the front cover. The covers for all the Carey books, to make them easier to find in the Scifi/Fantasy section, are of different views of the heroine's back, in various stages of dress/undress, with a black thorny rose tattoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lynnzerben Posted August 30, 2007 Members Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Yes, I'd love an erotic books forum That said, I've been recently stuck on Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel series. The stories themselves are fantastic, but the main character in the first trilogy is an anguissette, a god-touched masochist who really does find pleasure in pain. There's a lot of bondage/S&M stuff, which, although I don't think I'd like to the degree she describes in her books, seems to get me all hot and bothered anyway. Set in an alternate Renaissance Europe, where France (Terre d'Ange) was peopled by the offspring of actual angels, it's a great story of betrayal, oaths, overcoming adversity, and Love, with a capital L. The motto and religious precept of Terre d'Ange, after all, is "Love as thou wilt." I agree with Mikayla, most romance novels are just too, I don't know, cheesy, with their big strong men, wilting women, and lots of flowers on the front cover. The covers for all the Carey books, to make them easier to find in the Scifi/Fantasy section, are of different views of the heroine's back, in various stages of dress/undress, with a black thorny rose tattoo.My cousin told me about those books. They're some of her fav, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members babeinwoods Posted August 30, 2007 Members Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 I like to read Romance novels also. They are harmless fun. I like Laurell Hamilton's books. Alot of them are set in St. Louis which is not to far from where I live so it's neat to recognise some of the places she is talking about. Vix loaned me some of her Shrrilyn Kenyon books, which I know for a fact she loves, but there were too many characters in them for me to be able to keep them all straight.Babe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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