Jilli, have you heard anything--good or bad--about this one? [link]
It's about a human boy hiding amongst vampires in a human-less society, but it's not out until May.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polgara - Mar 07, 2012 1:00:34 pm PST #18153 of 28282
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Atropa - Mar 07, 2012 7:37:11 pm PST #18154 of 28282
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I haven't heard a thing about that one. But it sounds like someone wanted to have their vampires and dystopia all in one place.
It also sounds like a YA/dystopia take on this book: [link]
Typo Boy - Mar 07, 2012 8:23:21 pm PST #18155 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Also, if it is a world with no humans, then the vampires live on animal blood/synthetic blood. Which makes them humans with superpowers, special dietary needs, and possibly allergies to sunlight and garlic.
Polter-Cow - Mar 07, 2012 8:39:20 pm PST #18156 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which reminds me of Daybreakers, which was pretty cool.
Polgara - Mar 08, 2012 9:31:33 am PST #18157 of 28282
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Genre mashups--it's what's for dinner!
It also sounds like a YA/dystopia take on this book: [link]
Too bad the reviews make it sound average, 'cause the premise sounds interesting.
Also, if it is a world with no humans, then the vampires live on animal blood/synthetic blood. Which makes them humans with superpowers, special dietary needs, and possibly allergies to sunlight and garlic.
I was wondering about that part--eradicating the preferred food supply doesn't sound terribly smart.
smonster - Mar 08, 2012 9:47:28 am PST #18158 of 28282
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I was wondering about that part--eradicating the preferred food supply doesn't sound terribly smart.
So vampires are no smarter than humans, then.
Cass - Mar 08, 2012 10:53:19 am PST #18159 of 28282
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Basically.
Toddson - Mar 08, 2012 12:18:22 pm PST #18160 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Although humans can eat - and have eaten - each other, would the same hold true for vampires? (too gross? I'll delete if so)
And, tangentially, I was in the bookstore and noticed that Katniss is on the covers of Entertainment Weekly, People, and Glamour.
Typo Boy - Mar 08, 2012 12:26:25 pm PST #18161 of 28282
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
But you can't maintain a population of humans totally on numans. At the least some of them have to eat something else, and really even if you maintain a pop of grain fed humans for the cannibals, pure cannibalism is not healthy physically. Arithmetically at least the first point applies to vampires.
Though vamps, as someone said, may be no smarter than humans. When the fangs distend, they drain all the blood from the brain.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2012 12:37:56 pm PST #18162 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stopped reading Piers Anthony when I was about 15 because he started making me feel really uncomfortable. He's the only author who I turned against so violently that I immediately went and sold all the copies I owned of his books--probably 8 or so Xanth books at the time. One too many glimpses of panties, I think. I just felt creeped out.
But I didn't know all this: [link]
That's just gross. I'm really glad I didn't get past Xanth. Really quite glad.