Well, I got addicted to werewolves and witches, but until recently I avoided vampires… Too many clichés in that area of books and movies…. I literally made quite a walkaround around that subject… But now it happened, I got caught!
Never thought I wanted to read about them less watch a movie about them… Okay, ‘Moonlight’ got it’s moments and I liked it, because the chars were quite interesting (despite the haircolour of the heroine, but that’s another thing. I just do not like blonds!)- same for ‘Bloodties’, but that was it….
I never felt a crush for Dracula, Interview with a vampire and others like that… Now I stumbled over Twilight- yes stumbled, I was more curious about all that fuzz about the books and movie (almost anytime I looked at Amazon, those books got suggested to me- how annoying ^^) that I told myself:
“Okay, let’s give it a try. Just another vampire theme. Have you seen one, you know them all!”
BOOM! It hit me! Knocked me off balance and I crushed to the floor. Well, if it would have touched me physically, it most certainly would have had that effect on me!
I must admit it, I am addicted! Stephenie Meyer has got an irresistable style of writing, she lets your bookworm- mouth water for more, when she describes the bloodthirst of her vampires, it feels like the thirst for her words….
The last time I experienced that feeling of: “I want to know how it goes on, come on, give it to me, I want to read that!” was when I read Robert Jordan and Kelley Armstrong, especially with Jaime and Jeremy…
It is just funny, some things never change in books and movies on vampires:
- exceptional and blinding beauty
- extraordinary strength and pace
- brooding, slef loathing mood or psychopathic tendencies (the *bad* counterpart of the vampire- hero)
Okay, I can understand that with the psychopathic tendencies, this kind of ‘i am a god’ complex. But I cannot understand the self loathing, this martyr syndrom, especially because most of our male vampire heroes had the choice if they wanted to be turned or not… Why all that brooding afterwards?
It is just like anything else, make your choice and deal with its consequences! Be a woman about it!
Ah, that’s the cue! Women are either the victims to be drained of their blood, the kind- of- being- lonely- heroine who falls in love with the male hero, but never can have a normal love life (Buffy, Moonlight…), but have you ever had the story turned around? A stunning, female beauty who turns out to be the vampire who falls in love with a mere human?
Any suggestions? Anyone?
I admit pace and strength are necessary when you turn into a predator.
But what about that beauty thing? Are only beautiful people turned into vampires or does death or being undead changes your physical appearance that much, from zero to hero? No author ever has made an attempt of explaining that! If it is needed to lure human victims into trusting their predators, why do they need then pace and strength? And if you can outrun any of your prey why do you need to be blindingly beautiful?
Nevertheless, I am kind of addicted right now. I am just glad my mind still manages to be critical and analyzing 
– I addapted it to wrist warmers 
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