Article contributed by Suya Chry
One of the highest appraised supernatural characters in the world of fiction are vampires. By the onset of the nineteenth century, authors began to write about this mysterious creature that lived by feeding on blood. Generally portrayed in modern literature as sleek, sensual, and dangerous, there are tons of books centred on vampires. Sometimes you just get the need to start reading a good long series, immerse into it completely, and forget the rest of the world. We know just how that feels!
In this list, we have picked out five fantastic series that feature vampires if you want to satisfy yourself by reading about these bloodthirsty creatures.
- Black Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward
What is more exciting than a group of attractive vampires that protect the rest of the vampire world? Not much. In this ongoing vampire romance series, the Brotherhood is a group of six vampires that protect the normal vampires from the vampire hunters and each book focuses on one couple. Besides the brotherhood’s members, several other side characters go on to get their own books, making this series now having 18 books, with more to come. J. R. Ward has given this amazing write up of books with thrilling romances that will make you fall in love, begging for more. In addition, the characters are so complex with interesting backstories and most of them will hook you from the start.
- The Blood Magic by K. A. Young
Initially published on Wattpad, this adult vampire romance series is a multi-generational saga of royal vampires. Like almost all vampire novels, this also has vampires and their hunters. However, vampire hunters are actually descendants of a bond between a pureblood vampire and a human, but now live to exterminate the vampires because of them being human killers. Moreover, some hunters are gifted with a rare trait called the blood magic, which enables them to shape and control blood to their will. In the first book, The Slave That I Am, Annika Larson is a hunter born gifted with the blood magic and living out of the life meant for her, traumatised by seeing her sister die the first time she was out in the field. At her twenty-first birthday, however, she is captured for what she is by Locaine, the Vampire King.
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
In this series by Richelle Mead, the vampires’ Moroi princess, Lissa Dragomir, and her best friend and guardian, Rose Hathaway, are brought back to the Vampire Academy following two years of unexplained disappearance. Back at the Academy, Rose starts training to be a full-fledged guardian to her princess, but things do not go the best way. Lissa shows a strange healing power, there is a psychotic bond between the two girls and there are immortal vampires called Strigoi hell bent on killing the princess. Vampire Academy is a stunning six-book series filled with friendships, vampires, and a forbidden romance.
- The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith
You might be familiar with The CW’s The Vampire Diaries, but its original book series is not that popular. The first book, The Awakening, was published in 1991 and many more followed. It deals with the teenage girl, Elena Gilbert, looking for a thrill in life, who vows to have Stefan, one of the two Salvatore brothers. But enter Damon, the other, more darker brother who enthrals Elena, and voila, you get a wonderful love triangle. If you have seen the television show, don’t feel hesitant to read the books as well, because they are actually quite different and worth the read.
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
This four book series by Stephenie Meyer follows Bella, a high school student who decides to live with her father in Forks, Washington. In school, she notices the Cullen family, decreed by everyone as mysterious. But soon, she develops a strange friendship with the youngest Cullen, Edward. He saves her from an accident without even a scratch and that is when she begins to have doubts about who, or what he is. This starts the irrevocable romance and Bella learns that falling in love with a vampire is not a piece of cake. The audience doesn’t hail the adapted movies as being brilliant but trust me, the books are much better and have the essence of a good vampire romance story.
