Melody Writes

Vampire Hunters combines several things that I love - found fiction, creepy atmosphere, history, and monstrous vampires. This collection is dark, gripping, and genuinely scary. Beginning in ancient Greece and continuing to the modern day, these twenty-two tales offer a rich variety of vampire lore told through a collection of letters and diary entries compiled over the centuries. Presenting the stories as historical records only adds to the unsettling nature of the work and adds a sense of realism few books possess. Tying all these stories together is a sort of bonus tale. The book is divided into sections and at the front of each one is correspondence from one curator to the next. The main difficulty with found fiction is the question of “why was this recorded”? The individual stories do a good job of this on their own. This framing story really adds to the suspension of disbelief that this is a real curated history. This is an excellent anthology for vampire fans of all types. I do r...

  Vampire War is about a future where the entire world has been overrun by feral vampires. The remnants of humanity live in a giant airship that flies around in perpetual sunlight. The series follows Alex Goddard and her team, friends, and enemies as they work to protect humanity and solve the mystery of the vampire apocalypse over six action-packed books. I had an absolute blast with this series. Someone, please, pick this up as either a set of action movies, or better yet, an X-COM style video game. Cruising around the world in an airship fighting vampires? Sign me up! I listened to the first few books on audio, but was so excited to see what came next, that I switched over to e-book to get through them faster. Since I burned through them so quickly, it's going to be easier for me to write a full series review rather than parse out each individual book. I'm going to keep this mostly spoiler-free like a regular review and only hint at plot points in the later books. However, s...