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Vampires, Witches and Werewolves...in love!
Peter Principle
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I remember reading about a series of books that was aimed at the tweens/young adult market and the central theme was about an alternate world where magic and vampires and werewolves exist and they're like teenages in love and that sort of thing. I was thinking that my daughter (11, soon to be 12) might like this series, but I can't for the life of me remember where I read about this or more importantly what the name of the books or series or the author was. Also, would this be an appropriate book for someone in that age group? I'd rather not buy her a bodice ripper, but I'm pretty sure this series of stories is pretty tame.
Help with ID'ing this series and if it's age appropriate, please?
Help with ID'ing this series and if it's age appropriate, please?
"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business." - Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer_
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_series
I haven't read it myself, so I couldn't say whether or not it was appropriate. ;-)
Kid going to school for special effects, father (or grandfather?) was a real magician, there are ghosts involved. I do remember enjoying it.
I remember that!
Anyone read Creepsville, the series that was kinda like Goosebumps but way better, by Christopher Pike? I liked that. Was pretty cool
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A quick google search came up with "Women of the Otherworld" series by Kelley Armstrong
here is the wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_Otherworld
It pretty much describes what you are talking about. I hope that is it, Peter.
Well.. um... ok. I can see that.
Yep, it's the Twilight series. OK for younger kids?
My 11 yr old sister loves it. I was surprised how thick that book was when she showed it to me. I bought it and the 2nd book in the series for her. She was very happy.
Not sure about the content. I do know a big fan of the series, and have had to put up with her whining for a few weeks: The author recently threw a fit that a proofreader leaked spoilers for the next book in the series and is refusing to finish it (despite movie deals and so forth). Not sure if I'd recommend getting into the series under the circumstances.
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Oh, and there are vampires and werewolves in it, both.
Perfect.
It's mainly written as an excuse to describe Edward's (the sexy vampire dude dating the main character) muscles, hair, etc. Nothing inappropriate. Okay, maybe it's not mainly written for that, but as a 19 year old male I'm obligated to hate it!
Snap, my sister reads this stuff.
Can I get an example?
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
Even if it's vapid bullshit?
Honestly, have you seen some of the fans and how twisted these girls get? There's no way I'd let my daughter or son read that crap. I read the first book and I felt dirty. Really dirty. It's not the best track to get your kid who's just starting to really read as a past-time on. The vocabulary is not "highbrow" or the like, it's pretty plain and simple and the characters are woefully boring and amazingly perfect.
Get her to read something decent, as a 10 year old when I really started reading I started out with Northern Lights, and subsequently Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass which makes up the trilogy of Northern Lights. That gently eased me into reading very nicely and I've been an avid reader ever since, and it's not just for boys it's pretty unisex.
Here's an example of the awful purple prose: The bouquets of brilliant anemones undulated ceaselessly in the invisible current…
Honestly, Twilight Saga is trash. Nevermind the plethora of 14 year old girls creaming themselves ove Edward Cullen.
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Sorry if I come across a little overbearing and aggressive, but I REALLY dislike this series and feel it is most undeserving of the attention and popularity it's gaining.
And ha, Christopher Pike. My brother was an avid fan of the Last Vampire.
Is it really that graphic? I mean, if books are too safe, they're not fun to read for kids. Like, some dude in the last Chronicles of Narnia book gets gored by a Unicorn and I read that when i was nine or ten.
I know I read Hardy Boys and Goosebumps when I was a kid, and those weren't exactly Pulitzer Prize winners.
Same here. I read tons of "fluff" books in middle school as a kid, but that sparked my love for reading and got me used to actually reading. I remember actually reading instead of watching tv.
Just for the love of God and All things Holy, not Twilight.
Anything but that.
Agreed.
The prose style is nonexistent, and half the "romance" scenes are just copy-pasted and chiefly distinguished by being scenes in which the same words are used to describe physical attributes over and over and over. I haven't read the second book, but the first one did get much better once the shit hit the fan about 2/3 of the way through. All in all, it bore a striking resemblance, in plot structure, to a shoujo manga.
I don't really like dark books though, maybe it's just me but even if they're terrible I find them hard to get out of my head, and Twilight was no exception. Also, I'm 22. So my projected assumption is that young girls shouldn't read this.
The problem with Twilight is not so much the gore (at least the first book had little of it) as the fact that it reads like a fanfiction. That is to say, when reading it it just feels like you're lost in this meandering plot that's getting all the right hooks so you're totally into it but is basically going nowhere fast, events don't always build on each other, and keeps teasing at stuff that never quite happens. Reading it is like how I imagine purgatory, and this is what chiefly makes the experience dark - not the content. I find that this feeling actually messes with my state of mind in an undesirable way, hence my recommendation.
But really, my fears are probably unfounded. I read a lot of shit novels when I was young (Young Jedi Knights anyone?) that I eventually recognized to be terrible on my own.
This pretty much describes Fanny Hill, which is widely considered great classical literature.
I swear, I'd read the words "marvelous machine of the gender" entirely too many times before I finished that paper.
It was alright. Not great, I would say highly readable though, in the same vein of Harry Potter in that a lot of fluff is gone and fairly lean (I grew up on Tolkien). I felt the characters were highly unrealistic, like someone said, they were all perfect. A lot of the book just describing how beautiful this dude is, I guess that's why girls like it. I'm not sure 11 is a great age for it, I'd say 13 and up. I was personally disappointed at the lack of sex in there, right I'm to believe a vampire stuck in his teens for hundreds of years doesn't want to get it on with this girl? Bullshit. I guess that's good for the target audience though.
I have a cousin that's like 15 maybe? I dunno, anyways she loves the series. I'm sure it would be a welcome gift, though I'd recommend Harry Potter if it hasn't been read yet, though later on they get dark too.
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Basically any character that is obviously written by the author solely as wish fullfillment.
Han solo?
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Skywalker is the more blatant Mary Sue (uh, Gary Stu is the male version I think?).
My wife - supervisor at a Borders who is obsessed with these - says the main character is 17, and it's more appropriate for kids closer to that age, but could work for as young as 11 or 12. The fourth book is a bit edgier. They're categorized as YA - young adult - which is intended for middle school/high school.