bookgazing | Cat Love and Vampire Blood

I’m seeing ‘Eclipse’ a week to day. Yes, I am excited ok? Have you seen the trailer bit where Jacob slams his fist into his shiny motorbike? For the rest of the trailer I forgot that he is a total loserboy in ‘Eclipse’ and was attracted to his ruggedness all over again – the films heal my problems with the books with hotness and not being the original source material (also by putting Muse in the soundtrack). Still I think we could all probably do with a bit of an antidote to the Eclipse-fest destined to run across our blogging world so I present:

The ‘Damn it, vampires shouldn’t sparkle’ modern canon

A round up of some recent anti-sparkle vampire tales that seem to react to the sparklepire* empire.

'Fat Vampire' – Adam Rex

'The Coldest Girl in Coldtown' – Holly Black (free short story, so good)

Blood Ninja – Nick Lake

'Life Sucks' – Gabe Soria, Jessica Abel, Matt Maden

'The Reformed Vampire Support Group' – Catherine Jinks

'Skarlet' – Thomas Emerson

Others have suggested:

'Peeps' - Scott Westerfeld

'Night Road' - A.M. Jenkins

Feel free to make suggestions for the canon. The only condition is that your suggestions must have come out after or around the time ‘Twilight’ was first published.

And a story about a Cullen related cat, because sometimes in life looking at a cat keeps you from going on a rage rampage.

* which may be cleolinda’s very own copywrighted term