OK, so the Twilight Saga has turned on my interest in vampire romance.  I've picked up the first House of Night novel, and I've reserved the first Vampire Acadamy from the library.  I tried to read Peeps, but it didn't grab me.  I am in the middle of The Ugly's which is pretty fun light reading.

I'm interested in learning about more vampire ROMANCE novels.  I've been looking at an author named Amanda Ashley, but she has so many books I can't figure out what series go together and in what order.

Can anyone help me with Amanda Ashley... and also suggest other authors I might like to try?

Edie

Try here Edie.

Her most recent series:

1. Night's Kiss

2. Night's Touch

3. Night's Master

4. Night's Pleasure

I believe you can get a complete list of her series order on her website.

Here is a link to the Love Vampires website.  They talk about both the horror, the romance, and the urban fantasy vamp books.  To give you some other authors.

http://www.lovevampires.com/index.htm

A few series I love are:

Immortals After Dark by Kresley Cole (MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE)

Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward

The Night Huntress Series by Jeaniene Frost

All amazing series.

After I read Twilight, I started picking up other YA novels to try to get more but they just aren't like Twilight.

The Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward was the first thing I read since reading Twilight that I just absolutely loved in the same way. Read the series next, I doubt you will regret it. I am still finding it hard to find other series that I enjoy as much.

My vote is also for Black Dagger Brotherhood.

You might also try Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series and Lynsay Sands Argeneau Vampire series.  They both have websites if you want to find reading order, etc.

I enjoyed Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series, have read all of them.  Have also read a few by other authors, and did not care enough for them to read others by the same author.

My favorite is Christine Feehan's "Dark" series.  Have almost all of them, a few I had to find at the library as they remain in high demand.  I won't be trading those anytime soon. 

Most of the ones I have read have some of the same things in common:  (1) an explanation of where vampires came from and how new ones are "made" (Kenyon's are not really vampires, they hunt them; Feehan's are a separate race from humans, but sometimes intermarry); (2) how they interact with humans; (3) include characters of other paranormal species like werewolves and other shape-changers; (4) main characters are always extremely attractive and tormented or bitter, and end up "saved" by the love interest; (5) special powers like shape changing, mind-reading, mind-control, time travel, etc.; (6) constant graphically described sex, to the point where I sometimes skip over sections because they tend to use the same language book after book, and I want to see what happens next in the story.

I grew up on horror movies, and enjoy paranormal books very much, it's kind of like reliving good times of childhood, only with a sexy romantic twist.  Hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

I'm pretty new to the paranormal romance scene as well.  I've only been reading them for about a year now.  The first one that I tried was Jeaniene Frost's NIght Huntress Series.  I've read the first 3 and loved each one.  I can't wait for the 4th to come out.  I'm also reading Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Series, although they are more geared toward horror and apprarently get a little erotic later into the series but I haven't gotten that far yet.  The Black Dagger Brotherhood books are amazing as well, and I've been waiting for the 5th book for quite a long time now, everytime it pops up for me I don't have any credits so I have to cancel the order and rewishlist it again, lol.

I personally just started wishlisting the first book in a few series, and ordering some that weren't already wishlisted.  I've gotten into many series now, mostly paranormal (I can never read a series back to back, it drives me crazy so I read a billion at a time and rotate through them all, lol.).  That's how I've found a lot of the authors that I like so much.

I just finished the first book in the Twilight series this week, in a day, and thought it was amazing.  Luckily I have the rest of the series on my bookshelf, because I have a feeling I'll be reading them a little closer together than I normally would.

I love Lora Leigh's Breeds series but they are a bit more sexed up than others.

You can never go wrong with the Carpathians or the Dark Hunters in my opinion. Just those two series could keep you busy for a while if you're not a really fast reader.

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Jocelynn Drake tends to be really boring. I skimmed her first book because it was so boring.

i liked Jocelynn Drake's first book a lot, and am hoping to get the second one sometime soon.