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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9253111" data-attributes="member: 508">I finished Malice and decided I needed a break from my pile of Lisa Jackson thrillers for awhile.&nbsp; So I started up The Accidental Vampire by Lynsey Sands.&nbsp; I'm about 120 pages in (I was reading it on a plane), and it's already got me hooked on the series.&nbsp; Apparently this one is book #7 in her series of vampire novels featuring Argeneau, a vampire who was born in 230 B.C. and now serves as an enforcer of vampire law.&nbsp; The most interesting take: vampires are the result of Atlantean nanobots in the bloodstream, which are powered on blood and &quot;fix&quot; the vampire's shortcomings like disease and aging.&nbsp; But all of the vampire &quot;tropes&quot; - no reflections in mirrors, dislike of holy symbols, can't go out in sunlight, having to sleep in a coffin - none of that's true.&nbsp; The &quot;accidental vampire&quot; is a 62-year-old woman who was turned into a vampire 5 years ago and wasn't properly trained by her vampire sire (she claims she doesn't have one - she has no memory of how she became a vampire), and she now looks like she did when she was 25 and has no idea of what vampire laws she's breaking, like &quot;don't feed on mortals&quot; (she has occasionally in the past) and &quot;don't let mortals know about vampires&quot; (everybody in her small Canadian town knows she's a vampire, but they're all cool with it).&nbsp; So now Argeneau has to try to unravel her story and figure out how to save her from the vampire leadership, who will probably want her killed for her transgressions.&nbsp; (In vampire law as in mortal law, ignorance of the law is no excuse.)Anyway, pretty interesting take.&nbsp; I have two more books in the series (&quot;Vampire, Interrupted&quot; and &quot;Born to Bite&quot;) that I'll probably read next, before going back to my ever-decreasing pile of Lisa Jackson thrillers.&nbsp; (She's a good writer, but she tends to repeat herself over and over in the same novel an awful lot, to the point her books could probably be dozens of pages shorter if she'd just trust the reader not to need reminding about certain plot points over and over by having the hero internally agonize over them all the time.)Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 9253111, member: 508"] I finished [i]Malice[/i] and decided I needed a break from my pile of Lisa Jackson thrillers for awhile. So I started up [i]The Accidental Vampire[/i] by Lynsey Sands. I'm about 120 pages in (I was reading it on a plane), and it's already got me hooked on the series. Apparently this one is book #7 in her series of vampire novels featuring Argeneau, a vampire who was born in 230 B.C. and now serves as an enforcer of vampire law. The most interesting take: vampires are the result of Atlantean nanobots in the bloodstream, which are powered on blood and "fix" the vampire's shortcomings like disease and aging. But all of the vampire "tropes" - no reflections in mirrors, dislike of holy symbols, can't go out in sunlight, having to sleep in a coffin - none of that's true. The "accidental vampire" is a 62-year-old woman who was turned into a vampire 5 years ago and wasn't properly trained by her vampire sire (she claims she doesn't have one - she has no memory of how she became a vampire), and she now looks like she did when she was 25 and has no idea of what vampire laws she's breaking, like "don't feed on mortals" (she has occasionally in the past) and "don't let mortals know about vampires" (everybody in her small Canadian town knows she's a vampire, but they're all cool with it). So now Argeneau has to try to unravel her story and figure out how to save her from the vampire leadership, who will probably want her killed for her transgressions. (In vampire law as in mortal law, ignorance of the law is no excuse.) Anyway, pretty interesting take. I have two more books in the series ("Vampire, Interrupted" and "Born to Bite") that I'll probably read next, before going back to my ever-decreasing pile of Lisa Jackson thrillers. (She's a good writer, but she tends to repeat herself over and over in the same novel an awful lot, to the point her books could probably be dozens of pages shorter if she'd just trust the reader not to need reminding about certain plot points over and over by having the hero internally agonize over them all the time.) Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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