Immortal: Love Stories with Bite

These books with several short-stories are a little bit difficult to rate. I loved the Richelle Mead story, and if she wrote more about the characters in a series of it's own, I'd buy it and read it for sure.

Cast's story was OK too. ( )

I really liked this book it open up an intrest in authors I never really thought twice about looking into but after this book I'll be pick up some of those authors books... ( )

Immortal, edited by P.C. Cast, is worth buying even if just for P.C. Cast’s initial essay on that thing teenagers seem to have with vampires. Not just lust nor raging hormones, she identifies some fascinating points of contact between teen reader and vampire lore, and leaves this long-gone teen thinking yeah, that does make sense. And then there’s the stories.

I enjoyed this introduction to a fine mix of authors: Kristin Cast writing on her own to combine vampire and other ancient myths into an intriguing whole; Tannith Lee viewing the stranger at the party through strangely well-trained eyes; Rachel Caine creating a curiously disturbing little world in Morganville; Cynthia Leitich Smith’s truly haunting Haunted Love; Nancy Holder’s scarily post-apocalyptic New York; Richelle Mead’s odd story of vampires and men with its underlying commentary about the fate of the “different”; and finally Claudia Gray’s strange trip to New Orleans.

The stories are fun, nicely collected, neatly disturbing and intriguing. And okay, I’m not a teen and never will be again, but I really enjoyed the book. ( )

Anthology meant for teens...very quick reads ( )

Rated 4/5 by Vamps R Us. For full review, please see our blog (http://vampsrus.blogspot.com/2010/01/review-haunted-love.html). ( )