A more realistic view of vampires and their human counterparts ~
Poppy Z. Brite is probably best known for his Lost Souls book, but I think that this one is even better. After working my way through Anne Rice’s work years ago, I was feeling a bit overstimulated with the overemotional characters who hated what they were. When I needed it, in came Poppy Z. Brite through a secondhand bookstore… the kind where you have to dig through the piles just to see the titles on the spines. I really appreciated Brite’s more realistic representation of both the vampire realm and the humans the vampires interact with, though it is a matter of personal preference. Brite seems to have an issue with killing off female characters or making them into awful people in his other works, but this book broke the mold and it is one that has stayed with me through the years.