16 books like Daughter of Darkness

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Silas Marner George Eliot · 1800 · ★ 3.7 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Eliot's touching novel of a miser and a little child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. The gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the town of Raveloe after being falsely accused of a heinous theft. There he begins to find redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child he discovers in his isolated… Shares: Adopted children, Fathers and daughters

The legacy of Cain Wilkie Collins · 1859 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison during the earlier period of my appointment as Governor. Shares: Adopted children, Fathers and daughters

Blood Oath Christopher Farnsworth · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The ultimate secret. The ultimate agent. The President's vampire. Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the president. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound by a special blood oath, Cade has spent more than 140 years in service to the president, battling… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Bloodsucking Fiends Christopher Moore · 1995 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of vampires on the loose and in love in San Francisco. When Jody wakes up in an alley, under a dupster, with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, she knows it isn't going to be… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Love in Vein Poppy Z. Brite · 1994 · ★ 3.1 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Twenty stories of vampiric erotica, or more precisely depravity with sex prominently featured. People are skinned alive and a pair of women make love to a man until he dies. Edited by the author of Drawing Blood. Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

The Nymphos of Rocky Flats Mario Acevedo · 2005 · ★ 3.3 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government . . . Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He'll find out the cause of all these horny women or die trying! But first… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

The Vampire Armand Anne Rice · 1998 · ★ 3.8 · 530p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The previous volume of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, was called 'a modern Paradise Lost' by the Washington Post. Taking the Vampire Lestat from fiction into legend, it left him lying in a New Orleans convent, at the edge of death. Magnificent and electrifying, this new volume in the Vampire Chronicles returns to the glittering story of Armand, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Lover Avenged J. R. Ward · 2009 · ★ 4.4 · 736p · ≈ 24h · Moderate The brothers are back—the latest installment in J. R. Ward’s sizzling #1New York Times bestselling series.J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood novels have introduced readers to a “different, creative, dark, violent, and flat-out amazing” (All About Romance)world. Now, as the vampire warriors defend their race against their slayers, one male’s loyalty to the Brotherhood will be tested—and his… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake) Laurell K. Hamilton · 1996 · ★ 4.2 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Anita Blake has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love affair may kill her yet. Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Hourglass Claudia Gray · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Bianca will risk everything to be with Lucas.After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school where they met, Bianca and Lucas take refuge with Black Cross, a fanatical group of vampire hunters. Bianca must hide her supernatural heritage or risk certain death at their hands. But when Black Cross captures her friend—the vampire Balthazar—hiding is no longer an option.Soon, Bianca… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula Loren D. Estleman · 1978 · ★ 3.4 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its murdered captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passenger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled. Clearly the crew have been murdered and dumped overboard,… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Tempting Evil Keri Arthur · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In a world of sorcery and seduction, the nights bring out the beautiful, the damned, and the desired. Here, Riley Jenson is on her own--half werewolf, half vampire, working for an organization created to police the supernatural races. Trusting her superiors and lovers barely more than she trusts her worst enemies, Riley plays by her own set of rules. Her latest mission: to enter the heavily… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice · 1672 · ★ 4.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Demanding This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Vampire Academy Richelle Mead · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's-the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Black Heart Justin Somper · 2007 · ★ 4.8 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest.Meanwhile, Connor's twin sister Grace enjoys a… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Iron kissed Patricia Briggs · 2008 · ★ 4.4 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. And she'll have to choose between the two werewolves in her life-whether she wants to or not. Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

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