I received a request from a reader for help with finding a specific vampire book. I don’t know what this book might be so I’m putting it out there for the collective wisdom to determine the title. The first person to come up with the correct title will win a copy of The Path of Razors: Vampire Babylon Book 5 by Chris Marie Green.
Adam R. Writes:
Ten or fifteen, or maybe more years ago I read a book that I remember little about other than the fact that I liked it. Other things I remember about the book are: The main character was a vampire (possibly a new vampire or one with amnesia). The main character had conflicts with other vampires in the book. Some vampires in the book kept ghouls, they were dead, stinky, rotting, and fell apart as they aged. I think the book took place in the china town area of some city. I think there was a bit that involved a fat, grotesque creature of some sort in a basement (possibly a big fat vampire, but I’m not sure). Unfortunately that’s about all I can remember, no title or author rings a bell. I would like to buy & read the book again but my internet searches haven’t turned up a book that it might have been yet. I am writing with the hope that maybe you’ve read the same book and can recognize it based on my lame description. If so, could you please tell me what it is, or what you think it might be?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Vicky
Update: Well, since we’re not getting anywhere (sorry Adam). I think I’m going to bring this giveaway to an end. Thanks to those who have offered suggestions. Feel free to continue to comment on this post. Someone may stumble across this in the future and know exactly what book it is.
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August 5th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Hello Adam and Vicky: It sounds like one of the Anita Blake series books to me. I’m also trying to remember a book that I read that was about someone who was looking for someone in china town, and they went into a (pawn shop) store and the old man was in the back dead, there were poison frogs. They jumped on the older man and killed him and one of them took over the person in the store’s body. Does that sound remotely familiar? It kinda put me in mind of what you described.
August 6th, 2009 at 3:45 am
The fat vampire in the basement made me think of Pearl from Blade (film)
Just putting it out there; maybe you got a little mixed up.
Unfortunately, I don’t recognise the decription, but now I want read it!
August 8th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I read a book called fledgling by Octavia E Butler. It’s not as old as your book but I think you will like it from the info you put down for your book. Also there is a website called alibris .com that has alot of vampire books new & old maybe you can find your book there.
August 11th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I know it’s not an Anita Blake book, but it might be a P.N. Elrod book. (Anita dealt with a woman who raised zombies and lived in teh barrio in one book, though.) I think I’ve actually read this one way back when, the Chinatown reference is tinkling a bell, but I can’t put my finger on it. I’ll have to thumb through the book piles and see if I can figure out who it might have been written by.
Now, if the reader could clarify a bit more, as in approximate year it was written, and maybe a few other details, it might help.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Lynn, the book you described sounds like Blood Engines by T. A. Pratt. Here’s a link: http://www.marlamason.net/beexcerpt.html
I have no clue about Adam’s book. Sorry.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
YES! Thank you Dawn. That was driving me crazy. :o)
August 18th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I had completely forgotten the book until seeing the movie Blade. It was actually the character Pearl who triggered what little memory I have of the book, although I’m less convinced that the thing encountered in the “basement” was a vampire as I try to remember more. It may have been something worse. Whatever it was terrified the main character when he stumbled across it & I think it tried to kill him.
As I try to remember more, I also think that my amnesiac theory might be off. I think that the vampire world of the book may have operated loosely like some sort of organized crime family and the main character starts the book as a low-ranking vamp -the equivalent of a street thug or pusher- and he’s happy with that life. Then he accidentally gets caught up in the larger dealings of the vampire underworld and becomes a marked vamp.
p.s. Vicky; Thank you for trying to help me figure this out. It’s like the book is on the tip of my brain & it’s driving me crazy.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
It sounds like Charlie Hustons series