BenBella Books, 2008
ISBN: 978-193561801-0
Available: New
The first book in the Love Stories with Bite anthology collections is Immortal, edited by P.C. Cast, and chock full of vampire stories written by some of today’s finest authors. This collection includes tales from Rachel Caine, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Claudia Gray, Richelle Mead, Nancy Holder, Rachel Vincent, Tanith Lee, and Kristen Cast. P.C. Cast gives a fantastic introduction full of insight into the genre’s appeal and laced throughout with her legendary humor. The introduction segues perfectly into the first tale by Cynthia Leitich Smith, “Haunted Love,” a love story in which a haunted theater is the setting for supernatural revenge. Another fantastic inclusion is Rachel Vincent’s “Binge,” in which mythological muses and sirens, living in the present day, must feed on humans to survive, at a cost. “Blue Moon” by Richelle Mead gives us a world in which vampires and human co-exist; albeit, not necessarily happily, but one young vampire has the power to change all that, provided her own family doesn’t kill her first.
Chances are likely that you already have this in your collection, but if you don’t, you need to get it. Your vampire readers are going to eat it up (pun intended) and ask for more, which you can provide with the second title in the Love Stories with Bite anthology: Eternal. Highly recommended for public or school libraries in the young adult fiction collection. This is a young adult title that would work well for age ranges of 14-18, but adult readers who enjoy vampire romances would also enjoy this title.
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Reviewed by: Kelly Fann