>Yeah, I'd sure call it fantasy...her arcs involve fey, vampires, psychics, >witches, "Shadowmen", ghosts, and shapeshifters. Like a >younger Laurell K. Hamilton, without all the sex *chuckle* >There are other series, Vampire Diaries happened to be the first I came up > >I'd even say Yarbro is fantasy, albeit maybe too old... Humm, interesting. You are the second person to ever have mentioned this series to me, before it was my (emmm, my paternal? blood-related? actual? -- someone please give me a better word for this, as I am at a loss right now) brother when I was first beginning to read "darker" (to use a word my father might)-fiction. My brother recommended it as light-gothic style-"whatever you want to call non-disgusting"-horror, as at the time that was where my interest lied. Of course though, being that my brother recommended it, and even worse my YOUNGER brother recommended it, I never gave it a chance. I think the first things I found to my liking were Yarbro, McKee's "Unicorn Tapestry", followed by Anne Rice *ducking and cringing before someone slaps me for this last one*, but then I was a very strange 14 year old. Though, now that the "adolescent competition" between my brother and I is over, and you recommend it, (even if as something for a younger person), and he had recommended it (and I have learnt NEVER to question something my brother recommends because he is pretty much always right about everything), perhaps I will go back and give it a shot and then pass it on to my step-brother. If nothing else, it may be something to read after studying and before bed when my mind is too full of information to comprehend much of anything. Thanks. =) _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail