Les Vampires
I finally got the Les Vampires Oracle earlier, and what can I say. It's gonna stay with me, and is definitely in no danger of landing in my Christmas giveaways pile.
It's rather warm and dreamy, and very introspective. I can just contemplate them and I'll be satisfied. I have never been struck with the Twilight mania, and I have never even watched any of the movies beyond the ten-minute mark, so I cannot relate with what you felt Mittkait. Because I look at the characters as being centuries-old, with all the loss and wisdom and clarity it entails. Instead of teenage angst, I see a world-weary melancholy born of centuries and even millenia of watching everyone in an endless cycle of living and preying and exploiting and shaming and dying, in a danse macabre they have no choice but to participate in.
The images themselves remind me of a quite from George MacDonald, which in this case is very apropos:
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy.
I have not yet read the whole book, and I would still have to see how well this one reads. But yeah, this is a gamble that is well worth the risk. For me, Les Vampires is for keeps.