Vampire

Whether you are Team Edward or Team Jacob, Team Angel or Team Spike there is one thing that all of these fans have in mutual and that is passion, passion for the characters and stories that make up the two most ordinary contributions to the pop culture of vampires in the last 20 years. With that passion, as is oftentimes the case, comes debate and controversy.

In 2008, the film adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s book Twilight was freed catapulting the series of books written by Stephanie Meyer off the charts. The Twilight craze had begun and fans all over the country devoured as much of the books, films, soundtracks and merchandise as possible. The series itself is four books, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.

There was another group of fans, a more or less older fan-base, that reacted with annoyance at the fans of the new craze claiming that this was not one thing new, the storylines now famous bore a striking resemblance to the vampire culture that they had known and loved for 10-plus years, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the TV series written by Joss Whedon, ran for seven seasons from 1997 through 2003. Gradually, the Buffy community started out to grow ever more irritated at the attention being received by the Twilight series and the Twilight fans became evenly as irritated claiming that the Twilight series was both dissimilar and superior to the Buffy series.

Twilight

While the Twilight craze was initiated by the release of the films, there was a big fan-base that was already in place; the books themselves had already generated a huge following of committed fans. I ought to warn the reader that I don’t consider someone a Twilight fan if they haven’t read the books, while the films are great; I am always biased towards the book in almost each case. Whenever a book is adapted for film there is always so much material that is left out. The books chronicle the story of Bella Swan and her arrival in the town of Forks. She meets a young man named Edward who has a secret. The two of them fall in love and have to deal with the aftermaths affiliated to friends, family, society and Edward’s secret.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The Buffy The Vampire Slayer series chronicles the story of Buffy Summers, a girl with a secret, and her arrival in the town of Sunnydale. She meets a young man named Angel who has a secret. The two of them fall in love and have to deal with the aftermaths related to friends, destiny, fate and their respective secrets.

Stephanie Meyer maintains that she had never seen Buffy The Vampire Slayer prior to writing her series. The creation of the Twilight world started out when she had a dream when it comes to the two main characters and a dialog that they have, which sparked the novels, the world and pop culture. While there is no reason to disbelieve Stephanie Meyer, there are a heap of substantial matchings amidst the two series.

** Warning: The remainder of this article will cover content from both series that would be considered a spoiler if you have not read all of the Twilight Series or seen the entire Buffy The Vampire Slayer series.**

Buffy Summers and Bella Swan, both independent strong young women. Each of them are deposited into a new town and left to climb the mountain of integrating into a new school, making new friends and adjusting to life with a single parent.

• Buffy falls in love with a vampire named Angel, Bella falls in love with a Vampire named Edward.
• The Buffy series had a werewolf named Oz who was part of the main cast of characters. Jacob is the werewolf in the Twilight Series.
• Both of the female leads have a best friend (female) with supernatural powers.
• Both series have a supernatural governing body, which sets rules for the worlds that they live in and disapproves of the kinship amidst vampire and human.
• In each series there is a male vampire and his female associate who come to town to stir up trouble.
• The topic of forbidden love, betrayal, and heartbreak are prevalent in both.
• The best-guy friend of the female lead is a victim of unrequited love.

The list of correspondings goes on for rather a while longer, however, the point has been made.

In spite of all of the similarities, there are numerous ways in which the two storylines deviate.

• Buffy has supernatural powers from the introduction of her reputation and struggles with a dual identity through the entire series. Her life is a neverending struggle amid fate, fate and free will. Bella does not come into full realization of her supernatural abilities until near the end of the series. While her story does not deal with such adverse ideas like fate and destiny, hers is more of a story of love, romance and family.
• Buffy is never capable to make her kinship with Angel work and while he will always be the love of her life, their kinship will never be completely realized. Bella and Edward at the end of the series find them selves in love, happy, with a daughter and an eternity laid out before them.
• Buffy on a almost on a weekly basis basis finds herself in the midst of a battle in which the fate of the world rests in the balance. Bella may feel many times times that the world is ending but in reality the scope of her activenesses does not extend too far outside of Forks.
• Buffy is a hero, with that comes struggle, resolve, failure and redemption. Bella is a teenager, relatable, fallible, and her reputation is invented intensely allround the series.

In my mind, the verdict is simple, Twilight is not a remake, nor did Buffy The Vampire Slayer largely inspire it. While there may be numerous correspondings in the details of the characters and plot parts that may effortlessly be explained by the genre in which the stories where based. When you write stories in regards to vampires in innovative day times, when your lead is a teenage female, it will have to be expected that some of the same plot gimmicks will be present in both. When analyzing the rites of passage and the inner workings of love in youth it is no wonder that the stories unfold in similar ways after all Buffy and Bella are both human.

The overarching storyline of Buffy The Vampire Slayer is that of a young woman who was destined by fate to be a hero. She struggles with the dual identity of being a normal girl who wants to fall in love and the Slayer who carries the obligation of protecting the world from unimaginable evil. The Twilight series is a reputation study of a young teenager caught up in a star-crossed love affair. However, discounting either story because of it is matching to former works sets a scary precedent for innumerable great works of fiction. Over and over again we see stories with storylines that closely mirror and are inspired by other works. Some of them have come to be mileposts of ordinary culture. The Harry Potter series, the Inheritance series and even the Star Wars series are all rooted in creative writing of recognized artisti value that predates when it was written. It doesn’t negate the value or the amusement inherent in those works. We are all inspired each and everyday by things that we see, read, and hear. Our lives are the sum of our experiences and as writers take experiences and use them to inspire their work it is still valuable, still agreeably diverting and still honest.

Why ought to there be a choice? Why ought to you be on Team Buffy or Team Twilight? I for one am a huge fan of both series. I think they are fantastic stories full of elaborated characters, and deal with issues that are far reaching beyond the superficial layer of entertainment, that ought to be what you take away from either series. That is what has generated fans on both sides that part one thing in common, passion.

Vampire

All Lady Glynis Wright ever wanted was the freedom to live her life as she pleased. Unfortunately, her aristocratic parents want her to marry well and settle into a life of luxury. When her family becomes guests to one of the most fearsome and powerful vampires of all time, Glynis finds her fate is far more terrible than an arranged marriage. Trapped in the power of her new master, she fights for freedom, revenge versus her creator, and the probability to be with the one she veritably loves. Bloody, horrific, romantic and rich in gothic atmosphere, The Tale of the Vampire Bride is sure to sudden intense sensation fans of the terrible, yet romantic vampires of literary past.

Review“Violence, sensuality, tense conflict and intense drama roll at full speed versus the backdrop of romantic Old Europe… Frater’s novel has managed to be almost everything to each vampire fan, a feat not effortlessly pulled off.” –Dark Markets

“I in truth enjoyed this distinguishable take on Count Dracula. The characters were very well written and without apparent effort believable in their environments. I was pulled into this story and didn’t want to stop reading.” –Bitten by Books

It’s a beautiful, poetic, horrendous story which showcases all the things I love with regards to vampires: their beauty, their powers, their weaknesses. –Nicole Hadaway, author of Release

 ”It was a book filled with twists and turns, and the narrative wholly sucked me into Glynis’s world.” –Linda’s Extraordinary Book Blog

About the AuthorRhiannon Frater works and lives in Austin, Texas. She became an Independent Author at the urging of her husband. She loves reading, movies, gaming, and hanging out with friends and family when she’s not tapping away at her computer on her latest story. She also loves hearing from her fans and tries to respond to every one who emails her. She is the author of the As The World Dies Zombie Trilogy and the progressed day vampire novel, Pretty When She Dies.

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19 of 22 persons found the following review helpful.
Don’t bother with this review – BUY THIS BOOK
By Alucard
I have been a huge vampire fan even before Anne Rice thought when it comes to her clan. I have probably read more vampire books than any other genre. Before I go forward, you need to know that I did read Twilight, hated it, and refuse to read any of the others (so if you like that series, pass on by). All of that said, I feel that this is the most stimulating vampire book since the early Lestat books (the primary two). The author’s style is similar to Anne Rice’s early works in that she actually transports you to another time that is so rich in detail you feel like you are in truth there. She also is competent to take potentially stale Dracula characters and breath more life into them then even Bram Stoker did. While I enjoyed Dracula the Undead, now that I have read this I realize how lame that “offical” sequel was. I have never written a review for Amazon but feel compelled to get the word out on this one. Just Buy it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
elegant writing – This will not be the only time I read this novel
By EvilolivE
I would put this book on par with Stoker’s Dracula. It’s just supurb. This is unquestionably one of my very favored vampire novels (and that says a lot, because as of today, I have read 152 vampire novels)

However, I in truth don’t think the cover is fitting for this novel. The novel is mature, graceful – in later years, it will have to be a “classic” of vampire literature. I think it deserves a mature, refined and tasteful cover. I’m not saying the cover art is bad, it just produces the wrong impression when it comes to this novel. This novel would be loved by readers who get enjoyment from Anne Rice’s earlier work, and more classic-type creative writing of recognized artisti value like Stoker, George Martin’s Fevre Dream, and Jemiah Jefferson’s Fiend – but I fear that these readers will take one look at the cover and dismiss it as a young adult book, or to be similar to stuff like Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries.

Anyway, I HIGHLY commend this book to any person who is looking for a mature, well-written vampire story. I just couldn’t put this book down.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Unexpectedly Good Book!
By Athena Smith
I was skeptical when it comes to reading this book because I didn’t want to read another typical vampire book BUT I am glad I gave it a chance! I got a free sample on my kindle. It was a little slow at first, but by the time I got done with the sample I was hooked and purchased the full version! I finished it w/in 24 hours! Great read! I had come all over this book because I had not so long ago read the author’s zombie trilogy. She does a outstanding occupation with both!

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