Memphis Reads Archive

Since the movie recently came out on DVD and with many fans having finished the series, Beth from Highland Branch Library recommends the following titles for readers who enjoyed Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT.

Anderson, M.T. THIRSTY
From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

Bray, Libba. A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England after many years in India to attend a finishing school. There she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Cole, Stephen. WOUNDED
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure.

Cruz, Melissa De La. BLUE BLOODS
A group of teenagers from some of New York City’s wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

Hahn, Mary Downing. LOOK FOR ME BY MOONLIGHT
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

Jones, Frewin. THE FAERIE PATH
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania.

Klause, Annette Curtis. THE SILVER KISS
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother’s terminal illness.

Pierce, Meredith Ann. THE DARKANGEL
The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him.

Schreiber, Ellen. VAMPIRE KISSES
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

Smith, Cynthia Leitich. TANTALIZE
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas threaten the grand re-opening of her adopted family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love-interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.

Smith, L.J. THE VAMPIRE DIARIES SERIES
The tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

Vande Velde, Vivian. COMPANIONS OF THE NIGHT
When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

Westerfeld, Scott. PEEPS
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

Labels: Reviews by Beth, Young Adult