My Wife is an avid reader, while I am not so that makes getting her books somewhat difficult, but I know she wants to expand her library some.
Her favorite books are:
– 50 Shades of Gray trilogy (she’s read it 3-4 times)
– Hunger Games series
– Divergent series
– Twilight series (she’s read it 2-3 times)
– Vivy Light Novel series
– Secrets of the Silent Witches light move series
I know she has seen the Vampire Diaries show, The Originals and Legacies. So I was thinking the Vampire Diaries books, has anyone seen the show and read these books and have a preference or any distinct differences that one does better or worse than the other?
I was also thinking “The Southern Vampire Mysteries” as the show True Blood is based off of them. While she hasn’t seen that show, I thought it might be a semi-close combination of 50 Shades and Twilight.
She is not a fan of manga, the reading backwards isn’t her favorite, but she is fine with light novels. She does own the Quintessential Quintuplets and Demon Slayer manga collections, but I know she does not want more.
by TenragZeal
3 Comments
maybe the ACOTAR series?
The Vampire Diaries books aren’t great. They are very high school and silly. The show just used the character’s names as a jumping off place. Of the two I’d definitely do the True Blood books because they were really fun. I’d also throw in these as contenders too:
The Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe Neill
Dark Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
The Hollows series by Kim Harrison
A Discovery of Witches series
The Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh
Black Dagger Brotherhood series (I wasn’t crazy about these but I also didn’t like 50 Shades…so these might be a good fit for her)
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening by L.J. Smith
There should be an omnibus of the TVD. Also, if she enjoys Harris and L.J. Smith, both authors wrote other series.
*
Based on the rest of the books you mentioned, try:
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Alanna by Tamora Pierce
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Chalice by Robin McKinley
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Written in Red by Anne Bishop
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh
Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews
Dark Lover by J.R. Ward