The Allure of the Vampire
In recent years, the popularity of the
vampire has gone from strength to strength. Even when people claim that the
vampire is ‘over’, shows like ‘True Blood’ and ‘The Vampire Diaries’ only
increase in popularity.
My own love affair with the vampire began
as a teen. My long-haired, older boyfriend sat me down to watch ‘Interview with
the Vampire.’ The moment Louis (Brad Pitt) walked on screen, my heart was lost.
Pale, pouty, and full of the angst I was going through at the time, I knew I
would never think of vampires in the same way again.
Since then, several other fictional
vampires have caught my attention, though perhaps I never quite lost my heart
to them in the same way. There was David (Kiefer Sutherland) in ‘The Lost Boys’
who was the ultimate vampire bad boy. No soft center in that one! More recently
Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) in ‘The Vampire Diaries’ and Eric Northman
(Alex Skarsgard) in ‘True Blood’ have had me glued to the small screen (and I’m
sure I don’t need to explain my reasons why!).
So what is it about vampires that have so
many of us captivated? There is no question that a vampire feeding is an
extremely intimate moment. The idea of another creature needing us so badly
that they would die without what we could provide them with (blood) perhaps
gives us a sense of being needed and desired. A vampire’s strength allows us to
submit without being given any other choice, because as much as we women love
to be independent, who doesn’t want a beautiful, dangerous, and impossibly
strong man declaring his un-dying love? We want to feel as though true love
could be forever, and a vampire offers that level of commitment. Let’s face it,
when the vampires of our dreams fall in love, they fall hard.
Because I’ve always loved vampires, I knew
I wanted to write a vampire story but I didn’t want to write the usual ‘female
human gets swept away by handsome, powerful vampire’. I wanted my novel to be
about the journey of the main character, Serenity, growing from a place of
weakness, emotionally, to one of strength.
As for my vampire, Sebastian, he needs to
kill to survive, but he loves Serenity deeply and would sacrifice everything
for her. I hear from readers almost every day now and the thing I hear the most
is how much people love Sebastian. He’s sexy, a little dangerous, and
completely in love with one woman.
The perfect vampire.
You can buy Marissa's books here:
You can stalk Marissa here:
Thanks for hosting me Brittany!
ReplyDelete