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What to read after “A Dowry of Blood” by S.T. Gibson: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice · 1985
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Gothic”
Lestat de Lioncourt, the vampire who once narrated Interview with the Vampire, tells his own story: a boy of the Auvergne who fled to Paris for the stage, was taken by an ancient vampire, and rose to become a rock star, awakening forces older than any of his kind.
2
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice · 1976
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Gothic”
A young interviewer listens as the vampire Louis tells the story of his long life: turned by the powerful Lestat, endlessly hunting to survive, and raising the child vampire Claudia with him in a small, doomed family.
3
Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
Gabrielle hides in Boston, painting by day and avoiding the vampires who killed her family. When she witnesses a battle between the Breed warrior Lucan and his enemies, she is pulled into the Midnight Breed's hidden war and a dangerous attraction to an assassin sworn to hunt his own kind.
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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · 2022
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
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Dark Lover
J. R. Ward · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Wrath, the vampire king of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, never planned to care for a mortal. When he promises a dying comrade to watch over the man's half-human daughter, Beth, their growing bond pulls them both into the Brotherhood's hidden war with the slayers hunting their kind.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black · 2013
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.
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Sunshine
Robin McKinley · 2003
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Rae Seddon, a baker called Sunshine, is captured by vampires at her family's lake cabin and learns she carries magic of her own. Bound to a vampire who should be her enemy, she is pulled into a war among the Others, the supernatural beings living beside humans.
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A Hunger Like No Other
Kresley Cole · 2006
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Immortal Protagonist
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
9
Halfway to the Grave
Jeaniene Frost · 2007
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
- Morally Grey Character
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
10
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
From the same world: “Vampires” and “Gothic”
- Vampires
- Gothic
In a lonely Styrian castle, Laura longs for companionship. A carriage accident brings Carmilla, a charming guest her own age, to stay with the family. As Laura's health fades and strange dreams visit her at night, she begins to suspect that her new friend is not what she seems.
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The Darkest Night
Gena Showalter · 2008
Similar plot moves: “Dark Romance” and “Immortal Protagonist”
Cursed to carry the demon of Violence, the immortal warrior Maddox has spent lifetimes in torment. Every night he dies at the hands of the gods, and every dawn he wakes. Rescuing a mortal woman named Ashlyn from his enemies throws them both into a conflict that could free or destroy him.
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005
From the same world: “Vampires”
- Vampires
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.