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Blood Kisses, Blood Tears (with chapter poems)

Vampires and Chocolate #1 / 8
by Karinn Martel
Blood Kisses, Blood Tears (with chapter poems) (Vampires and Chocolate #1) by Karinn Martel
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Charlie is a 44 year old woman who can't seem to get herself out of the same boring day-to-day rut she has put herself into, until a group of strangers come into her life from her long ago past to not only change her perspective on herself and all mankind, but to also change her into something even she didn't believe could exist.

Unbeknownst to Charlie, when she opened her door to her best and only friend Sue, that it would be one of the last days she would know as a human. Two days later, she goes to a party and meets the man of Sue's dreams but who turns out to be the man of Charlie's nightmares. When Charlie wakes up to find strangers in her home who inform her of what she has become, she barely holds onto her sanity. She learns that a vast and intriguing group of people from history, dating back to Adam and directly linked to her and her bloodline, had been given the gift of immortality for one purpose only. To protect her and her rare unique blood.She also learns that not only is she the first triling to have ever been created, thanks to her new friends, it is legend that she will be the one to save mankind after learning how her third blood type will let her change into an animal form. Along the way she makes friends with others from her past who have traveled many lifetimes just for the day she would be 'born'. But there is also a horde of enemies who want nothing more than to stop her, preferably by death. Her only gift after being turned seems to be immortality as she remains completely human. Will this be enough to stop them?

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Release date: November 2010

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Karinn Martel

Karinn Martel

Miss Martel was born in Manitoba, Canada, to a mixed heritage of Ojibway and French parents. Her parents moved the family to Ontario when she was eleven and she remains there to this day. In the small town of Cambridge, Ontario, she decided to sit down and write a book when the ideas in her head would not leave her alone. Forty-four hours later, she had the first draft of the first book of her Vampires and Chocolate series. In less than three years, she has added to the series with another six full length novels, with still more to come.

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The genre of vampires has never been told like this before. Miss Martel has shown us what a real vampire is. They are not made of marble nor do they glow or sparkle. They are just like the rest of us, which makes them that much more interesting and deadly. They could be in your neighbourhood and you would never know.

Her take on the world and where it will go leaves us to question our own mortality, and that of the planet. She touches on everyday life questions and how the average person would deal with it, relating to most who have read the series so far. Hate it or love it, the reader will find something about themselves in the books. They can relate to Charlie, the lead character, because unlike most other vampire themed books, she is an average woman and average women can see themselves in her place.

Her series is world-wide in popularity, especially in the UK, and she has sold thousands of her books so far. There are NO paperback versions available of book 1 anymore; they are ONLY on Amazon at the moment. Any comments made about any of her books regarding spelling errors have been fixed for each book. She takes everything reviewers say and tries to fix annoying things she may have overlooked. She wants to make sure that all of her fans have a great read!

She started writing in 2010 from a need by women to have a more realistic vampire series. She has released 7 books so far with another 6 to be released in the future because of a demand for her series to continue.

Miss Martel has started venturing into the YA market and is beginning to release books for her young fans too. "I wanted to get some books out in the market that combine being a preteen and growing up in a world surrounded by ghosts and other things that go bump in the night. I love putting the super natural spin on everyday lives to see how they react."

Vampires and Chocolate

Vampires and Chocolate consists of eight books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Blood Kisses, Blood Tears (with chapter poems) (Vampires and Chocolate #1)
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Eisald and the Dark Twins (Vampires and Chocolate #2)
Unrated
The Seven (Vampires and Chocolate #3)
Unrated
Remembering the Future (Vampires and Chocolate #4)
Unrated
Ascension of the Heavenly Banished (Vampires and Chocolate #5)
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The Last Eden (Vampires and Chocolate #6)
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The Search for Charlemagne (Vampires and Chocolate #7)
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Beta (Vampires and Chocolate #8)
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