By Christina
Every vampire story out there is the same. They get old- no pun intended- and frankly
I’m kinda over them. Evil wants to be
good, good girl falls for bad boy, forbidden love ensues followed by lots of
kinky sex, etc. etc. Only difference so
far is that one sparkled. And let’s face
it…we all all wanted that one
dead. Fairy tales growing up were much
the same for me. With the exception of
the Grimm versions, everything was happy ending and all the Damsels needed
saving from distress. They could have helped
themselves in the time it took them to constantly scream for help; why did those brain-dead chicks never realize this?
Every once in a short while, however, someone gives you back
the spooky and the beautiful. You get
the romance, sure…but it isn’t the main plot point. You get the action, the drama, the horror, the
gore, and occasionally the immortal walks away with the girl. Sometimes you get the Fairy Tale with a great
dark and Gothic twist. A retelling or a
fresh concept where the Princess doesn’t sit on her petticoats, uses her brain for a change,
sacrifices and even suffers losses…and things can go dark very fast before the happy
ending comes close if it even does for anyone except the villain. Or maybe, the villain was the hero of the
fable after all. How cool is that? A world with no Cullen in sight, I say? A world where the Princess picks up her own
sword in a world of dark and macabre fun, I say? You want to know more, you say? Well allow me to elaborate, my friend. Authors Sherrilyn Kenyon and Alethea Kontis
bring these concepts to life in their worlds of the Dark-Hunters and in the
adventures of the Woodcutter sisters in the country of Arilland.
