Evening,

I there a series something like Twilight. My two daughters have ripped thru the series in record time so i thought i would ask if someone could recommend a series along the same story line i can get for them?

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead.

Young adults fiction, supposed to be good. Haven't read them but my younger sister has and she rather enjoyed them

Cheers,
PKFFW

City of Bones series seems to be trying to make a play to be the next big teen urban fantasy fiction. Haven't read it myself.

Mel

I really like the vampire genre and loved the Twilight series (ok, not so much the last book). A couple other similar series that your daughters might enjoy are --

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. I really liked this series also. It has vampires, romance, and lot's of action.

The Morganville Vampire series by Rachel Caine is also pretty good. Once again romance, vampires, lots of action.

I didn't care for House of Night by P.C. Cast (I read the first 3 books) or the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris (I only read one).

Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz and The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith look like they might be good, but the series isn't available as ebooks so I haven't read them.

These books are all YA books and contain some mild sexual content (the House of Night a little more so). For a more adult type book the Anne Rice vampire and witch books are by far my favorites.

If you are looking for reading for young adults and not yourself you should not bother with Charlaine Harris' books as they contain plenty of sex and violence. A weak yet somewhat enjoyable copy of Anne Rice works (which can be very dark).

I see you have a Sony, does the Sony site have a young adult genre? If not you can go to Amazon and look at the ebooks under young adults. Many have reader comments. Amazon also has a segment on series.

For teen girls, I can recommend

The "Uglies" series by Scott Westerfeld. (Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras)
The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing)
A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black (Valiant, Tithe, and Ironside)
Safe-Keepers by Sharon Shinn (The Safe-Keeper's Secret, The Truth-Teller's Tale, and Dream-Maker's Magic


I would not recommend the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series for teens -- much too much sex for my taste.

I would not recommend the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series for teens -- much too much sex for my taste.

I'd agree with that as well. (I meant to mention it in my first post and forgot.)

I really enjoyed the first book in Melissa Marr's YA fairie series...Wicked Lovely. There are three books (and yes, the other two are on my extensive digital "to be read" pile!)

So, I only struggled through the first 1/3 of Twilight myself although my wife and daughter enjoyed it. Much more to my taste was the Mercedes Thompson series by Patricia Briggs.

Twilight might have ended, better, but to my taste the female lead was much too passive. Briggs made an interesting, but strong female lead. I find it especially interesting the way that Mercedes manages to get her way, even in settings where she is not physically the strongest character.

Here it is:
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b36425/Moon-Called-/Patricia-Briggs/?si=0
http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/patricia-briggs/moon-called/_/R-400000000000000033401
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Called-Mercy-Thompson-Book/dp/0441013813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248156910&sr=8-1

Thanks everybody much appreciated :marvin:

If you are looking for reading for young adults and not yourself you should not bother with Charlaine Harris' books as they contain plenty of sex and violence.

Sorry? If we were talking about childrens' books then obviously I'd agree with you, but what's wrong with such things for a young adult audience?

Sorry? If we were talking about childrens' books then obviously I'd agree with you, but what's wrong with such things for a young adult audience?
I think maybe it's an issue of age & maturity. I would not have been comfortable giving the Sookie Stackhouse books to my daughter any younger than 16-17, and she was a very mature and sensible young adult. Other books by Charlaine Harris do not have the same type of situations and would be fine -- though they might not be interesting to a teen.

What made Twilight so appealing for teen girls was the heavy focus on romance and not on the physical relationship. So my recommendations tended to run to books with a similar theme of the supernatural. Not all of the books that I recommended were romantic.

The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith have seen a resurgence in popularity thanks to Twilight, which I find amusing since I read them in middle school many years ago. I would recommend the original trilogy, "The Awakening", "The Struggle", and "The Fury". The first sequel, "Dark Reunion" was also good. I didn't think the most recent volume "The Return: Nightfall" was as good as the original books, but I'm not the target audience anymore so take that with a grain of salt. :)

If it's not vampires in particular that she's looking for, but just supernatural YA books with a bit of romance in them, another L.J. Smith trilogy called "The Secret Circle" may also appeal.

And finally, I would be remiss if I did not recommend "The Demon's Lexicon" by Sarah Rees Brennan. It does not have much in the way of romance but it's a very well-written supernatural story by a young woman who got her start writing fanfiction and became a published author.

I think maybe it's an issue of age & maturity. I would not have been comfortable giving the Sookie Stackhouse books to my daughter any younger than 16-17, and she was a very mature and sensible young adult. Other books by Charlaine Harris do not have the same type of situations and would be fine -- though they might not be interesting to a teen.


I think it's a issue with terminology - I have a real "problem" with using this term "young adult" to refer to young teenagers; in my book (if you'll excuse the pun) they are not "adults", young or otherwise :). I personally refer to book aimed at that age group as "juvenile" books. Of course, I realise that my personal preferences aren't going to change the way that the book industry categorises its products ;).

I recommend Wings (http://www.amazon.com/Wings-Aprilynne-Pike-Hardback/dp/0061668036) by Aprilynne Pike. The Sony version is $11.89 which is $.34 cents more than the hardcover on Amazon. But I guess it just depends how you prefer to read it and how soon you want it. :-)

I've only read half of it so far but I found it very similar to Twilight. The main character finds out she's a fairy instead of finding out her friend is a vampire, but it's still a fantasy romance written for kids and young adults. Even Stephenie Meyer endorsed the book by saying, "Aprilynne Pike's WINGS is a remarkable debut; the ingenuity of the mythology is matched only by the startling loveliness with which the story unfolds."

The book briefly made it onto the NYT Bestsellers list when it came out in May. I guess the down side is that there's only one book so far. Your kids would have to wait for the other books in the series as they come out.

Just to add that fictionwise is having a promo on their young adult fiction at the moment. You might get some more ideas scanning through their collection.

Mel

My wife enjoyed and I am enjoying the "Rachel Morgan Series" by Kim Harrison's but not sure if it is YA compatible... Someone else may be a better judge than I. My wife said the books by Kelly Armstrong are good as well.

I think it's a issue with terminology - I have a real "problem" with using this term "young adult" to refer to young teenagers; in my book (if you'll excuse the pun) they are not "adults", young or otherwise :). I personally refer to book aimed at that age group as "juvenile" books. Of course, I realise that my personal preferences aren't going to change the way that the book industry categorises its products ;).

What you've also got to remember is that to most Americans (this is not meant as a bash so don't take it that way) kids should be kept as kids and wrapped in cotton wool until they're 18, they shouldn't even think the word sex let alone actually read about the act itself.

I think that the legal age for sex being much younger in the UK and most of Europe leads us to have a much more tolerant attitude towards this sort of thing.

I know this is a general sweeping kind of statement but I know people on both sides of the pond who subscribe to this kind of thinking.

What you've also got to remember is that to most Americans (this is not meant as a bash so don't take it that way) kids should be kept as kids and wrapped in cotton wool until they're 18, they shouldn't even think the word sex let alone actually read about the act itself.

I think that the legal age for sex being much younger in the UK and most of Europe leads us to have a much more tolerant attitude towards this sort of thing.

I know this is a general sweeping kind of statement but I know people on both sides of the pond who subscribe to this kind of thinking.

Speaking as a parent of a teenager and several future teens, if my kids are going to read about sex then I'd at least like the relationships being modelled to be ones that help them build positive expectations for their own future relationships. The ones portrayed in the Sookie Stackhouse series (since that's been brought up already) are not always healthy (or completely voluntary), and the primary relationship between Sookie and Bill depicts them sucking each other's blood during sex (humans get a 'buzz' and heightened senses from swallowing vampire blood in the series). I realize my kids are going to pull away the 'cotton wool' however much I try to prevent it, but if I can steer them away from Sookie I will. :)

Speaking as a parent of a teenager and several future teens, if my kids are going to read about sex then I'd at least like the relationships being modelled to be ones that help them build positive expectations for their own future relationships. The ones portrayed in the Sookie Stackhouse series (since that's been brought up already) are not always healthy (or completely voluntary), and the primary relationship between Sookie and Bill depicts them sucking each other's blood during sex (humans get a 'buzz' and heightened senses from swallowing vampire blood in the series). I realize my kids are going to pull away the 'cotton wool' however much I try to prevent it, but if I can steer them away from Sookie I will. :)

I can respect that, I was just trying to speak in general rather than going for specific books (having never read Sookie Stackhouse I can't really comment on them). I think that if kids are brought up correctly then to be perfectly honest being exposed to this sort of writing can only be a good thing if they find the story interesting. If they don't then they simply won't read it and if they do it doesn't mean they're gonna go and act out what they're reading about. That is obviously my personal opinion.

I can't recommend Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials) trilogy strongly enough. I found it at the end of middle school and studied it with glee at the end of my undergrad. So there's stuff there at least for people between those markers.

I am everyman, after all.

My wife enjoyed and I am enjoying the "Rachel Morgan Series" by Kim Harrison's but not sure if it is YA compatible... Someone else may be a better judge than I. My wife said the books by Kelly Armstrong are good as well.

I would say they are 16+
would also suggest Karen chance 16+

and the best Kelley Armstrong for any age really.

I would agree with those above on "Sookie Stackhouse" books

they are certainly a good read but i would not recommend them to anyone under the age of 16-18 (depending on the specific person i was recommending it to), as mentioned above Charlaine Harris relies heavily on the sex side of Sookie's relationships with both the vampires and the weres (and even a faerie male, who was a christmas gift given to her by her great grandfather). The story lines too are often very dark (even if the writing doesn't match the dark tone) possibly the widest spectrum of human behaviour (whether good or bad) are covered within the series, pedophilia, murder, greed, envy, lust, racism, rape, love, kindness, friendship.


you could try the "undead" series by Mary Janice Davidson, i have not read them myself so I cannot recommend them, my partner enjoyed them (but then we are not teens) so i would suggest having a look yourself before passing onto your daughters

I have just picked up "evernight" by Claudia Gray, which does appear to be more teen based (im only about 20 pages in)


further recommendations:

His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
The Spidewick Chronicles - Holly Black
Modern Tale of Faerie - Holly Black (adult)
The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice (adult)
The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stround
The Legend Of Drizzt - R A Salvatore
Harry Potter - J K Rowling

there some of the ones ive read over the last year or so, but none are really like the Twilight series

Thanks to all.... Our oldest daughter is very thankful for the suggestions.... Her birthday is the beginning of September so i may just get her a Sony PRS-300....

Thanks to all.... Our oldest daughter is very thankful for the suggestions.... Her birthday is the beginning of September so i may just get her a Sony PRS-300....
Lucky girl!

I really enjoyed the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. Couldn't put it down. Uglies, Pretties, Specials and Extras.

Also I liked The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Granted I'm 35 and not a young adult but I'm pretty immature. :-)

I second the suggestion of Holly Black and the Gemma Doyle Trilogy. I liked Graceling by Kristin Cashore and Crown Duel/Court Duel by Sherwood Smith. Both favor the witty banter/we won't admit we love each other kind of romance over the kind found in Twilight, but there's also plenty of action. Graceling is available in the Sony Store. Crown Duel/Court Duel is not, but several of Sherwood Smith's other books are. I would also recommend Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (also available at the Sony Store) and anything by Francesca Lia Block (a great number of her books are available in the Sony Store).

The great thing about books is there are no age ratings.

His Dark Materials are superb books. The Chronicles of Narnia are very good also even with the rather heavy-handed Christian allegory. Both series are however nothing like Twilight but should be suitable for anyone with taste.

Anything by Robert Westall is highly recommended. He's a British writer of horror (The Wheatstone Pond, Urn Burial, The Scarecrows) and fiction (Blitzcat, The Machine Gunners) for teenagers or "young adults". He won the Carnegie Medal for The Scarecrows and the Machine Gunners.

I have read the Mortal Instruments trilogy and it was really good. It is by Cassandra Clare. Great for Young Adult.

I have read the Mortal Instruments trilogy and it was really good. It is by Cassandra Clare. Great for Young Adult.

I agree. I recently read this trilogy as well and really enjoyed it. It's not a genre that I thought would really appeal to me (young adult fantasy) but I found myself unable to put the books down.

I think it's a issue with terminology - I have a real "problem" with using this term "young adult" to refer to young teenagers; in my book (if you'll excuse the pun) they are not "adults", young or otherwise :). I personally refer to book aimed at that age group as "juvenile" books. Of course, I realise that my personal preferences aren't going to change the way that the book industry categorises its products ;).

Actually the publishing industry calls that demographic "Middle Grade".

Isn't the term "young adult" in this sort of context just an easy way to allow adults to rationalise reading kids books? :D

The Wildcard series by George RR Martin........ Superheroes and Jokers abound....

What about the Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning..I've read the Twilight books..the last was horrible..the Moning books are interesting and different. so far..happy reading:)

I didn't think the most recent volume "The Return: Nightfall" was as good as the original books, but I'm not the target audience anymore so take that with a grain of salt.


I will agree 100%, half the time I didn't even know what was going on! I got to the end and thought, what just happened?! I grew up reading her books too (I'm 24) and I don't think it's age...I just don't think it was written as well as the others!

The ones with an * are part of a series:

Christopher Pike- The Last Vampire*
Neil Gaimen- The Graveyard Book
Maggie Steifvater- Shiver :2thumbsup, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception(Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie is sequel to Lament and is released on Oct. 1)
Suzanne Collins-The Hungar Games, with sequel Catching Fire
Gena Showlater- Intertwined
Gillian Sheild- Immortal
Claudia Gray-Evernight, with Stargazer (Hourglass will release in March 2010)
Alyson Noel- The Immortals*

Um.... those are all I can think of right now that haven't already been mentioned. All of the really good ones were already taken lol! I infinitely love Richelle Mead, Stephenie Meyer, Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Holly Black. Some of these are not in ebook form, not all are romances, but I have to say Maggie Steifvater's reeeaaaallly good! Well, in my opinion