Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Vampires & Romans

I've gotten hooked on Lynsay Sands Argeneau series, which is about the Argeneau family who are a race of people that have come from Atlantis. An experiment with nano technology has given them extremely long lives (thousands of years for some), the ability to fight disease and age, read people minds and influence them, but came with a blood price. They must feed the nanos that inhabit their blood stream with fresh blood on a regular basis. This has led the family to own blood banks, so they may fill their needs without eating "off the hoof" as they like to refer to it. Each book follows a member of the Argeneau family finding their "life mate" and the subsequent adventure they have in the process. The first book I read (and you can read the series out of order) was not that appealing to me, but the series has grown on me and I look forward to collecting all of Sands books in the series.

This weekend I finished a book by Rick Riordan called The Lightning Thief, which is a children's book. This book is also I series and I highly recommend it to young and old readers. Set in modern day, it follows Percy Jackson, a unlikely hero as he puzzles his way through Roman mythology and how he happens to be related to one of the gods.

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