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I just read a novel, Nalini Singh's Angel Blood, which features...

1. Angels who create vampires.

2. A vampangel. Or should that be a anpire?

Truly, the craze for vampires and angels cannot be taken any farther. But I'm just saying that because I know you, O Loyal Readers, will immediately comment with examples of God being a vampire or some such. (I am already aware of Vampirates, thank you. And also of Gundam Unicorn, which as far as I know is not also a vampire.)

But what I want to know is, has anyone written a unipire? It sucks blood through its horn!

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http://www.artbreak.com/work/show/104326-vampire-unicorn-ahna-fender

*facepalm* Anpire immediately made me think of a vampire that lives on red bean paste (anko in Japanese).

Much tastier than blood!

I have just texted a number of people with regard to this vampangel, to universal cries of WHAT.

But, the real question is: Did you like it?

It was not exactly good, but extremely readable. Amusingly whacked-out worldbuilding, but I disliked the way that being a total jerk was equated with manliness.

Sadly all I can think of is the series in which the bisexual rock-star vampire's father is a fallen angel. It is probably not nearly as cracktastic as vampangels. Or unipires.

Is that the one by Nancy Springer?

It's not, actually, though I think I know the Springer you're talking about! No, it's this book (http://www.amazon.com/Rush-Wings-Book-Makers-Song/dp/1416541446)--someone else posted a breathless description and it sounded so amazingly id-tastic and trashy that I picked up a copy while I was traveling. (I'm only fifty pages in, so I have no idea if it will live up to its summary or if it will just be the dull sort of trashy.)

Is it some kind of law that paranormal romances must feature a tattooed headless woman on the cover?

Yes.

(Actually it's my theory that, no matter what the copyright pages say, all cover designs for paranormal romances are done by one guy working out of his apartment with nothing but a computer, the same twenty Photoshop filters, and one thousand pictures of mostly headless women in jeans/a leather skirt and midriff-baring top.)

BWAHAHAHAHAA!

Also, aphrodisiac angel dust!

Sadly, I have not come across unipires, but the vampires in Cynthia Leitich Smith's Eternal try to suck an angel's blood and get blisters and sores around their mouths!

In Bill Pronzini and Barry Malzberg's short-short "Opening a Vein," the last person on Earth is a vampire who drinks the blood of the Devil and then turns into God.

I knew it!

All I can think of is carnivorous unicorns. Who prefer the flesh of virgins, usually.

---L.

Unipire!

I KNEW IT!

A narwhampire* would make more sense, for some especially twisted sense of "sense".

* i.e. having a narwhal, unicorn-like, tooth.

Note to self: Next time, finish checking f-list before commenting so you know which post to comment to!

I'm new to your blog, but if you like angel fiction, have you read any of Sharon Shinn's "Samaria" novels? I thought she did a very good job of creating the society, the roles of the (genetically engineered) angels, and the structure of the colony planet. She is also amazingly talented at conveying music through mere written word (the angels' whole subsociety is based upon music). I disliked only the two books that took place later in the timeline (books two and three out of the five), where the people had developed technology; while a logical internal progression of the society, for me it undermined the whole purpose of the setup. It felt to me the same as if Middle Earth had become industrialized.

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