Barb & J.C. Hendee live in a quirky small town just south of Portland, Oregon. They are the authors of the Noble Dead Saga. Learn more at: www.nobledead.org. Barb is also the author of the Vampire Memories series and the upcoming Mist Torn Witches series. Learn more at www.barbhendee.org. J.C. and Barb share a home office with their desks pushed up against one another. They garden year-round and grow a good deal of their own food. They also seem to spend a good deal of time researching myths and folklore about vampires.
Blood Memories by Barb Hendee
Originally published in 1998, Blood Memories is an odd book. In some ways, it's more in line with the gothic vampire-fiction trends begun by Anne Rice, while in other ways it's more reflective of the newer urban-fantasy trends influenced by Joss Whedon and early Laurell Hamilton.
On the Rice side of the scales: Barb Hendee's vampires kill, but are presented as sympathetic characters who don't enjoy killing. (In current urban fantasy, it's more common to find vamps who rarely kill, or else vamps who are wholly evil and like to kill.) There's a focus on the angst and loneliness of eternal life. The present-day narrative is broken up by expository chapters in which the main characters' life histories are revea... Read More
