Vampire Romance… By a Dude: Hell and the Hunger by Mike Reynolds

When a vampire loses his love of the hunt he is left with nothing but his hunger… That is precisely where Joe finds himself at the beginning of Hell and the Hunger. He simply doesn’t want to be alive any longer but it…

The thing about most vampire romance is that you almost never see a guy writing it; I know that were this writer available, he’d probably go off the rails explaining why his story is not so much a romance as it is, I dunno, some really intense story of action and adventure, etc., but trust me dude, this falls right into the sort of paranormal romance that lots and lots of chicks write, all the time. 

This one is pretty classic antihero trope: The self-hating, sick of life vampire bumbles around, waiting to die; he’s tired of hunting people, but he can’t not eat because owwie. So he starts picking off Back Alley Sally types at the bars, –you know, like an older lion might pick off a sick antelope, after they’ve gotten too old to chase the big ones? Anyway, so, this angsty vampire guys meets a really interesting person, a female of course, for the first time in, Oh Jeez, forever, —it’s hard to believe for me that the author isn’t speaking vicariously through his character, and basically using this as a voicebox for his contempt for society. Pretty obvious actually. Anyway, and the only interesting woman on Earth is then threatened and vampire Joe must save her, because she’s his only reason to live. Flattering? A bit sexist? Mhmm… but! then again, if this is your thing, go for it. It’s on Amazon Kindle.