This book delves heavily into myths and legends to create an interesting storyline. The main folktale/myth that is explored in this story is the undead. Though vampires are one of the undead mentioned, they are not the only breed of undead mentioned in this story. This actually helps the story have more realism. In every culture, there are myths and legends about nonhuman creatures, but they tend to vary greatly, even if they are the same creature.
Now, I guess I'm going to go off into a rant here but I feel that I must. As I'm sure you've all noticed, and I've mentioned this in a previous blog as well, todays vampire differs drastically from the past. The vampire legend has been butchered and altered so drastically, its almost unrecognizable. In the past, you could count on vampires, in both movies and books, being the bad guys. They were always portrayed as monsters with no humanity. It's simply unbelievable what has happened to the vampire. I mean, come on! Sparkling vampires?! It is one of the most ridiculous changes made to the vampire legend. And this is just one of many ridiculous alterations of vampires. Personally, I find myself wishing for the movies and books where vampires were blood sucking monsters. Hard to believe vampires were once viewed as the soulless undead, huh?
I agree the view has changed so dramatically it is horrible. If you go to see a movie or read a vampire book you will never know what to expect! It is strange and I wish this change would never had happened. Vampires have changed from evil to well they seem like teddy bears now.
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