I went to the bookstore this weekend, which is always a double-edged sword for me. On one side I found several titles I have wanted to read for awhile. On the other I found several more titles that I just had to buy. As soon as I picked them up they just stuck to my hand and I couldn’t set them down again. I don’t have the time to read them right away but they are ready and waiting for me in my giant to-be-read stack. I swear all that thing does is grow.

But it was definitely a vampire weekend. In the young adult section I found three titles involving my favorite paranormal subject, The Vampire. And yes that deserves the caps. First I found the third book in Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires series, Midnight Alley. This is a decent young adult vampire series, lots of action and hints of romance. Read reviews for the first two books, Glass Houses and Dead Girls’ Dance or read an excerpt from Midnight Alley.

I also picked up Uninvited by Amanda Marrone. This was a blind choice, which is not always the best option. That tag line on the front of the book is “He’ll enter at her own risk.” It’s the story of Jordon, your average teenage girl whose boyfriend has been turned into a vampire. From what I can tell the whole premise of the story is that her ex is now a vampire and wants into her room but she won’t let him in. Except that her resistance is wearing thin. One of the appealing aspects of this is that is just over 200 pages, so if it’s not good at least it’s not long. Read an interview with Amanda Marrone from the YA Authors Cafe blog or her interview at Cynsations.

Then we have Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, the first in a new young adult series about, what else, a vampire academy. The book centers around Lissa, who is a Moroi princess, which is a mortal vampire with unbreakable bond to earth’s magic, and Lissa her best friend, who is half vampire and half human. Two years ago they escaped St. Vladimir’s Academy together but the freedom didn’t last long. Brought back to the academy the two girls must face the dangers within the walls, everything from peer pressure to eternal damnation of the soul. Read an excerpt.