I have never been a vampire fan. I prefer my fantasy to be set on other worlds or to ignore human society as far as possible and to come without the 'baggage' of myths and legends that vampires have accumulated though I have to say I don't feel the same way about werewolves or fae so maybe it's just the feeding aspect. I hate most vampire films - really hate - along with most horror films that make me 'jump' (and along with e.g. Supernatural...) I struggled through the Anne Rice vampires; I really tried because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. I read Laurell Hamilton's Merry Gentry books avidly but have so far avoided Anita Blake.

Now I'm being very slowly won over. I adored George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream. I've read Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches and must get hold of the rest of the trilogy. And your Alexander in Cat's Call is thoroughly appealing, possibly because he is from a different culture. I'm a serious fan of Being Human.

So you don't have to convince me but it still isn't normally my genre of choice!