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Hell I still like them. If you let the kid in you die, you might as call yourself a stick in the mud and try very hard to get the giant one out your ass.
Moby Dick
Perfume? is it the same as the movie? Loved the movie, but never got the chance to read Perfume(that is if its the same). Going to have to get it if it is. Let me know Lover.
It HAS werewolves, as well as vampires and witches. It's called the Hollows by Kim Harrison. It's a sort of alternative earth where in the 50's60's genetic engineering created a virus called the Angel Virus that wiped out over half the human population. As it did so however it was noticed that certain parts of the population were immune. They were the witches, werewolves, and vampires (and assorted beings) that were living in secret, hiding from humanity.
While the reduced population made it impossible for them to hide like they once did they suddenly found their numbers about equal if they were to all band together against the humans. They didn't, but the fact that they could kept humanity from doing anything rash and allowed the world of the Hollows to develop with our modern world with the supernatural seamlessly integrated.
I primarily read it for Ivy, a living vampire (they are born with a virus that makes them vamps, and reanimates them once they die, at which point they no longer age, but also loose their soul) who is sexy on two legs, and has a sexual tension with the main character, her witch roommate Rachel that's just yummy.
As well as a strong part of my desire to be bit.
And there are werewolves. They are simply called weres and they have their human and their wolf forms, but the wolf form is basically the same killos as their human form since their mass doesn't magically vanish.
I just love Ivy.
But the main character IS a witch, so that would be the most featured “type” but the representation seems fairly broad with Rachel meeting a wide variety. I know it's not the first book, I think it's the third, but a were character named David becomes a regular “cast” member and were issues DO come out.
A brief summary of one that threads across several books is their mating rate versus others, in that book the vamps as vamps CAN make a normal human into a vamp (though a socially low standing one) but a were must mate with a were to have children.
In that case David didn't WANT to have pups, but other weres were pushing because they considered it his responsibility.
Don't know if that would be the kind of issue that could come up for the story you are considering, but you could invert the idea of how can one connect if lycanthropy IS spread as easily as folklore indicates, etc, etc.
I dunno, I saw Kisten as “Ivy with a penis so it's okay to have sex.” That's not to say that I didn't like the guy, but he always seems kind of puny. Under Piscary, under Ivy, under Rachel. He always felt like the runt character to me.
I saw the Jenks/Matlina thing developing after the spell to make him big. I guessed it reset his clock.
As far as what's next? It wouldn't be as fun to read if we could guess in advance.
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