Vampire Kisses (series)
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Vampire Kisses is a series of books written by Ellen Schreiber
which consists of Vampire Kisses
, Vampire Kisses II: Kissing Coffins, Vampire Kisses III: Vampireville, Vampire Kisses IV: Dance With A Vampire, Vampire Kisses V: Coffin Club, Vampire Kisses VI: Royal Blood, "Vampire Kisses VII: Love Bites", Vampire Kisses VIII: Cryptic Cravings and a forthcoming volume, Vampire Kisses IX: Immortal Hearts. The series itself revolves around the life of a teenage gothic girl named Raven Madison.
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Raven Madison: The main character.in the whole series. She is sixteen (now seventeen) year old goth living in the town she calls 'Dullsville'. She is an outcast in her family and school. She's witty, smart, and humorous. She wears black all the time and has a deep obsession over vampires. She is only accepted by her best friend, Becky Miller because she too was also an outsider. Raven is often faced with the challenge of having to stand up to her arch enemy Trevor, the most popular boy in school. She wishes she could be a vampire like her boyfriend, Alexander, but has second thoughts.She is also friends with Scarlet and Onyx.
Patrick Rae Blume- is Jagger's best friend,and Alexander's neighbor in Romania, he comes to dullsville, With Jagger and Luna,and gets jealous easily, he seems to really like Luna until it was revealed Luna was dating Sabastion Alexander's best friend. he first came in at the beginning of Cryptic Cravins. Patrick Rae has readish locks, and deep sea blue eyes and looks like a celtic goth from Ireland and loves heavy metal music, Hot topic, and the colors midnight black, blood read, and navy blue.
Holly Mae Blume- is Patrick Rae's twin sister, and is best friends with Luna. She seems to also be into Alexander, and has done some crazy dramatic things to make him hers, but has failed every time,she first arrived in the middle of Cryptic Cravins where she met Alexander and Raven together. she has long reasish locks with very bleach pale skin and has big icy blue eyes with a few freckles on her nose and looks like a irish beauty.
Alexander Sterling: A vampire, originally from Romania, who moves to 'Dullsville' to stay in his dead grandmother's mansion. Alexander is extremely caring, polite, and protective. He is also an artist who paints family portraits or landscapes during the night time. Alexander is home-schooled, and yearns for a human life style. He is tall and thin with long, silky midnight black hair and chocolate brown eyes.
Becky Miller: She is Raven's closest friend and she lives on a farm. She often finds herself an unwilling participant in Raven's schemes. Throughout the series, she begins to gain confidence and she is slowly accepted by her fellow classmates. She also starts dating Trevor's ex-best friend, Matt.
Trevor Mitchell: Raven's nemesis ever since kindergarten. Trevor is often portrayed as a snob, fitting into a 'king' archetype in the clique of popular kids at school. His character is more in depth and is revealed throughout the series. He has a crush on Raven, but will not admit it.
Jameson: Alexander's butler. He is very old - He has served the family for many a year, and watches over Alexander, moving from town to town with him. He is dating Ruby White.
Jagger Maxwell: Jagger is a vampire from Romania. He is an old enemy of Alexander, therefore he could be considered the main villain of the series. He has one blue eye and one green eye. His personality seems slightly eccentric, as he is very focused on his missions and does relatively crazy and dramatic things in order to achieve his goals. He doesn't view anything as too extreme. He seems to like Raven and tries to make her his several times but fails. He has a human twin sister, Luna, and an 11-year-old little brother, Valentine and is the oldest Maxwell Sibling.
Luna Maxwell: Jagger's younger twin sister. Unlike her brother, she has blue eyes instead of both green and blue. Her personality is actually more childish and eccentric than Jagger, and her motives are fueled more by spontaneous emotions than the deeper ones of her brother Jagger. She wants to find love, but has never been found quiet right for forever with anyone. She has had 3 attempted convent cermonies and has been left at the alter at all of them. Her main drive is that she is an emotional wreck when it comes to Alexander and her own family. Luna was born a human and was engaged to Alexander when he decided to back out of the agreement. This is partly what drives Jagger in his hate towards Alexander, because he was supposed to have made Luna a vampire when they married. Later she stied to have a convent cermoney with Ravens arch nemises Trever, but Raven and Alexander ruined that. Then she tried to have a convent ceremony with Alexander's best friend, Sebastion, but Raven found out that they were really on sacred ground and tried stopped it. Only to be dragged aside by Jagger at the last second.
Valentine Maxwell: Jagger and Luna's younger 11-year-old brother. According to Alexander, Valentine is a blood reader. He looks exactly like Jagger only in a younger version and has only green eyes. Valentine had a hard time communicating with his older siblings because of him being the youngest.
Billy Madison (aka "Billy Boy" or "Nerd Boy"): Raven's younger brother, whom Raven always has a conflict with because of Raven's taste of goth subculture, while he has interest in chess and sci-fi adventures like Star Wars
. After his birth, Raven's parents begin to grow out of the hippie culture and transition into more of a suburban family. He has a friend named Henry who shares his interests. He secretly does respect Raven for standing up for herself,but enjoys making fun of her. He really like Alexander and thinks he is cool.
Phoenix: A vampire biker that Raven meets inside the Coffin Club. Phoenix has purple hair with shades and usually wears black motorcycle boots and a leather jacket. Phoenix is eventually revealed to be Alexander, who needed an alternate identity because of Jagger's schemes.
Sebastian Camden: Alexander's best friend. A handsome, charming guy appearing around Alexander's age with wild wiry short brown and blond dreadlocks, boot-shaped sideburns, goatee, and a thin ashen face. He is impulsive, humorous and a real flirt. He "falls in love" with Raven's best friend Becky. He later "falls in love" with Luna, but breaks up with her when she tries to trick him in to having a convent ceramony on sacred ground. He likes to travel the world and has been with a lot of girls trying to find his true love.
Henry: He is Billy's "Nerd Mate", a smart and clever little 11-year-old boy, just like Billy. From time to time he has helped Raven. He loves creating very bizzare and complicated locks for everything.
Mr. & Mrs. Sterling: They are Alexander's parents, who still live in Romania. They are a happy vampire couple who first appear in the 6th book, Royal Blood. Mr. Sterling is a art dealer and at the beginning does not realize how good an artist Alexander is, but later discovers it during an art action. Mrs. Sterling insists on having an umbrella with her unless it is raining.
from September 25, 2007 to September 8, 2009. Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives is also licensed in Germany by Tokyopop Germany. Ellen Schreiber also announced that there will be three more volumes to be released in September 2011.
Ellen Schreiber
Ellen Schreiber is an American young-adult fiction author.-Biography:Ellen Schreiber was an actress and a stand-up comedian before becoming an author; she was also a real-estate agent. She studied Shakespearean theater at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and comedy at The Second City of...
which consists of Vampire Kisses
Vampire Kisses (novel)
Vampire Kisses is a vampire novel written by author Ellen Schreiber. It is the start of the Vampire Kisses series.-Overview:The book introduces 16-year old Raven Madison, a girl living in Dullsville, who is constantly complaining that there is nothing to do, at least until Alexander Sterling, a...
, Vampire Kisses II: Kissing Coffins, Vampire Kisses III: Vampireville, Vampire Kisses IV: Dance With A Vampire, Vampire Kisses V: Coffin Club, Vampire Kisses VI: Royal Blood, "Vampire Kisses VII: Love Bites", Vampire Kisses VIII: Cryptic Cravings and a forthcoming volume, Vampire Kisses IX: Immortal Hearts. The series itself revolves around the life of a teenage gothic girl named Raven Madison.
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Characters
Shut up wikipedia administartionRaven Madison: The main character.in the whole series. She is sixteen (now seventeen) year old goth living in the town she calls 'Dullsville'. She is an outcast in her family and school. She's witty, smart, and humorous. She wears black all the time and has a deep obsession over vampires. She is only accepted by her best friend, Becky Miller because she too was also an outsider. Raven is often faced with the challenge of having to stand up to her arch enemy Trevor, the most popular boy in school. She wishes she could be a vampire like her boyfriend, Alexander, but has second thoughts.She is also friends with Scarlet and Onyx.
Patrick Rae Blume- is Jagger's best friend,and Alexander's neighbor in Romania, he comes to dullsville, With Jagger and Luna,and gets jealous easily, he seems to really like Luna until it was revealed Luna was dating Sabastion Alexander's best friend. he first came in at the beginning of Cryptic Cravins. Patrick Rae has readish locks, and deep sea blue eyes and looks like a celtic goth from Ireland and loves heavy metal music, Hot topic, and the colors midnight black, blood read, and navy blue.
Holly Mae Blume- is Patrick Rae's twin sister, and is best friends with Luna. She seems to also be into Alexander, and has done some crazy dramatic things to make him hers, but has failed every time,she first arrived in the middle of Cryptic Cravins where she met Alexander and Raven together. she has long reasish locks with very bleach pale skin and has big icy blue eyes with a few freckles on her nose and looks like a irish beauty.
Alexander Sterling: A vampire, originally from Romania, who moves to 'Dullsville' to stay in his dead grandmother's mansion. Alexander is extremely caring, polite, and protective. He is also an artist who paints family portraits or landscapes during the night time. Alexander is home-schooled, and yearns for a human life style. He is tall and thin with long, silky midnight black hair and chocolate brown eyes.
Becky Miller: She is Raven's closest friend and she lives on a farm. She often finds herself an unwilling participant in Raven's schemes. Throughout the series, she begins to gain confidence and she is slowly accepted by her fellow classmates. She also starts dating Trevor's ex-best friend, Matt.
Trevor Mitchell: Raven's nemesis ever since kindergarten. Trevor is often portrayed as a snob, fitting into a 'king' archetype in the clique of popular kids at school. His character is more in depth and is revealed throughout the series. He has a crush on Raven, but will not admit it.
Jameson: Alexander's butler. He is very old - He has served the family for many a year, and watches over Alexander, moving from town to town with him. He is dating Ruby White.
Jagger Maxwell: Jagger is a vampire from Romania. He is an old enemy of Alexander, therefore he could be considered the main villain of the series. He has one blue eye and one green eye. His personality seems slightly eccentric, as he is very focused on his missions and does relatively crazy and dramatic things in order to achieve his goals. He doesn't view anything as too extreme. He seems to like Raven and tries to make her his several times but fails. He has a human twin sister, Luna, and an 11-year-old little brother, Valentine and is the oldest Maxwell Sibling.
Luna Maxwell: Jagger's younger twin sister. Unlike her brother, she has blue eyes instead of both green and blue. Her personality is actually more childish and eccentric than Jagger, and her motives are fueled more by spontaneous emotions than the deeper ones of her brother Jagger. She wants to find love, but has never been found quiet right for forever with anyone. She has had 3 attempted convent cermonies and has been left at the alter at all of them. Her main drive is that she is an emotional wreck when it comes to Alexander and her own family. Luna was born a human and was engaged to Alexander when he decided to back out of the agreement. This is partly what drives Jagger in his hate towards Alexander, because he was supposed to have made Luna a vampire when they married. Later she stied to have a convent cermoney with Ravens arch nemises Trever, but Raven and Alexander ruined that. Then she tried to have a convent ceremony with Alexander's best friend, Sebastion, but Raven found out that they were really on sacred ground and tried stopped it. Only to be dragged aside by Jagger at the last second.
Valentine Maxwell: Jagger and Luna's younger 11-year-old brother. According to Alexander, Valentine is a blood reader. He looks exactly like Jagger only in a younger version and has only green eyes. Valentine had a hard time communicating with his older siblings because of him being the youngest.
Billy Madison (aka "Billy Boy" or "Nerd Boy"): Raven's younger brother, whom Raven always has a conflict with because of Raven's taste of goth subculture, while he has interest in chess and sci-fi adventures like Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
. After his birth, Raven's parents begin to grow out of the hippie culture and transition into more of a suburban family. He has a friend named Henry who shares his interests. He secretly does respect Raven for standing up for herself,but enjoys making fun of her. He really like Alexander and thinks he is cool.
Phoenix: A vampire biker that Raven meets inside the Coffin Club. Phoenix has purple hair with shades and usually wears black motorcycle boots and a leather jacket. Phoenix is eventually revealed to be Alexander, who needed an alternate identity because of Jagger's schemes.
Sebastian Camden: Alexander's best friend. A handsome, charming guy appearing around Alexander's age with wild wiry short brown and blond dreadlocks, boot-shaped sideburns, goatee, and a thin ashen face. He is impulsive, humorous and a real flirt. He "falls in love" with Raven's best friend Becky. He later "falls in love" with Luna, but breaks up with her when she tries to trick him in to having a convent ceramony on sacred ground. He likes to travel the world and has been with a lot of girls trying to find his true love.
Henry: He is Billy's "Nerd Mate", a smart and clever little 11-year-old boy, just like Billy. From time to time he has helped Raven. He loves creating very bizzare and complicated locks for everything.
Mr. & Mrs. Sterling: They are Alexander's parents, who still live in Romania. They are a happy vampire couple who first appear in the 6th book, Royal Blood. Mr. Sterling is a art dealer and at the beginning does not realize how good an artist Alexander is, but later discovers it during an art action. Mrs. Sterling insists on having an umbrella with her unless it is raining.
Books in series
- Vampire Kisses
- Kissing Coffins
- Vampireville
- Dance With a Vampire
- The Coffin Club
- Royal Blood
- Love Bites
- Cryptic Cravings
- Immortal Hearts
Manga adaptation
Adapted by Ellen Schreiber and illustrated by Rem, a three volume manga adaptation titled Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives was published by TokyopopTokyopop
Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The existing German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, as well...
from September 25, 2007 to September 8, 2009. Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives is also licensed in Germany by Tokyopop Germany. Ellen Schreiber also announced that there will be three more volumes to be released in September 2011.
Volume list
External links
- Vampire Kisses:Blood Relatives at Tokyopop's official website