Vampires can be easily described: beautiful, dangerous, forever young, pale, drinking blood, usually going out by night, ... Majority of YA wish they would be bitten by a vampire. Don't you? Maybe not now that fallen angels, fairies and werewolves crashed the party.If I say vampires, you would immediately think of Twilight, Sookie Stackhouse (aka True Blood), Vampire Academy, Vampire Diaries, Morganville Vampires, Blue Bloods, Evernight and more. With me, all started with vampires. Twilight was the first fantasy book (okay, I admit, I've read Replica, but that doesn't count because I was ten or eleven) I have read. Vampires were the first creatures that pulled me into the reading world.
I wasn't impressed with werewolves (Team La Push Jacob Off a Cliff) at all.
Then came Hush, hush and Fallen Angels. Fallen angels are also beautiful, dangerous, forever young, but they are not so pale, they are not drinking blood and they can walk around whenever they want. Fallen angels are currently winning over vampires. There are so much series coming out with angels as main characters that I don't even keep up anymore. Maximum Ride, Hush, hush, Fallen, The Mortal Instruments, Angel, Grace, Halo, Angel Star, Personal Demons, Knight Angels, ...In some series heaven are as close to the angels as they are to werewolves.
Werewolves are the shapeshifters, dangerous and hot (I mean temparature ;) ), they live by instincts, they can eat you alive, but no one says they are beautiful by default. Oh, I forgot, they are also furry and they stink. Werewolves are natural enemies of the vampires. The series about warewolves that I loved the most are The Dark Divine, Twilight (Jacob was the only one disturbing, others were great) and The Darkest Powers. However there are others I haven't read or didn't like that much: The Wolves of Mercy Falls, Mercedes Thompson, Alpha & Omega, Sookie Stackhouse, Kitty Norville, ...
The last but not least on my fantasy creature list are Fairies. The cute, beautiful (seriously, why werewolves aren't described as beautiful?), tiny forest creatures, whom I wouldn't messed up with if I were you. Fairies are also known as dancers, they are always having fun, always telling the truth, but with double meaning. You can find fairies in: Wicked Lovely, The Modern Faerie Tales, Need, Wings, Iron Fey, Wondrous Strange, ...I know I haven't mentioned spell casters, witches, sorcerers, necromancers, immortals, dragons, unicorns, ghosts, zombies, mermaids, sirens and other mythical creatures. I usually don't find them interesting that much, though they are amazing.
The question is. If you could be one mythical creature, what would you be?
I don't think I'd want to be a mythical creature. I like being human. :-)
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Hey! you forgot the Guardian animals of the 4 corners (i secretly think the black panther is one of them seeing as he lives in the east)