Vampires VS Werewolves Blog Hop

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Sorry this didn’t go up yesterday! Scheduling issues on the blog!

* giveaway ends on the 20th. At 11:59pm.

Vampires versus werewolves:

If we’re going by Greek mythology, they both sucked.

Vampires are mentioned here and there in the old Greek myths. There was an entire island of blood drinkers in The Odyssey and birds called strix that drank blood.

Hecate had a daughter named Empusa that would seduce men an drink their blood while they slept.

Lamia was a daughter of Poseidon who had an affair with Zeus. When Hera discovered their affair, she cursed Lamia and forced her to devour her kids. After all her children were killed she continued to drink the blood of normal children. Zeus then blinded her so that… Well I’m not sure exactly how that was supposed to help other than making it more difficult to catch the children.

There is only one instance of werewolves in Greek mythology.

Once upon a time the nymph Callisto and Artemis were lovers. Callisto had no desire to be with anyone else but Zeus decided he had to have her, so he disguise himself as Artemis and the two had sex. They had a child named Arcas.

As punishment for her infidelity, Artemis transformed Callisto into a bear. Meanwhile, in a faraway Kingdom, Lycaon decided that he wanted the power of the gods himself. So he kidnapped the now grown son of Zeus Arcas,(Lycaon was also Arcas’ grandfather on his mothers side but that’s neither here more there) put him on an alter, and shouted a challenge to the sky. If Zeus valued his sons life, he would come down and save him.

Zeus did. And then he turned Lycaon into a wolf, gave his kid hunting gear, and said “have fun!”

Arcas wasted no time hunting down Lycaon. On his way back to what would now be his kingdom, he spotted a bear. The bear was actually his mother, but he didn’t know that. She was so excited to see him that she ran forward to embrace him. He, terrified, notched an arrow. Zeus arrived on the scene just in time to avert tragedy. He whisked them away into the stars where mother and son are reunited forever as Ursa Major and minor.

As far a as my favorites in the modern day go? I prefer vampires. They just have more finesse. However, book wise, my absolute favorite is Bitten, which is a book about werewolves by Kelley Armstrong.

Warning: Bitten is not Young adult, so if you win my contest, do no choose this book if you are under eighteen. I will happily substitute it for a young adult book by the same author that also features a werewolf called “The Awakening.”

My favorite vampire books for the moment are the Vampire Academy series so I’ll give away the first in that series.

Of course the winners are welcome to a copy of either one of my books.

To enter: leave a comment with your preference, vampire or werewolf and your favorite story.

Additional entries:

Follow me anywhere you can think of (blog, Facebook, twitter, tmblr, Pinterest, linked in, anywhere you can find me) and leave a comment for EACH entry.

2 Winners will be chosen at random from the comments, they can have any book they choose as an ebook. Enjoy 🙂

49 thoughts on “Vampires VS Werewolves Blog Hop”

  15. I actually like werewolves better. I haven’t read a lot yet so I don’t have a favorite. Thanks for the giveaway!

    thompsonem3 at aol dot com

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  20. if i had to chose i would pick werewolf’s. my favorite werewolf book is any from the mercy thompson series by patricia briggs and my vampire favorite is any from the black dagger brotherhood by j r ward
    kaholgate at ymail dot com

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  27. I love your technical explanation of both in Greek Mythology! I also prefer Vampires. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I win this one because The Vampire Academy is the next series I want to read. I do have the first two (I won the first one and my friend lent me the second!) but like to have at least four in the house before beginning any series, just in case. 🙂

    Thanks for the great giveaway,
    Marlena
    charmedpoms(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  38. I love both vampires and werewolves, but if I have to choose, I would choose werewolves. I love their loyalty, protective nature and so on. I have many stories that I love, but one of my favorites that I read recently is The Better To Bite by Cynthia Eden.
    I have not yet read Bitten, but it is on my TBR. 🙂
    Thank you for the giveaway!
    trb0917 at gmail.com

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