Most vampire-related fiction today seems to involve teenagers, erotica or what amount to romances where one of the main characters ends up being a vampire. Some of these vampires (Kenyon's "Dark Hunter" series comes to mind) are practically bloodless in that their vampiric heroes must abstain from drinking blood or they end up being one of the bad guys.
Vampires are blood drinkers. That's just the way things are. The whole "monk" or "vegetarian" vampire idea tends to be rather silly to me.
If they hate being a vampire, or what being a vampire requires them to do, then why not end themselves? It also seems silly to me that in some of these novels, the story ends with a "cure" and the two main characters go off to lead a boringly short and very mortal life together.
My vampires, at least the ones who are at least a century old, are enjoying their existence. They aren't angsty and they aren't mopey about their situation. They don't sparkle, they aren't spending their seventieth year as a high school senior and they most certainly don't spawn so-called "half-vampire" offspring.
But that's another gripe entirely.
If you're looking for something different than what is currently on the shelves, "Siofra" may just be what you're looking for in entertainment. There are no zombies, witches, demons, ghosts or detectives to be found. Just explorations into vampiric existence and what it means for those who experience it.
If you like the kind of books I've been less than kind about, that's fine. I'm cool with that. I'm just wanting to bring something else to the table.
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