Stories about vampires, especially in the romantic feed, have been popular for many years. The commercial success of such projects attracts more and more writers in this genre. Chloe Neil was not an exception, whose "Chicago vampires" which received considerable fame, recognition and love of connoisseurs of the genre around the world. What so attracts readers in her works? After all, it was Chicago Vampires that made Chloe Neil one of the best-selling authors in the urban fantasy genre. In the future, the cycle “Devil's Island” brought her the same fame.
Chloe Neil Biography
The writer was born on May 15, 1975. She spent all her childhood in the south of the USA, and then moved to the Midwest, where she still lives. Her hobbies include baking, watching television series, walking with two dogs - Scout and Baxter. Chloe Neil also prides herself on being a dedicated fan of the Big Red Cornell football team.
She is the author of three major cycles - “Chicago Vampires”, “Devil's Island” and “Dark Elite”. The first two made her the best-selling author according to the New York Times and USA Today.
Chloe Neil consists of two societies: The Romanists of America and the American Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers.
Content Details
The entire Chicago Vampire series is written in the genre of romantic urban fantasy. The cycle is about Merit, a graduate student from the Department of Literature at the University of Chicago, who turned into a vampire after a failed walk through the evening City of the Winds. From this moment on, a completely different and much darker life begins for her.
She later finds out that Chicago is actually not such a harmless city, especially under the impenetrable cover of the night. She meets both good and bad vampires. He learns that there are two "clans" in the city - the noble houses of Cadogan and Navarra. In the finale of the first book about the existence of these mystical creatures, the whole city learns. In addition to vampires, the plot contains magicians, witches, nymphs, fairies, angels and demons, who sometimes help the main character and her friends, and sometimes build insidious intrigues against them.
Of course, the love line in such books comes to the fore. And the main character will face a difficult task: to choose between two attractive vampires - Ethan Sullivan and Morgan Grier.
This cycle will definitely appeal to lovers of romantic stories about vampires and those who once were crazy about all parts of Twilight.
Parts of the cycle
In total, the Chicago Vampires cycle consists of 13 parts. The first book was written in 2008 and published in April 2009. The last part went on sale on April 25, 2017. In addition to the main thirteen volumes, the story of Merit went beyond the main cycle.
The main works in chronological order look like this:
- "Some girls bite" (2009).
- "Vampires of the City of the Winds" (2009).
- "Bitten twice" (2010).
- "Cruelly Bitten" (2011).
- "Ice Bite" (2011).
- Devastated (2012).
- "House Rules" (2013).
- “Painfully Bitten” (including “Belligerent for you,” “High Stake”) (2013).
- "Wildness" (2014).
- Bloody Games (including Lucky Case), 2014.
- Dark Debt (2015).
- "Marked Midnight" (2016).
- "Entered Blade" (2017).
Translations and editions
Most of Chloe Neil's books can only be found in amateur translations into Russian. Although in 2010 and 2011 the first two parts of the cycle came out. Has published them "ABC" in the series "LUX. After dusk." In this series, books were published by other authors writing stories about the "fanged". But as interest in the topic very quickly waned, the publisher stopped translating and releasing the rest of the Chicago Vampires. Other publishers did not buy back the rights to publish the series, so the fans had to do the translation.
Despite such low interest in the Russian market, this series brought fame to the author in the United States and beyond.