I was wondering if there were any "modern" novels that explore the theme of romance between a human mortal (protagonist) and an immortal female (love interest).
Male MC and Female Immortal
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Some of Susan Squires's novels feature an immortal (vampire) heroine and a mortal hero: http://www.susansquires.com/books.html
Karen Harbaugh's Night Fires is a really great book set during the French Revolution, with a cursed immortal heroine, and a mortal hero.
Karen Harbaugh's Night Fires is a really great book set during the French Revolution, with a cursed immortal heroine, and a mortal hero.
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Didn't Ann Rice have a few of her vampire novels deal with this? I am thinking Queen of the Damned but its been so long since I sloshed through the book...
I wrote one called Once Upon A Goddess, and it's about a mortal male falling in love with the Goddess of Luck (Roman), Fortuna. But what's that saying about mixing mortals and Gods? Yeah, it's a bittersweet end.
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I appreciate each of the replies, and have glanced through the given titles. It seems in the mentioned titles, the story is told through the female immortal's POV. I'm looking for stories told from the male mortal's POV.
Also, please don't recommend Stephenie Meyer-level literature
*NOT implying the recommended stories are SM-level
Edit: Sorry 'triceretops', you must have replied while I was writing this. I may be interested.
Also, please don't recommend Stephenie Meyer-level literature
*NOT implying the recommended stories are SM-level
Edit: Sorry 'triceretops', you must have replied while I was writing this. I may be interested.
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Consider Peter S Beagle's The Folk of the Air. Not a Romance, but Beagle is such a fine writer he's likely to strike interesting sparks.
What springs to mind first, when I hear mortal man in love with immortal, is H Rider Haggard's She and La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
What springs to mind first, when I hear mortal man in love with immortal, is H Rider Haggard's She and La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Thorne Smith's THE NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS, from 1935, is a period-piece
with a mortal male protagonist and an immortal female love interest. It's funny and bittersweet, and worth it for the puns and drinking jokes.
with a mortal male protagonist and an immortal female love interest. It's funny and bittersweet, and worth it for the puns and drinking jokes.
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Its in my TBR piled but Lysany Sands wrote THE ACCIDENTAL VAMPIRE. I *think* it is female vamp amle mortal but don't hold me to it
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I appreciate each of the replies, and have glanced through the given titles. It seems in the mentioned titles, the story is told through the female immortal's POV. I'm looking for stories told from the male mortal's POV.
Also, please don't recommend Stephenie Meyer-level literature
*NOT implying the recommended stories are SM-level
Edit: Sorry 'triceretops', you must have replied while I was writing this. I may be interested.
If you are searching books that focus only on the male mortal's POV, it will be an incredibly rare find in the romance genre (which typically feature the POVs of the hero and heroine).
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Which means... you're in a prime position to write it! Our first romance was male first person POV and it's still our bestseller. But the male was the supernatural (werewolf). I'd imagine it would work well the other way too.
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