What was your first paranormal book? Your experience? Thoughts?

When I first started reading, I only read historical romance. I found my moms old box of books and I couldn’t get enough. I never really knew there were other genres until my cousin started sharing her books with me. It was eye opening!

She gave me Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan. I read the blurb, and thought: “Ugh. No thanks. Not really my cup of tea.”

Until I ran out of books. And money. And I couldn’t make it to the library…..
So I was stuck. I had a choice to reread the same books (again!) or read the new one that had been sitting on my shelf collecting dust for months.

So I read it. It only took the first page to hook me. By the end of the second chapter, I knew I was pulling an all nighter.
By half way, I was taking a break, trying to find the best excuse why I had to stay home from school the next day. It was 4 in the morning. My parents were gonna kill me. But who knew being sleep deprived, desperate to get to the ending, would help motivate me into coming up with the best excuses to get out of school?

I stayed home, played sick, finished the book, and made a full recovery when school let out. Just so I could make it to the library.
Can you believe Christine had tons of books in the Dark series? And a series with sisters, prophecies and physic powers! Oh, I was in love!

By summer, I was addicted. Not just with Christine’s books, but with multiple authors! I was hitting every used book store, stopping at every yard sale and buying book lots on ebay. It took a couple years and much dedication, but i finally had a library filled with all her books and so much more!

I couldn’t get enough paranormal! The characters, the different worlds, mythical beings, etc.

What about you? Want to share you firsts? (hehe, that sounds very dirty in my mind!)