{"id":8493,"date":"2021-05-25T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:16:30","slug":"357e-female-protagonist-brooding-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/357e-female-protagonist-brooding-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"357E: Female Protagonist, Brooding Vampire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m trying to find a book I read in the late 1990s, early 2000s. The parts of the plot I remember are as follows:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1. The main character is a female journalist who at one point is cornered in an alley by a would-be rapist but manages to escape. I think she let the attacker fondle her breasts before kicking him in the groin and escaping.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2. The vampire love interest is brooding, and at one point watches the heroine from outside her house. I have a vague memory of him being described as wearing a long leather jacket.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">3. I think there\u2019s some kind of crime element? Like she\u2019s a crime reporter or something like that.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">4. The journalist lives alone and has a pet cat.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div>I think it was a paperback, and it had a film noir\u00a0sort of vibe to my pre-teen self. I&#8217;ve thoroughly scoured the vampire genre on <a href=\"https:\/\/smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/<\/a>, but can&#8217;t find something that seems to fit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to find a book I read in the late 1990s, early 2000s. The parts of the plot I remember are as follows: 1. The main character is a female journalist who at one point is cornered in an alley by a would-be rapist but manages to escape. I think she let the attacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,22,19],"tags":[350],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8494,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions\/8494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}