@pour-some-aspartame-on-me submitted:

I was sucked into the VC obsession hellhole when I was 14. I had read Dracula and proclaimed it as one of my favourite books before I had even finished it. When I told my dad this, he recommended the strange and mystical books I had seen my parents reading as I grew up, “The Vampire Chronicles.” I could barely put IWTV down once I started it. I finished it in a week, which was the fastest I had ever read a book of that size before. My parents had the first four books as a boxset, and I thought those were the only ones in the series. Once I finished TotBT on January 22, 2012, I was really sad, and on the 24 I heard of TVA. I quickly found out there were actually 10 books. I’m still a little mad that my parents neglected to tell me because they knew there were more than four books, and didn’t tell me.