It is very clear that in the recent years, the vampire genre has significantly increased. Possibly due to the popularity of the Twilight series. Now tons of authors are trying to write vampire novels but only few actually succeed in becoming insanely popular. I've looked through several vampire novels, other than Twilight of coarse, and I've noticed some common plot elements.
1. Vampires have turned from evil, ugly and...non-sparkly into handsome, and mysterious lovers. Most vampires have pale skin, beautiful eyes, dashing hair, a mysterious personality, and basically gorgeous. Some vampires even use tons and tons of body glitter
2. The vampire/human relationship is fairly more common these days. Why? I believe because they are easy to write because you already know how they would act. The vampire boyfriend loves the mortal girl but has a deep desire to want to eat her, while the female usually is troubled by the fact that her boyfriend is immortal and wants to kill her. Some novels are very good at portraying the nearly endless blood-lust of the vampire, while some fall flat (Twilight).
Vampires are no longer evil (like Dracula) and are more like every twelve-year olds dream man. They sparkly, speak in a poetic term, are beyond humanly gorgeous, and now don't burn in the sunlight. The differences between modern vampire novels and the classic vampire novels (like Dracula) are beyond counting (and blogging).
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