In The Laws of the Blood, Susan Sizemore gives us
another perspective of how the vampires of the U.S.
live.  The vampires of Ms. Sizemore don't need coffins
to sleep in and they technically don't die. She
believes they can sleep just about anywhere and their
soul does what she calls dream riding. They do not
have human servants that stay with them for life, they
only have companions who they are only bound to by a
bloodbond. They very seldom have much physical contact
with their companions due to the risk of making them a
vampire as well.  A vampire in this world can make
their companion a vampire if they feed off them
enough, were in most worlds the human cannot be
infected by vampirism if they are bound to a master.


Not one single master controls the vampires in a
city, they are spread out among the city in what they
call Nest. A Nest is a group of vampires, slaves, and
companions that live together and hunt together. They
call themselves the Strigoi and have their own laws to
protect. In these books, mortals are not aware of the
Strigoi, they do not know they exist. Those who do
know they exist have strong physic powers and often
become a companion of a Strigoi. They however do have
enforcers who control the vampires in each city across
the U.S. The enforcers are like cops to the Strigoi.
They protect the laws of the Strigoi and keep the
other vampires from breaking them. They are also in
charge of when they can hunt and when they cannot.
In the world of the Strigoi they only feed when the
lead enforcer of the city says they can feed and hunt.
If they go outside his laws, they are hunted down and
killed. 

I could go on and on telling you about the Strigoi
and their ways of life, but what fun would that be if
I told you everything, instead of you reading them
yourselves. I highly recommend these books, they are
very good and if you like different tales of the
undead, then these novels are for you.