History Literature / BloodBooks

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: ''Blood Trail''. Werewolves do not have any special immunity to things like getting shot. This serves as a clue for Vicki, since the person hunting the werewolves is using silver bullets, which are expensive and would risk attracting attention to the killer. One of the werewolves is a policeman and his partner, who knows he is a werewolf, has seen him get injured by a gunshot before. Thus he is not a candidate to be the killer because he knows that he wouldn't need silver bullets.

* {{Polyamory}}: Vicki dates both Mike and Henry with their knowledge (if not exactly ungrudging support, since the two men don't get along very well) until circumstances/moving adjust the situation. Henry dates both Vicki and Tony, with a lot less angst between the parties involved there.

* UndeadTaxExemption: Henry, to a degree. He pays taxes and has all the ID the average civilian would think to look for - but to a police officer doing a thorough examination [[spoiler: (Mike, in a fit of very poorly concealed jealousy that's pointed out by...everyone, really)]] there are enough holes to "drive a Mack truck through". [[spoiler: Mike suspects Henry of being in the Mafia, as a result. He's very surprised, when he confronts Vicki with this and she laughs at him when he says it.]]
* VampiresAreRich: Vicki flat out asks Henry why this isn't the case for him. While he does make a good living, he isn't as wealthy as he was when he was a duke, and Henry explains that being long-lived does not make them fortune tellers; he would've had no idea how a stock would perform in the future, so he couldn't just snap them up when they were cheap.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: One of the zombies in Blood Pact, whom they call number nine, is very attached to Caroline, the only researcher who treats him with a kind of affection you'd give to a pet. Otherwise he is a walking rotting corpse, and the few people who encounter him react accordingly. Daniel, one of the scientists who works with Caroline, was in an argument with her and number nine kills him, not knowing any other way to stop him from being loud and angry. Later, he's very protective of Caroline when Vicki and company confront her in the laboratory.

* GhostlyGoals: ''Blood Debt'' introduces ghosts into the mix. Henry suddenly finds himself haunted by one who wants revenge on its murderer. While Henry would otherwise prefer not to intervene, they tend to let out some sort of ghost wail that ends up killing first an elderly woman and then a baby in Henry's apartment building. The only way to help them move on is to find the killer and bring them to justice - although what the notion of "justice" for ghosts is revenge and death instead of plain incarceration.
* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: In ''Blood Lines'', the belief of the immortal sorcerer-priest Tawfik has kept his personal god, Akhekh, alive for a very long time. Unfortunately for him, once the protagonists find out about Akhekh, their belief works just as well, and when Akhekh decides Tawfik isn't performing to expectations it lets him die.

** At least part of why Vicki and Tony expressed romantic interest in Henry at first was from how ''good'' it felt to be bitten, though Vicki makes sure not to make it a habit. Its fair to say that a good number of Henry's other dalliances felt the same way.

* HopelessSuitor: Henry, to an extent; post Blood Pact he and Vicki cannot stand to be around one another due to their vampire-like instincts, and Tony finds himself a boyfriend in his own spin-off. One attempt he makes at dating through the internet has him meet up with a succubus who, reluctantly, gets roped up with him in removing a dangerous supernatural creature...and the next attempt has him meet up with a male djinn. Both times the respective parties recognized whom the other was on sight, and neither time were they exactly happy they hadn't gotten a normal human on a date.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Henry is still on the Catholic side of the Reformation centuries later and expresses disapproval of his father's schism and divorces. However, Henry himself is bisexual, and a vampire. Neither of which would endear him to the Catholic Church were he an active parishioner, either in the present or especially back during the 16th Century.
* InterspeciesRomance: Henry and the humans he dates. He also (accidentally) dates a succubus and a djinn in one of the Blood Bank short stories.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: ''Blood Price'' has demons trying to enter the world.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: ''Blood Debt'' has one trying to force Henry to avenge his death.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The usual garlic/cross stuff doesn't affect Catholic Henry. Also, Henry thinks that vampires can't really hang around other vampires without having territorial issues, although Vicki seems to prove it's not as absolute a rule as he thought.

* TriangRelations: From ''Blood Trail'' to ''Blood Pact'', it's a type 7: Vicki clearly loves both Henry and Mike, both of whom also love her back.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Henry actually has a night job that he makes money from (see below), but he seems to have saved up well over the years. Plus, well, the crime-fighting with Vicki.

* HornyDevils: Succubi and incubi devour life force through sex much like vampires feed on blood, and apparently they kill this way sometimes too.

* VampiresAreRich: Vicki flat out asks Henry why this isn't the case for him. While he does make a good living, he isn't as wealthy as he was when he was a duke, and Henry explains that being long lived does not make them fortune tellers; he would've had no idea how a stock would perform in the future, so he couldn't just snap them up when they were cheap.

* TheyFightCrime: In multiple pair-ups.

* DistressedDude: Henry gets captured by MadScientist[=s=] at one point.

* Mundanger: In ''Blood Trail'', the antagonist is completely human, albeit a religious zealot who is a very good shot. In ''Blood Pact'', it's a completely non-magical MadScientist trio who use biotechnology to create {{Artificial Zombie}}s.

* CurseThatCures: Victoria is slowly going blind from Retinitis Pigmentosa. But she refuses to allow Henry to turn her into a vampire.

The Blood series by Creator/TanyaHuff is a set of five books (and plenty of short stories) that was eventually adapted into the television show ''Series/BloodTies''. It takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, except for the last book being in UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}. The heroine is DefectiveDetective Vicki Nelson, whose retinitis pigmentosa forced her to quit being a cop and become an OccultDetective. Her off-and-on boyfriend[=/=]ex-partner Mike Celluci is not terribly thrilled with her choice of lifestyle. Then Vicki ends up meeting FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Henry Fitzroy and partners with/dates/donates blood to him on a regular basis. The fourth main character is Tony Foster, a homeless kid that Vicki recruits to help give Henry blood, and ends up involved with Henry as well.

* RomanceNovel: Henry writes them under the PenName "Elizabeth Fitzroy." Mike makes fun of him for this constantly.
--> '''Vicki''': Elizabeth Fitzroy?
--> '''Henry''': Why ''not'' Elizabeth Fitzroy? She certainly had as much right to the name as I do. [[note]]"Fitzroy" is the name given to a king's bastard; Henry is snarking about Queen Elizabeth being born to the second wife of their shared father.[[/note]]

* TragicVillain: ''Blood Trail'' [[spoiler: has the villain as a aversion of TheFundamentalist in that the man is a good, kind, and upstanding person who just assumed that werewolves were evil monsters. He is DrivenToSuicide to realize otherwise.]]