A book I have recently started to read is called Revealed. It is part of a series, The House of Night series. Revealed is the 11th book in the series. In this books there is a serious issue between the vampyres and the humans of Tulsa, where the book is set. After the mayor is murdered by the antagonist in the book, the human population start to turn on the vampyre population. The vampyre is much like a vampire, only different rules. The real life issue here, though, is segregation. Although this is between to different species, they were all humans at one point in their life. This is not the big issue in the book, but it is definitely one of the most realistic. Just like in real life, some of the humans do accept the vampyre as equals, but most do not. At one point in the book, Neferet, a rogue vampyre out to take over the entire world, kills the mayor of Tulsa. The mayors wife was never accepting of the vampyres and she is very livid saying that one of the students at the academy killed her husband,when it was in fact Neferet. As she is talking to the police officer and the high priestess of the academy, she says "Thats normal for their kind. My husband was killed by a vampyre. That is not normal!" (Cast 38). As she goes on in the passage she tries to tell everyone that the vampyres should not be trusted and should not be allowed in tulsa. I chose this quote to exemplify the mayors wife's anger with the vampyres and how that anger can be turned into hatred. In the book, the words that are italicized are italicized to put stress on the fact that she is differing herself from the vampyres, almost as if to say 'they are less than us and are savages.'
We saw this happen after the civil war in America with the black population not totally being accepted by the white population. I think that is how the authors, P.C. and Kristin Cast, tried to bring in a real life situation into their writing. We, as readers only really get the side of the vampyre, but as they explain it the humans are becoming not too thrilled to have them in town. I have not read super far into the book, but I believe it is becoming more of an issue to the vampyre and sooner or later the humans will either attack them or do something harmful to the vampyre.
If you are unaware of what happened after the civil war, here is a link that you can go and find out about everything: http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/segregated-america.html
