Bloodsucking Fiends | Christopher Moore | Officially one of my favorite Vampire novels

Bloodsucking Fiends | Christopher Moore | Could not put it down...

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Bloodsucking Fiends

	Bloodsucking Fiends Christopher Moore Harper Paperbacks, 2004 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 145 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Officially one of my favorite Vampire novels

This is one of the few books that my husband read before me, and I had to sit there listening to him howl with laughter while I patiently waited for him to finish it. Many times he was brought to tears and had to stop reading so that he could breath. Now I was never brought to hysterics, but this IS a funny book. A vicious satire of vampire life, youthful dreams, and relationships without ever becoming a mushy romance or a bloodthirsty horror.

A short summary: Jody is a pretty redhead who wakes up under a dumpster after what she thought was a mugging to discover that she is a vampire. Unfortunately she never liked horror so she knows nothing about vampires. She enlists the help of a local night-shift grocery worker and aspiring writer to help her figure out how to negotiate her new lifestyle. Meanwhile the vampire that made her is leaving a trail of dead bodies throughout San Francisco and all the signs are pointing to her.

This book is funny, it's characters real... I would say they were over the top, but unfortunately I've known too many people like them to dismiss this as absurd. Though this is no great masterwork of literature, it is well written and extremely fun to read. Right at 300 pages I finished it in 2 hours, hesitating to put it down at all.

Now this book won't be for everyone, if you are looking for horror, this isn't it. If you are looking for sappy romance... well there's some romance but it's not the kind you are looking for, and if you are looking for Douglas Adams does Vampires for comedy, again you will be disappointed. Still this book is a really fun trip, enough fun that I ordered "You Suck: A Love Story" the sequel right away.

Happy Reading!

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Could not put it down...

I've read a number of books by Christopher Moore, and this is by far my favorite. Very entertaining! If you've read "You Suck", "Lamb", "My Dirty Job", "Coyote Blue" - this one is better! (Though I liked those other books too).

An ode to the city I love

Chancing on the first Christopher Moore book (Practical Demonkeeping) in a news stand on a Saturday long ago was one of the happier events in my literary life. This book was just a kick in the pants as it's set in the big City next door, San Francisco. I'll never look at the City the same way - Chinatown, the Marina , and other landmarks are celebrated in ways that make them even more memorable.

Mr Moore has an engaging turn of phrase - the characters internal monologues kind of get lodged in your head and affect the way you think. And you will never think of being a vampire as a goth, lace, wrapped in black sort of experience. It's a dodge the daylight, what do I eat, how do I deal with this kind of joyride.

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my favorite Moore book

My first Christopher Moore book, and my favorite still. Will make you LOL! After this read Fluke and Lamb, they are fantastic too. You Suck was good, I just finished The lust lizard of melancholy cove, it was not Mr. Moore's best work, I'd avoid that one. Next on the list Practical Demon keeping and I'm hoping for another winner!

Not Your Typical Vampire Tale, But Chuckles Abound

After the side-splitting laughter of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore, I knew that I needed to give this writer more opportunities to make me laugh. I chose Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story after poring through the descriptions of his various novels mostly on a whim and I'm glad that I did.

The major characters, Tommy and Jody, while perhaps an unlikely pair had they met under normal circumstances given Jody's usual choices of men (she admits to Tommy that she's lived with ten men already at the ripe old age of 26 and he's only been intimate with two women after getting so drunk he can't remember the occasions the next morning) are a pair I cheered for here. He's a geeky wannabe writer who has moved to California because his father has pushed him from the family home in Incontinence, Indiana because writers must starve in the City. Jody is a gorgeous tall redhead who typically falls in with jerks and doesn't last long with them. Oh, and a not-so-minor detail here, but she has also just become a vampire.

Don't expect the typical vampire story or even the typical vampire love story because this is no Anne Rice or Stephenie Meyers. Mr. Moore tosses in a nice big dose of raunchy boy nastiness. Tommy's paying job is to night manage supermarket stock 'boys' which frequently amounts to a bunch of guys sitting around swilling beer and ogling T&A. So if you don't think you can find any of that humorous, stay away. Personally, I thought it was hysterical as he writes it from a "goodness, don't these typical guys look/sound like morons?" POV.

The book reads fast and our heroes move quickly through the story trying to figure out who is killing people and leaving their lifeless bodies (drained off much of their blood) in places that will connect them to the crime in some way before they end up in big trouble.

A funny, fast-paced, sexy mystery that has a sequel (You Suck: A Love Story) which I will read soon!

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