Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story Summary and Reviews

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
by Christopher Moore

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
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Author: Christopher Moore
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1996-10-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Book Reviews of Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

Book Review: Hilariouis vampire send-up.
Summary: 4 Stars

Anne Rice may be rolling on the floor with laughter at Christopher Moore's allusions to her Vampire Lestat and the conventions of the "vampire genre." With an imagination that's wild, irreverent, hyper, sexy, and just plain wacky, Moore has created vampires have the some of the same abilities and needs as Rice's, but Moore's vampires inhabit their own crazy world. Here there is even a good, innocent, fledgling vampire, like Jody Stroud, forced by events beyond her control to be a vampire, and an evil vampire who performs gruesome crimes and tries to frame her.

Jody, the unwilling vampire, even has a lover who wants to help her and who continues to live with her, more or less taking her vampirism for granted, or at most considering it just another way in which she "does her own thing." As would-be writer Tommy Flood tries to save Jody from blame for several murders in the seamier parts of San Francisco, described with a great deal of tongue-in-cheek humor, he enlists his buddies on the midnight to eight a.m. shift of a supermarket, who put aside their turkey-bowling (a 12-lb frozen Butterball knocks down more Ivory Liquid bottles than a 14-pounder) to help out.

The book is both hilarious and intriguing, with more crazy, unexpected plot twists than one finds in a whole shelf of traditional murder mysteries. The hardest part of reading Christopher Moore is rationing oneself to just one book at a time! Mary Whipple

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