Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Bloodsucking Fiends
Book Review: Like a vampire Bridget Jones
Summary: 4 Stars
San Francisco, my favorite city, is the perfect setting for this weird combination of a vampire story and a kind of Bridget Jones career-girl novel (but much much funnier than either progenitor).
Christopher Moore's books usually start off with a chapter or two establishing the premise, then he appears to eat some weird mushrooms or something and get hallucinagenically funny. "Bloodsucking Fiends" is cheerfully wacko from the get-go when 26-year-old Jodi is attacked by a vampire in the first seconds of a book, turns into a creature of the night, and still manages to find true love with the night manager of a Safeway grocery store.
In fact, the love story bit was so winsome that I was a bit disappointed when the story got genuinely macabre in the last few pages. As usual though, Moore's devotion to lunacy and his sharply-written minor characters more than compensate for a few loose ends in the plot.
Book Review: Moore Strikes again
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite is still Lamb, but I laughed a lot with this one - out loud...Book Review: More good Moore
Summary: 3 Stars
Another wacky tale. Funny as usual. If you need a good laugh, Moore does not dissapoint.Book Review: My Favorite so far ...
Summary: 5 Stars
This one is my favorite of Moore's collection so far! This one made me laugh out loud and even though my husband was teasing me about reading a book with this title (and telling our sons that mommy "should" be reading more intellectual books ... ha ha) ~~ I would read pieces of this book out loud to him and he would laugh.
I don't know what it is about Moore's sense of humor, but he's hilarious! He's always digging up stuff and pointing out the absurdities of our lives today ~~ or our reading choices or anything. Everything is game for his humor and thank goodness, there's someone else out there who shares a sense of humor that isn't always so "pc" these days. He just tells it like it is and it's refreshing from all the books I normally read.
This one focuses on Jody, a red-head girl who was attacked by an older vampire and turned into one. Tommy is an Indiana greenhorn who moved to the big city to try his luck at writing and with the girls ~~ and the Emperor (who is in Moore's latest novel, "A Dirty Job") lines up a job for Tommy and even helps him find a place to live once Tommy realized that the five Chinese guys he's rooming with wanted to marry him so they could get a green card. Tommy and Jody meet and fall in lust and the rest, they say, is history. And it's hilarious.
This book is not as raunchy as "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" ~~ but it's just as funny if not funnier. So far, out of the books I've read, this one is the funniest and the best. Nothing spooky about this book and it's perfect for the Halloween reading list!
10-15-06
Book Review: Not Moore's best by a long shot
Summary: 3 Stars
Having read and enjoyed Lamb and A Dirty Job, I was disappointed by this one. The humor was at times too obvious -- I was occasionally pulled out of the narrative with the feeling that the author was winking at his readers instead of telling a story. The plot moved along at a good clip but came to an unsatisfying, too-easy resolution. The "bad guy" was an incomplete picture, someone whose motives and goals were never clear to me. And yet, despite these complaints, it was a fun read and easy to breeze through in a short time. I laughed out loud once or twice. I'm glad I read Bloodsucking Fiends, but I hope that the next Christopher Moore book I read is a better example of his work!