Blood Sucking Fiends
by Christopher Moore
Byron Merritt

Jody, a semi-attractive redhead, is walking home one evening when she's attacked by someone. When she wakes up two nights later under a dumpster with a burned hand, some superhuman observation skills, and incredible strength, she knows that something is amiss.

Come to find out, Jody was attacked by a very old vampire who was looking for some company. Trouble is, this old vampire has had problems with past humans who he turned into his kind.

But Jody is different. She quickly learns (through some hilarious trial and error) what she can and cannot do. And thanks to C. Thomas Flood, a would-be writer who came to San Francisco to become 'the starving artist and find some excitement,' Jody will become all that she can possibly be.

From Midnight frozen turkey bowling at a local Safeway store, to drinking binges with forget-me-not hangovers and turtles who's demise is determined by bronze sculptors, this book has something for even the most hum-bug reader.

This novel will remain on my shelf to be read again and again whenever I need a good tickling of my funny-bone.

 

B.M.
FWOMP Book Review
June 2003