Bite
Me, Christopher
Moore (3.0)
Christopher
Moore is obviously a very clever writer.
What I found so disturbing about this, my first experience reading his
fantastical and irreverent humor, was that a grown man could write so utterly
convincingly in the voice of a teenage Goth ‘valley’ girl! In doing so, he has taken a very tired theme
(vampires) and refreshed it with non-stop humor. The main storyteller, Abigail Von Normal,
starts as a minion for two other recent vampires. While they attempt to navigate their way with
their new powers they find an odd phenomena, someone has turned a cat into a
vampire. This vamp cat, in turn, inadvertently ‘turns’ many other cats (nasty
exchange of bloods while humping) and San Francisco becomes overrun with
vampire cats. The silliness of the plot
aside, the ridiculous characters (homeless guy, thinking dogs, vampires, old
ninja guy) and Abby’s constant hysterically skewed priorities (as you’d expect
of a teenage girl) lighten the story and had me laughing out loud.
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