Bloodsucking Fiends
ISBN: 9781841497228
Description
Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realises the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway.
Reviewed on 23rd March 2025
It’s the 90s, it’s San Francisco, and it’s a vampire. Christopher Moore puts together another bizarre collection of comedy characters to explore what happens to ordinary people’s lives when someone unexpectedly becomes a vampire.
It’s old now, and clearly it’s trying to be satire, but still feels like it’s not quite escaped yet from some of the tropes it thinks it’s trying to take the mickey out of.
While it’s the fourth of Moore’s novels that I’ve read, it’s an earlier written one, and I’m not sure he’s yet developed the style of humour that I appreciated most in Lamb. It will be interesting to see how this changes when I get to the later vampire novels and see how they align.
Overall, a middling novel. I wasn’t as engaged as I wanted to be, but equally I wasn’t disengaged.