Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

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Summary: Always something happening keeping you on your toes.
Review: Great love story with hilaious happenings continously going on. Its funny, makes you laugh out loud, I love the way it keeps you wondering whats going to happen next ,it is another can't put the book down until I'm finished. Thanks we all need to laugh out loud and your books do that trick. Keep up the good work

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Summary: NOT your usual vampire story...in a GOOD way.
Review: If you're tired of reading over-romanticized, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-undead, angst-ridden, uninspired vampire stories (but can't NOT read vampire stories), pick this one up. Not only does it give a new perspective on vampires...it gives you an insight into what you DIDN'T want to know about how your local grocery store functions after hours..

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Summary: This book was a blast to write.
Review: I've never had so much fun. I didn't think that a vampire novel was the vehicle to explore heavy themes, so I was freed up to just create fun characters and let them go at it. The main characters, Tommy and Jody, are booth pretty sharp in a smartassed way, and to play them off of each other was more like watching a funny movie than writing. Sometimes writing can be incredibly difficult, and you have to beat your head against the wall to get the book to work. With Fiends, it was pure joy

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Summary: The Vampire and Her Boy
Review: A book you read in a day -- too good to put down and too funny not to share with a friend. The perils and pitfalls -- not to mention the humor and romance -- of dating and cohabitating with someone who isn't as alive (or as undead) as you are. Witty, sometimes kinky, and above all fun! One of the four books I've ever read that works, cover to cover.
Books don't get any better than this.

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Summary: SWF seeks romantic nights; idle (very idle) days
Review: Charmingly naive young man meets, falls in love with, and then finds it's not easy living with a gorgeous vampire. Improvisation is called for in the form of window shades, freeazer chest, and ... snapping turtles??? Angered and menacing vampire gent adds another level of challenge. Wow! This energetically hilarious story passed the ultimate test: my wife became suspicious when she heard me laughing out loud (something I do every 25,000 books or so). Then she read it and understood. Christopher Moore delivers fast-paced supernatual hijinks, with a peppering of pinpoint jabs at the inanity of modern urban living. The dialog must be among the wittiest of any American author today. It's one thing to chuckle over a funny quote; a real treat to laugh anew when deadpan rejoinders add a whole new twist to the humor. Add a host of imaginative complications, and the reader had better hang on for this wild jaunt. Like Moore's other novels (_Coyote Blue_ Practical Demonkeeping_) the satire is decidedly upbeat. He manages to let the redemptive qualities of his characters sneak through all the farcical shenanigans. As a result, you'll cheer for these night-shift kids as they stumble all over themselves (and a few bodies) to find true happiness. A book easily finished before sunrise!

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Summary: great Sci/Fi comedy
Review: It may be strange to say but I know people like these characters. The girl that can't be without a boyfriend... The cute boy that's too nice to attract girls... the punk guys working blue collar jobs... the jerk ex... the manipulitive ass who really wants someone - can have anyone - but doesn't know how to find the right someone.
Maybe that's why the book is so much fun. It's relatable to some extent. Even with the vampires.
Somebody that reviewed this said the characters felt distant. I agree. I also think that on a whole, it's easier to laugh at a distance. It's when you're too close that it's no longer funny (forget who said that). This isn't supposed to be a Anne Rice novel and thank god. It's violent, dark, honest, sweet and funny. Without shoving it down your throat.
Excellent writing and story.

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Summary: bloodsucking funny
Review: Christopher Moore is absolutely brilliant, many of us already know this. That being said, this is by far the best of his books I've read. I picked it up with a little bit of "I don't like vampire books much" bias. WRONG. I read the first 20 pages and then didn't stop until I finished it. When you sit down to read this book, make sure you have nothing planned for the next few hours, because you WILL NOT be able to put it down.

Moore takes us into a world of vampires, love and humor in a way that no other author could ever dream of. You will laugh out loud and actually develop feelings for the characters in this book. You will love some of them, and despise others.

Bloodsucking Fiends was a relatively quick and simple read, yet one of my new favorite books. I will recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: a must read
Review: light, refreshing and fun to read, based on this book i am now ordering his other books and if they are 1/2 as good as this i would have spent my money well.

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Summary: Moore leaves you wanting more!
Review: I've greatly enjoyed getting to know Christopher Moore. Someone, he alluded me until around the summer of 2004, so I'm madly working on catching up. What I've enjoyed about all his books is not only the totally insane, off-kilter hilarity of his outrageously conceived plots, but the rich characters. So often "humor" novels spend more time with strange plot machinations and forget to develop rounded characters one cares about. Christopher Moore "gets" that problem and he works hard to make his characters memorable and even "believable" within their alternate worlds. Some of his books are funnier than others (LUST LIZARD OF MELANCHOLY COVE made me laugh out loud more than others), but they all have a core of humanity that is recognizable to those of us who don't live in supernatural worlds.

I've also appreciated that Moore doesn't have an obvious axe to grind. Again, in many humorous stories, the author is often satirizing something for a political or social purpose. This is okay, but it often saps the humor from the story. Sometimes it's great just to kick back and laugh for no good reason. Christopher Moore delivers that.

BLOODSUCKING FIENDS has great characters and a delightfully silly plot, involving modern day vampires and the men who love them. For me personally, it wasn't quite as laugh-out-loud funny as the others I've read, but don't let this dissuade you. It is a book to make you smile and feel good. Moore has a deep-down faith in humanity that shines through even his most hapless characters. People get themselves into pickles by following their basest urges...they get themselves out of them by acting ethically or even bravely.

You don't need to be a vampire or horror-genre fan to enjoy the book. It isn't written to scare you or even make you break a sweat. It's not gory. It's just fun. Pure fun. And the characters are rich enough to make you care a bit.

Moore will never win a Nobel prize, but there's also no one out there quite like him. I recommend all his books to adult readers.


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Summary: A Truly Unique Love Story With Bite
Review: After being attacked the night before, Jody wakes up beneath a dumpster. Her hand is burned and, surprsingly, she finds herself endowed with incredible strength and the ability to sense people's auras which leads her to the grim discovery that she is now a vampire. Determined to find out who did this to her and why, she seeks out the help of a lonely young writer named C. Thomas Flood, newly arrived to San Francisco and trying to fend off the charms of his new Chinese roommates. Together, Flood and his new love Jody scour the city to find the root of her problems before more bodies start to pile up.

From start to finish, I could not put this book down even while I was laughing out loud. Strong, funny characters; a biting (no pun) wit; and an incredible story with great pacing make this one incredible read. Author Christopher Moore re-works the traditional vampire story with a wonderful twist of two people falling in love and trying to understand how they fit into the world. All that you know about vampires is put to the test, examined, re-examined and re-worked into a very readable and enjoyable tale.