When a woman is attacked in an alley and wakes up a vampire she soon learns that her new lifestyle will require daylight support. To this end she employs a wannabe writer and grocery store night clerk to be her daytime errand boy. The two form a relationship and spend their time between testing out the limits of her new powers and trying to find the vampire who bit her so that they can kill him and, theoretically, return her to normal.
But when they do find the vampire in question their plan to kill him goes awry when the grocery store clerk and his colleges decide to steal his vast horde of treasure before blowing him up. The woman then steps in to save the vampire. He is, after all, the only one who can explain to her the how’s and why’s of her new life.
Once she discovers all she needs to know she shares her knowledge with her boyfriend and they incapacitate the old vampire with plans for a very long happy ever after.
A strange combination of horror, romance and mystery told with a humorous edge, this book really stood out as something completely different in the current explosion of the vampire stories.
I found the humour often laugh out loud funny. The characters’ behaviour seems both reasonable and believable, the more insane they acted, the easier it was to accept, and even identify with, them.
I would absolutely love to see this book translated to film. It would definitely be worth the price of admission. -Lynn
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