Bite Me: A Love Story

Abby Normal wants to become a vampire but instead she's living with her older boyfriend and watching over the statues of Jody and Flood to make sure they come to no harm. There are vampire cats roaming the city killing everything in site and Abby with her boyfriend and a couple of cops are trying to stop Chet the lead vampire cat from destroying the city. Christopher Moore always has offbeat characters and I wind up laughing a lot.

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So, in what has become a trend for me lately, I picked this up without realizing that it was #3 in a series. Unlike the other books I've reviewed recently, I'd say definitely pick up the other two books first! For the entire first chapter of this one, I was struggling mightily to catch up, and I could not for the life of me figure out why we'd started midway through the action, haha.

That said though only perhaps half of the book is from Abby's perspective (her diary/blog, extremely “voice-y” and funny but also sometimes rocketship-fast and hard to follow). The rest of the book is in close third person following other main characters, and it's much easier to get your bearings.

I don't mean to scare people off–I did enjoy the book–but I did work at it a bit. I also wondered for what purpose our protagonist was so young; maybe because that adds to the humor, perhaps, or for some reason explained in the earlier books? It didn't really strike me as a YA, aside from the very informal voice. Still, there's no denying it's creative and gothically funny!