Bloodsucking Fiends
| Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Christopher Moore |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Romance, Comedy, Horror |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | September 19, 1995 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 304 pp |
| ISBN | 0-684-81097-2 |
| OCLC Number | 32129988 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 20 |
| LC Classification | PS3563.O594 B58 1995 |
| Preceded by | Coyote Blue |
| Followed by | Island of the Sequined Love Nun |
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story is the third novel by Christopher Moore, published in 1995. It combines elements of the supernatural and of the romance novel.
[edit] Plot summary
Jody, a young single red-headed woman living in San Francisco, is attacked by a vampire and soon finds that she's become one herself. While trying to adjust to her new nocturnal lifestyle, she's aided by C. Thomas (Tommy) Flood, a wannabe writer who just moved to town and works as a night clerk (and champion "turkey bowler") at a local Safeway. As Jody and Tommy begin their life together (and become attracted to each other), they also discover that a recent string of mysterious murders may be the work of the vampire who attacked Jody. To get to the bottom of the matter, they engage the help of Tommy's coworkers ("the Animals") and an eccentric street person known as "The Emperor."
[edit] Appraisal
Despite the gruesomeness of the general story, there is a certain vampiric benevolence here in that Jody survives by preying upon people who are already very near death themselves (e.g., AIDS sufferers, etc.). This principle plays into her cameo appearance in the author's later novel A Dirty Job.
Bloodsucking Fiends is the first volume of a trilogy, followed by You Suck: A Love Story (2007) and Bite Me (2010).
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