She is perky, but also dark in a goth sort of way. Abby is both simple and complex-simple in a way that will make you feel a protective glow of affection for her, and complex in a way that does justice to her dread of being considered perky. The sum of all this is a lingo that at times is nearly incomprehensible-to the other characters as well as to us.

Abby talks in a pidgin of internet-chat abbreviations, heavily paraphrased literary allusions, pop-culture references, and hipster slang, with some made-up expressions of her own thrown in. Ever… the underage vampire-minion who calls herself Abby Normal. But that wouldn’t do justice to a series of hilarious, raunchy, and sometimes touching books that give a refreshing shakedown to an all-too-earnest genre: the vampire novel.īoldly satirizing the darkness that certain rebellious teens and aimless twenty-somethings choose to fill their inward emptiness, it risks a third of its narration on the first-person voice of the Most. Leave it to me to start a trilogy with the third book! Now I’m going to have to go back and read Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, both subtitled “A Love Story.” One could seriously apply the title “Love Story” to this entire trilogy (as one website actually does).

The opening chapter of this book was so insanely fast-paced that I thought, “There’s no way the author can keep this up and even if he does, I’m not going to like it.” Fortunately, this turned out to be because this is the third book of a trilogy, and there was a lot of background from the previous two books to catch up on.

Bite Me by Christopher Moore