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| Bite Me |
Bite Me is the latest chapter in Christopher Moore’s exceedingly wacky vampire series. Told in turns by Abby Normal the Emergency Backup Mistress of the Greater Bay Area Night; Thomas Flood, author and reluctant vampire; Rivera, a cop who’s seen too much weirdness; and Jody, a vampire who is the most together person in the whole book, Bite Me has a lot of action packed into its 309 pages.
If you’ve read the first two books in the series, Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, you already know all the characters. If you haven’t read them, go immediately to the nearest library or bookstore and get copies. Even if you haven’t read them and don’t have time to catch up, Abby Normal provides an excellent summary at the beginning of Bite Me. Abby longs to be a vampire, and Moore has mastered the art of writing like a teenage goth with self-awareness issues. She is one of the best parts of this book.
In Bite Me, the plot chickens of the first two books have come home to roost. Through a series of absurd misadventures, vampire cats are roaming the night, killing San Francisco’s homeless. Because none of the character is particularly good at working together as a team, there are separate plots to rid the city of its undead feline menace that collide into each other. And, like in every good Moore book, mayhem ensues.
I know it sounds silly, but Moore has always had a gift for drawing readers into the hysterical weirdness of his plots. The problem is that when you try to describe what the book is about to others, people look at you like you’re a loon. Suffice it to say, Bite Me is a terrific book for people who love wackiness and inventive humor in their stories. The only problem with it, from my perspective, was that it ended far too soon.