I am a complete sucker for fiction books with footnotes, so this
one had a fan from the very beginning, but the snarky writing kept me as a fan
throughout.
Yulric Bile is an old school vampire. He’s pretty darn ugly, not easily killed and
sort of evil. When he awakens two
decades after being buried under the floor in a (now suburban) basement the
world has changed. Vampires are pretty,
gorgeous even. And they seem to be
good. And have television shows. And can go around making new vampires. Yulric is incensed but is glad to know that
vampires evolved in one good way, to his thinking at least, vampires are now
really easy to kill.
So it is that Yulric begins his quest to learn all he can about
modern times from the young woman, her very young brother and the television
that occupied the house he woke up underneath.
Looks like Yulric is going to need to call in reinforcements, more ugly,
scary vampires to wipe out the current scourge to the perfectly wonderfully
evil vampire name.
If you like dark comedy and find sparkly sweet vampires annoying
this book will give you some maniacal giggles.
I really enjoyed the way the author merged the vampires of ancient times
in different cultures with the pop culture vampires of today. Yulric is evil, but he has a point; vampires
are not nice creatures, shouldn’t be
nice creatures, and that is a good thing.
