The Last American Vampire

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / Grahame-Smith, Seth
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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"New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges. THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. It will be an expansive journey that will first send him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Along the way, Henry goes on the road in a Kerouac-influenced trip as Seth Grahame-Smith ingeniously weaves vampire history through Russia's October Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, and the JFK assassination. Expansive in scope and serious in execution, THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE is sure to appeal to the passionate readers who made Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a runaway success"-- Provided by publisher.

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A fun summer read submitted by Bakalm on June 29, 2019, 11:57pm I went into this book from its predecessor, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I didn't enjoy this book quite so much as that one; while ALVH was more grounded than I had expected, this was the opposite. Too often, I felt like the author was rubbing an obvious conclusion in our faces, so that the subversion would be a "surprise". The antagonist was also woefully undercharacterized. Still, it was a good way to kill some time, and I enjoyed it while I was reading it.