This was a very well researched book, I was half expecting to be reading it and inwardly dying at the unrealistic vampire stuff, but... Seth Grahame-Smith described the events in such a realistic way, I was almost half-believing it. However the ending (Abe's assassination) was a little dragged out. ...
Just a bit of note here: this one star (standing for 2 of 10) does not mean the book was written badly. No, on the contrary, it was really well written. Grammar, editing, all those things that sugar-coat the story were superb. But the story itself was dull and annoying... for me. It took me three mo...
Alt-history by the creator of that trend of adding monsters to fiction, starting with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which quite frankly, I rifled through once, saw the bits that had been added, winced at how they'd been added, and put it gently back down and backed away.See, that sounds like a gr...
A good read, and the author did an impressive job of inserting vampires into American history. Not quite so riveting as the hype/cover implies, but worth reading nonetheless.
Better than I was expecting considering I didn't like P&P&Z. There was just enough history and just enough vampire craziness. It all balanced and made for a pretty entertaining faux history. It reads like a screenplay, but it can be pretty dense so I can't help but wonder what the movie is like...
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