Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Ratings25
Average rating3.9
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Ratings25
Average rating3.9
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. Gifted with legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, young Abe Lincoln sets out to avenge the death of his mother at the hands of a vampire.
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It's an entertaining pulpy vampire story with some clever twists on historical events, it just doesn't live up to the over-the-top potential of its ridiculous premise. I liked it enough.
I quite enjoy the way Seth Grahame-Smith takes the bizarre unexplainable parts of history and creates explanations that fit into his universe. The whole thing reads simply as though it were a biography on Lincoln and if it weren't for the occasional vampire you wouldn't think otherwise.
More of 3.5 stars, but not an option.
I quite enjoyed this one, finding the blend of “excerpts” of Lincoln's journals along with the “historical” prose to be an effective manner of telling the story. It was an interesting exercise to couch so much of Lincoln's life in the terms of vampiric action and manipulation.
While the book is never really exciting, save for brief moments here and there, it is interesting. Not a must read, but an entertaining alternate history book with a satisfying, though not surprising at all, twist at the end.
Series
2 primary booksAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Seth Grahame-Smith.
