Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Somehow both silly and boring. I wanted to like it, and I do think the premise is interesting (once you get past the initial “well that's ridiculous” reaction). And maybe if World War Z hadn't already brilliantly pulled off the fake history book premise I wouldn't have held it to such a high standard.

Personally I think it would have been better if it was just Abe's journal or just a dry history book instead of the mildly annoying narrator's summary/interpretation of Abe's journal. There was a fair amount of historical research, but to me it felt too segmented and not part of the fictional story. There'd be detailed exposition about Abe's ridiculously fake exploits and then all of sudden an extended summary of the Dred Scott Case or the lost colony of Roanoke. Real Abe and Vampire Hunter Abe never connected for me, and that's a shame because it would have been awesome to learn about how a man reacts to that extreme political turmoil when he is both leader of the country and a slayer of mythical beasts.