- Bloodsucking Fiends
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name = Bloodsucking Fiends:
A Love Story
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Christopher Moore
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country =United States
language = English
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genre = Romance,Comedy
publisher =Simon & Schuster
release_date =September 19 ,1995
media_type = Print (Hardcover )
pages = 304 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-684-81097-2
preceded_by =Coyote Blue
followed_by =Island of the Sequined Love Nun "Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story" is the third novel by Christopher Moore, published in
1995 . It combines elements of thesupernatural and of theromance novel .Jody, a young single red-headed woman living in
San Francisco , is attacked by avampire and soon realizes that she has become one herself. While trying to adjust to her new nocturnal lifestyle, she is aided by C. Thomas Flood ("Tommy"), a wannabe writer who just moved to town and works nights at a local supermarket. As Jody and Tommy begin their life together (and become attracted to each other), they also discover that a recent string of mysterious murders may be linked to the vampire who attacked Jody. To get to the bottom of the matter, they engage the help of Tommy's friends at work and a mysterious street person named "The Emperor"Despite the gruesomeness of the general story, there is a certain vampiric benevolence here in that Jody survives by preying upon people who are already very near death themselves (e.g.,
AIDS sufferers, etc.). This principle plays into hercameo appearance in the author's later novel "A Dirty Job ".A sequel to "Bloodsucking Fiends", entitled "", was published on
January 16 ,2007 .External links
* [http://www.chrismoore.com/fiends.html Author's webpage for "Bloodsucking Fiends"]
* [http://www.rambles.net/moore_fiends.html Review by Tom Knapp]
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