Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story is the third novel by Christopher Moore, published in 1995. It combines elements of the supernatural and of the romance novel.
Jody, a young single red-headed woman living in San Francisco, is attacked by a vampire 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 as...
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Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story is the third novel by Christopher Moore, published in 1995. It combines elements of the supernatural and of the romance novel.
Jody, a young single red-headed woman living in San Francisco, is attacked by a vampire 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 as a night clerk (and plays "turkey bowling") 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...
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