Review by Luckietides
Audio Book obtained from a local library
Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, gives us the secret life of the sixteenth U.S. President in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The pages of Lincoln's lost journals detail his life from boyhood -- when he vows to avenge his mother's death at the hands of a vampire -- to his final days as President, long after he'd retired his stakes and his axe. As a young lawyer and vampire hunter, Lincoln stumbles upon the driving force behind the institution of slavery one night as he sees a horrifying ritual taking place in a plantation owner's barn. This cements his commitment to ending slavery and killing vampires.
The author relates well-known historical details of Lincoln's life, weaving the vampire story throughout. While still portrayed as a beloved President, Grahame-Smith's Lincoln is also a lean, mean, vampire-killing machine. There is a bit of gore involved, as Abe pursues his life's goal of ridding the world of vampires, axe in hand, but it doesn't overwhelm the narrative. Lincoln's relationships with his family are messy and complicated, as are most family relationships, but the portrayal of his devotion to his wife and sons, and his despair at the deaths in his family, ring true. Perhaps most complicated is Lincoln's relationship with Henry Sturgess, vampire, mentor, and friend.
I enjoyed the first person point of view from Lincoln himself, who comes through as intelligent, kind-hearted, courageous, and in possession of a good sense of humor, despite his moonlighting job as vampire assassin. I borrowed this book-on-CD from my local library. The reader did a fine job jumping from character to character, and I liked his voice for Lincoln: a slight accent, but nothing annoying.
On a five point scale, I'd give it a four: it held my interest throughout; it was entertaining and fast-paced; it combined two topics I've always enjoyed reading about (but never imagined combined into the same story!): Lincoln and vampires. A good story, it made my commute time fly by.
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