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Bite Me: A Love Story |  | Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: William Morrow
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061779725
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The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. 'Cept there's no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they're vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue. Abby wants to be a bloodsucking fiend, too, but right now she's really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high Skankenstein® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there's that vampire cat Chet, who's getting bigger and smarter—and thirstier—by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, mais non . . . Before you can say "OMG! WTF?" Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby's gay Goth friend Jared, and SF's finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that's when the fun really begins.
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 Rawr is totally a thing... January 22, 2010
Susan Tunis (San Francisco, CA)
52 out of 56 found this review helpful
In my rave review of Moore's last novel, Fool, I implied that his novels inspired by Shakespeare and the Bible are more substantive than his fluffier San Francisco/Pine Cove novels. This latest novel, Bite Me, has me rethinking that statement. Funny, it is. Fluffy, it is not. Bite Me is the third (and final?) novel in the Bloodsucking Fiends series. The first novel in a great series is always special because it's our introduction to a new world. That said, this latest installment just might be the best. What I can tell you is this: I found it to be darker, scarier, more suspenseful, and at least as funny as the previous novels. And in addition to all of the above, it's genuinely moving. These characters have been my friends for more than a decade now. I've grown to care about them.
The novel opens pretty much in the immediate wake of You Suck. The opening chapter is the first of many that are narrated by the unforgettable Abby Normal, self-proclaimed "emergency back-up mistress of the greater Bay Area night." Abby begins by providing a dizzying (and helpful) recap of the first two novels, but I'd strongly suggest you read Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story and You Suck: A Love Story before tackling this one. She and Foo Dog still inhabit the "love lair." Jody and Tommy are still encased in bronze. Chet, the huge shaved vampire cat is on the prowl. And all of our favorite San Franciscans are back: the Emperor, Bummer, and Lazarus; the Animals; cops Rivera and Cavuto; the folks from Asher's Secondhand Store; and others. And Moore fans, a beloved past character who's never shown up in San Francisco before makes an unexpected appearance in a supporting role. Be careful what you read about this novel. It would be a shame to ruin the surprise!
I don't want to summarize the plot. It's too crazy, it lurches in all sorts of unexpected directions, and why should I ruin your fun? What I can tell you is that I was completely surprised by the novel's ending. Earlier I said this novel is darker, scarier, and more suspenseful. (At this point I should admit that I'm a total wuss who's afraid of horror movies and rollercoasters.) Still, characters are placed in real jeopardy. Not all will survive. And I was definitely on the edge of my seat for large stretches of the novel. That Moore can maintain this level of tension while being spit-milk-out-your-nose funny is astonishing. I didn't actually spit any milk out of my nose. I read this novel while laid up with the flu. Every time I laughed out loud it started a coughing jag. I nearly coughed up a lung, but I just couldn't put it down! If that's not a recommendation, what is?
Despite aphorisms about old dogs and new tricks, I have to say it: I think Chris Moore is getting better. I've been a hardcore fan for years, and that is saying quite a bit.
Abby-Dabba-Do! January 31, 2010
Nicole Del Sesto (Northern Cal)
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
Who, but Christopher Moore, can give you a book with both tender moments, and fart jokes? Nobody I can think of, and that's one of the things that makes him so brilliant.
In Bite Me, we return to the streets of San Francisco, (as much a character in the book as the humans ... and the various assorted other creatures), picking up where You Suck: A Love Story left off. Much of the book is told from the perspective of Abby Normal, and OMFG I LOVE HER!
I found this book to be slightly more sophisticated than the previous two. A novel you can really (ready?) sink your teeth into. And I'm not just saying that because the pun works. With all the vampire fiction out there these days, vampire lore can get really tired. There were some unique aspects in this book which really put a fresh spin on things, and frankly some fun kind of sciencey stuff that gave it some of that aforementioned substance.
Never to be taken for granted, and always worthy of mention is Moore's humor. The book started funny, it stayed funny, it ended funny. So many "comic" novels have laugh out loud starts, which sort of dwindle away as the story progresses. Not so with Bite Me. Many, many, laugh out loud moments.
Do you have to have read Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story and You Suck to read this one? Probably not, there's enough background information given, but why wouldn't you?
 Maybe it's just me... February 10, 2010
Xina143 (Culpeper, VA USA)
23 out of 29 found this review helpful
But I didn't dig this installment as much as the first two! "Bloodsucking Fiends" was great! It had just the right amount of snarky sarcasm. It wasn't over the top, but it pushed the limits and almost went there. "You Suck" introduced us to Tommy and Jody's minion-Abby Normal. A little goth girl with a hankering to be 'nosferatu' (as she puts it). And finally, we get "Bite Me" and I have to say, I am a bit disappointed.
This book is told from Abby's point of view, and along the way she discover that Abby isn't quite as Goth as she wants us all to think. She is a confused, silly little girl. That isn't to say Moore doesn't slay with a few one liners, and he introduced us to a lonely old man-Okata-that I want to know more about. (Truth be told, he was the most interesting character in the book to me) Jody and Tommy didn't do a whole lot here, but then neither did Abby.
Chet, the giant, shaved vampire cat had a bigger role, but we didn't get to the crux of the story until about 80% of the way into the book, which means for me the ending was a little rushed, and a little too predictable.
It was funny, I will say that, but it didn't have that edge that the earlier two did, not for me anyways.
Moore's Worst Book Still Manages To Be Better Than Most February 22, 2010
Alexander Lucard (Arlington, VA)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
Look, I love Christopher Moore's work. I have nearly every book he has written as autographed first printings. I generally find him witty, insightful and hilarious.I love his use of continuity and my two favourite books by him are easily Practical Demonkeeping and A Dirty Job: A Novel. I've always found his vampire books to be his weakest writing with You Suck: A Love Story being his worst. Until now. Bite Me lacked a lot of Moore's usual comedy genius and in truth, it was a book that really didn't need to be written considering how You Suck ended. Still, it's here and after reading the third (and hopefully final) book in the "Bloodsucking Fiends" trilogy, I really hope it's the last. There were snippets of Moore's brillance but the truth is the book feel slike it was written for the sake of be written than any real passion or care being put into it.
The thing that annoyed me most is we had 300+ pages of a book that ends in nearly the same way the second book ended - with C. Thomas Flood (who has lost his author-esque fake C) and Jody realizing that they want different things in life...er, death...er, undeath. Whatever. This whole book felt padded, drawn out and in search of a real plot only to come back to what the same plot resolution as You Suck. Sure there are a few differences, like some characters dead and some romantic entanglements ending while others begin, but for the most part the book was pretty unnecessary and there really was little to no character to developement at all. It was just dredging up old characters and letting them have crazy hijinx for no real reason.
Second, the writing was by far Moore's worst. Usually I laugh nonstop at his books and also marvel at how well written the plot and characters are. Not here. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, there is no character development. There are only brief glimmers of comedy gold, but for the most part, and I hate to admit it, I was bored throughout the entire novel. I was waiting for something interesting or amusing to happen and it never did.
Third, there was just a lot of stupid stuff going on. Abby Normal somehow graduated from unlikeable in You Suck to the most annoying character I've had to read in a long time. Any chapter she narrated was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Then there was the plot of vampire cats with the lead cat, who was perfectly normal in his last vampire outing, starts turning into a half-man, half-cat vampire and another character later becomes part rat. If it was supposed to be funny or even interesting, it failed miserably. It's also an example of a rare lapse in Moore's usual continuity. The main vampire cat was shaved bald before becoming a vampire, yet when it was turned into a member of the undead, it stayed bald. Yet if a human is turned into a vampire, they lose any hair dye, tatoos, breast implants or anything else that isn't natural, and their hair goes back to normal. Yet this didn't happen for the cat, even as it becomes part human. This was a minor annoyance, but it's a great example of how poorly this book was written and put together compared to everything else Moore writes.
There is no way I can recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read the first two books in the series first and even then I would advise them it's Moore worst novel yet so perhaps they should try something else like The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror or Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Today Show Book Club #25) before picking this up.
Now I've bashed this book pretty hard and by Moore standards, this is indeed his worst book yet, but it's still a decent "thumbs in the middle" read compared to a lot of other fiction I've slogged through. Characters are consistent with their previous renditions and I'm always happy to see Rivera, who even as a mid-carder, shows up in more of Moore's books than anyone else. I also liked the nods to A Dirty Job and other bits by Moore, showing how contained this universe is. It's not an awful book, just one that pales when compared to the other books Moore has written. It's forgettable and at times dull, but it does have its moments.
A Toothy New Addition To Moore's Slacker Vampire Trilogy February 20, 2010
K. Harris (Las Vegas, NV)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
He's back! Christopher Moore returns to the city by the bay with his latest chapter of love, absurdity and vampirism in his uniquely original take on the underbelly of San Francisco. Moore's demented vision of the city he loves is a common denominator in many of his novels and several of its wacky environs wander into and out of unrelated books. But "Bite Me" reassembles all the players of his previous success stories "Bloodsucking Fiends" and "You Suck" and continues all the drama (OK, not so much), the romance (sort of) and the farce (definitely) that only Moore can deliver.
If you've read the prior books in the trilogy--you pretty much know what to expect from this lightweight comedic romp. If you haven't, however, this is NOT the place to start! Go back and sample "Bloodsucking Fiends" and proceed from there. "Fiends" set the standard for modern slacker vampire love stories and fans of that book and its sequel will surely be eager to devour (nifty pun, huh?) "Bite Me." Countess Jody, Dark Lord Tommy Flood, Goth minion Abby Normal, and all the other eccentric characters are back to do battle with a new calamity threatening San Fran. Chet, an enormous shaved vampire cat, is creating an army of hungry vampire kitties that are stalking the most vulnerable of the city's inhabitants. They've got to be stopped to keep the supernatural underworld from going public. I was going to say "in the dark" but let's not overuse those delightful puns. Adding to the problem, some previous foes also show up to keep things quiet in a most foul-intentioned way. Will our love starved heroes prevail? Will they even survive?
"Bite Me" is action packed and filled with laughs. It is ridiculous and delightful--the conception of Chet alone is worth the price of admission. "Bite Me" will breeze by as a quick and amusing read. And that's great! If you love these characters, check it out. But as I referenced earlier, this is not a starting point to new initiates of the Moore oeuvre. To enjoy all of its charms, you should start from the beginning. More comedic style than actual substance, however, "Bite Me" falls a little short of recent Christopher Moore titles. Coming off the highly ambitious "Fool" (one of my favorites of last year) and the strangely heartfelt "A Dirty Job," which shares some of the "Bite Me" characters, this is more of a throw-back to an earlier, simpler times. But that's OK--I live in a world where any Moore is good Moore!
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