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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
I think this is one of the most beautiful mixes of history and fantasy that I’ve ever read. It was really fun! Yes it definitely has its slow moments but it had me forgetting I wasn’t reading about the actual life of Lincoln— but his fictional one mixed with history facts.
Very well crafted and very believable!
Very well crafted and very believable!
If you like vampires and zombies and you dig all these kinds of books that have been coming out, you'll like this book regardless of any review. You needn't read on.
If you are like me and appreciate the camp humor of all this but haven't been too impressed, I have good news: this book didn't suck. The book takes itself so seriously that I totally believe Abraham Lincolin hunted vampires. I expect to see this as required reading in college US history classes. This is the Da Vinci Code of President-vampire-fiction, but with good writing.
If you are like me and appreciate the camp humor of all this but haven't been too impressed, I have good news: this book didn't suck. The book takes itself so seriously that I totally believe Abraham Lincolin hunted vampires. I expect to see this as required reading in college US history classes. This is the Da Vinci Code of President-vampire-fiction, but with good writing.
Why did we have to bring up the holocaust???
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Great fun, even better than "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." It's an amazingly detailed biography of Abraham Lincoln, with the delicately woven twist that the real problem in mid-nineteenth century America was vampires. Can't wait for the movie.
it is what it is... which is okay. A lot of it dragged on. But the underlying premise is funny enough to carry it for most the novel.
Okay, now moving on to something more interesting- not about this one book, but about a trend in books: can we talk about how "The South" is increasingly explained away via monsters, especially vampires. It's like the only way we can talk about the evils of slavery and the legacy of racism in the South (not that there isn't racism other places, but that it is getting talked about re: the South in this way) is to mask it with vampires-- like, "oh, slavery was so evil and the Civil War was so bad that it must have been monsters." Not the overarching concern of this book, of course, but I'm thinking of this coupled with a number of other monster-based narratives in/about the South that seem to suggest that it's not the work of humans, but evil monsters that mean we do bad things (I think, to an extent, "The Help" is guilty of this, too). Nope: people do these things. Slavery/racism, etc. happen because people (not totally evil people, either) make choices, or non-choices, as the case may be. At any rate, that's only tangentially related, but seriously, can we just start OWNING that racism is not something only "monsters" do? It's just a lazy way for us not to think about the racist things we all do/participate in even if we, ourselves, are not monsters/totally-evil-people.
Okay, now moving on to something more interesting- not about this one book, but about a trend in books: can we talk about how "The South" is increasingly explained away via monsters, especially vampires. It's like the only way we can talk about the evils of slavery and the legacy of racism in the South (not that there isn't racism other places, but that it is getting talked about re: the South in this way) is to mask it with vampires-- like, "oh, slavery was so evil and the Civil War was so bad that it must have been monsters." Not the overarching concern of this book, of course, but I'm thinking of this coupled with a number of other monster-based narratives in/about the South that seem to suggest that it's not the work of humans, but evil monsters that mean we do bad things (I think, to an extent, "The Help" is guilty of this, too). Nope: people do these things. Slavery/racism, etc. happen because people (not totally evil people, either) make choices, or non-choices, as the case may be. At any rate, that's only tangentially related, but seriously, can we just start OWNING that racism is not something only "monsters" do? It's just a lazy way for us not to think about the racist things we all do/participate in even if we, ourselves, are not monsters/totally-evil-people.
Surprisingly interesting. I didn't know how much I would like this book, but I found that it was definitely an interesting story and plot. I liked that it explored that conspiracy theory but still felt like a story and not preaching.
I was expecting this to read more like a story ala Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, instead it read like a biography so I think that might color my opinion of the book
This book was intriguing to me so I picked it out of a Barnes and Noble bestseller's list. I honestly loved the historical value in this, given the fact that it really goes through Abraham Lincoln's life and his political career--very summarized, but none the less, I enjoyed it.
I do feel like it was far fetched and the language was off a bit considering the time period this was supposed to be written in, but I am definitely going to watch the movie when it comes out in 2012.
I do feel like it was far fetched and the language was off a bit considering the time period this was supposed to be written in, but I am definitely going to watch the movie when it comes out in 2012.