A review by niffler_for_words
Interview with a #Vanlifer by M.K. Williams

funny informative lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

“We lived long enough to see the climate problem get kicked down to the next generation twice, and we as a society just keep trying to kick it down to another.”

Interview with a #vanlifer was a very different book. 

If you want a very short read to help you with a slump, or to switch from two different words, this book should be the right one for you. It definitely helped me.

It was an easy read, funny but also interesting. The protagonists are a couple of vampires (who live in a van) and a journalist. The tone is light, and the subjects they talk about varied. Maybe too much. There are so many things in that book, in such a short story (64 pages) that it remains superficial. I wish it had been developed in a longer book, as a lighter mirror of Anne Rice’s work. Formatted a bit differently, to truly look like a magazine article, Interview with a #vanlifer could have become a fun prologue to a deeper story about the couple, their life, and all the things important to them: how to deal with vampire life, ecology, representation, etc. It could become a great book, especially with the way the author uses the genre’s codes and twists them, turns them upside down, to make her own fun and fascinating world building. There are so many greats –and surprising– ideas in this book, but so little space to develop them. 

Maybe in the future? In the meanwhile (a girl can keep her hopes!), this short story exists, and is a fun read! 

Thank you Halingbookstorm and MK Williams for the free copy in exchange for my honest review