crhenri 's review for:

Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

2.0

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I was overall annoyed with this book. The main characters didn't feel consistent, and seemed to be all over the personality spectrum. The pacing wasn't consistent either. It would bounce from slow to fast without any real reason or attempt to help things make sense. There was a lot of hinting towards there being an AIDS epidemic, which just ended up coming across as a very heavy-handed way of trying to talk about the current issue of the time and yet not saying anything meaningful. The ending was pretty unsatisfying, too. The one character I liked, who also seemed to be well liked by basically everyone in the city, got a pretty unceremonious blow-off in the end. There were a lot of dry jokes and witty comments, but the delivery was always just a little off. Overall, I'm not inspired to read any of the others.