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Bloodsucking Fiends

A Love Story

  • 1995 first published
  • 304 pages
  • ★ 4.2 (8 ratings)
  • 6 editions

Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends (1995) is a vampire fiction novel. Much of the action takes place in San Francisco, Calif. and California. Readers will find themes of vampires, Women, teenagers and Police.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 29 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 6 editions.

It runs to roughly 304 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Bloodsucking Fiends

At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of vampires on the loose and in love in San Francisco. When Jody wakes up in an alley, under a dupster, with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, she knows it isn't going to be one of her better days. She feels awful, looks worse; her clothes are torn, her sense of smell is suddenly as sharp as an animal's, she can see heat, and she has superhuman strength. And one more thing--she has an insatiable thirst for blood. What she doesn't realize is that this is only the beginning.... C. Thomas Flood (Tommy to his friends) has just arrived in San Francisco, full of dreams of becoming the next literary wunderkind. Instead he ends up working at the local Safeway and playing frozen turkey bowling with the motley night crew. He's also sharing a crowded apartment with five Chinese men who want to marry him in order to keep from getting deproted. Could things get any worse? One night Tommy meets the strikingly beautiful Jody on one of her nocturnal visits to the supermarket and gets the suprise of his life when the casual date they make to meet the next night (after sunset, of course) triggers the start of a relationship destined to span eternity. Life (and the afterlife) will never be the same....
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Vampires in fiction
  • Vampires
  • Women
  • San francisco, Calif.
  • Contemporary fantasy
  • Humorous
  • Mystery & detective
  • Suspense thrillers
  • Teenagers
  • Police
  • Suspects, Criminal investigation
  • Bildungsromans
  • C. Thomas Flood
  • Murder suspects
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Adolescents

Quick answers

Who wrote Bloodsucking Fiends?

Bloodsucking Fiends was written by Christopher Moore and first published in 1995.

What genre is Bloodsucking Fiends?

It is usually shelved as Vampire Fiction.

How long is Bloodsucking Fiends?

The median edition has 304 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Bloodsucking Fiends?

Readers who like it often enjoy Violets Are Blue, Mercy Burns and Dark Gold.

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