If you want a different spin on Honest Abe, try this novel on for size. Before Abe Lincoln got to the White House he swung his ax for quite a different reason than what you might remember learning in elementary school. Apparently there was a thriving community of vampires in 1800s America, and due to a certain family tragedy Abe vowed as a young boy to do something about it. He swung that ax quite mightily, felling a goodly number of vampires before his political successes brought him to the White House. Abe’s presidency gets a new spin in this book too, what with the Civil War being recast as a conflict in which vampires figure largely in the motivations of the Southern succession, and John Wilkes Booth is revealed as—what else? -- a vampire. I liked this until about two thirds of the way through and then wearied of the premise. It’s pretty clever though, I must admit, and there’s sure to be a lot of interest in this title when the movie appears on June 22, 2012. The author boasts about using Wikipedia and Google as major research guides, but accuracy wasn’t the point exactly, was it? By the same author as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Click here for the trailer for the movie "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter".If you want a different spin on Honest Abe, try this novel on for size. Before Abe Lincoln got to the White House he swung his ax for quite a different reason than what you might remember learning in elementary school. Apparently there was a thriving community of vampires in 1800s America, and due to a certain family tragedy Abe vowed as a young boy to do something about it. He swung that ax quite mightily, felling a goodly number of vampires before his political successes brought him to the White House. Abe’s presidency gets a new spin in this book too, what with the Civil War being recast as a conflict in which vampires figure largely in the motivations of the Southern succession, and John Wilkes Booth is revealed as—what else? -- a vampire. I liked this until about two thirds of the way through and then wearied of the premise. It’s pretty clever though, I must admit, and there’s sure to be a lot of interest in this title when the movie appears on June 22, 2012. The author boasts about using Wikipedia and Google as major research guides, but accuracy wasn’t the point exactly, was it? By the same author as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Click here for the trailer for the movie "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter".
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