Vampire Hunter is quite the interesting book. It takes the life of a man that every American should know, but throws in the, "What if he hunted vampires?" The story doesn't get right into the action of course; it shows backstory to how the writer, Seth Grahame-Smith, came about acquiring these journals that Lincoln wrote about his vampire hunting and slaying in. I came into this thinking that it would just be a hilarious perversion of an American figures life, but boy was I wrong!
I really enjoy how he gives backstory to how the journals were practically thrust onto him. I mean, writers give the origin for the books a lot, but never do the do it quite as humorous, crazily, and yet believably as Smith does. He works in some knick-knack store in a small podunk town in New York, but has a frequent, odd, quiet, and seemingly wealthy visitor. The guy is your typical mystery man, donning shades, even in the winter. I liked the character, and after learning who he really was, I thought it was a nice touch to the story.
The mystery man turns out to be one of the bloodsuckers himself, and seems to offer little choice to Smith on how he can go about these journals. If you were to look at this from a different light, he could be the bad guy! I wonder to myself why a vampire is getting in touch with humans when the story is mostly about the killing of vampires. Why couldn't he get some vampire to write the story? Dont they live forever? Would that not give him all the time in the world to get whatever message he needs out to the world? I dont know yet, but the opening was a very excellent one at that, and I cant wait to read further into this book.
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