Throughout the rest of the book, it addresses of vampires are behind many of the worlds terrors, like WWI, WWII, and many others. The just of the book is this. Southern Vampires use slaves as a method of food, you keep em and kill them off to drink their blood. They are the Confederates. The Union are vampires and humans against that.
I really enjoyed how Smith tied in vampires into so many different parts of Abe's life. It was interesting seeing how they ran things from behind the veil of a war, and how the war had a deeper meaning than just that. I kept finding myself actually forgetting that this was just fiction.
I am a fanatic when it comes to vampire literature. When you read some of the books such as Charlaine Harris's True Blood series, you figure out that vampires played a huge role in our history because they have lived so long. Just by looking at the blog, I think I would like to read this book.
ReplyDeleteOk, as ridiculous as "vampires are behind all that was bad" sounds, I keep forgetting why fantasy was made; to counter and break away from reality. Anyhoo, this sounds and looks like a seriously funny book about an alternate history, if I can get rid of this obsession about aliens and realism. As for vampires, well, I still don't believe in vampires.
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