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jessicasteiner) wrote2012-12-15 08:23 pm
jessicasteiner) wrote2012-12-15 08:23 pm
Review: Fat Vampire by @MrAdamRex
I'm back! The last couple of months have been crazy, between moving and trying to do NaNoWriMo (final wordcount: around 26,000, and I'm happy with that all things considered), but life is finally starting to settle down and I'm looking forward to a few days off work and a mental recharge.
While I was away from regular blog updates, I read Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story, by Adam Rex.
Fat Vampire is a book designed to appeal to my nerdy little soul. It's about a teenage boy named Doug who becomes a vampire, and has to cope with all the things that becoming a vampire involves - figuring out his powers, figuring out how to go to school and have friends and chase a girlfriend, while adjusting to his new life. The thing is, Doug is no Edward Cullen - he is a huge comic book nerd, with all the ostracism and awkwardness that means.
The first section of the book involves Doug and his best friend Jay attending - and trying to feed Doug - at San Diego Comic Con. It's pretty obvious from the book that Adam Rex has gone and knows exactly what it's like to be part of that world. It made me glee.
I listened to the audible version of Fat Vampire, available here.
The reader for the book was excellent. Kirby Heyborne had all different voices, even accents, and it was easy to distinguish between the characters.
One of the things that worried me for a long while was whether the comedy in the book would devolve into hurtful stereotypes and derision of the sub-cultures that I hold dear. However, the author remains both realistic and respectful, while staying true to the comedic tone of the book.
Overall, it was a funny, tragic, and interesting book. I loved the characters and the story, and would heartily recommend it to anyone, particularly someone who's ever opened a comic book or been to a fandom convention.
While I was away from regular blog updates, I read Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story, by Adam Rex.
Fat Vampire is a book designed to appeal to my nerdy little soul. It's about a teenage boy named Doug who becomes a vampire, and has to cope with all the things that becoming a vampire involves - figuring out his powers, figuring out how to go to school and have friends and chase a girlfriend, while adjusting to his new life. The thing is, Doug is no Edward Cullen - he is a huge comic book nerd, with all the ostracism and awkwardness that means.
The first section of the book involves Doug and his best friend Jay attending - and trying to feed Doug - at San Diego Comic Con. It's pretty obvious from the book that Adam Rex has gone and knows exactly what it's like to be part of that world. It made me glee.
I listened to the audible version of Fat Vampire, available here.
The reader for the book was excellent. Kirby Heyborne had all different voices, even accents, and it was easy to distinguish between the characters.
One of the things that worried me for a long while was whether the comedy in the book would devolve into hurtful stereotypes and derision of the sub-cultures that I hold dear. However, the author remains both realistic and respectful, while staying true to the comedic tone of the book.
Overall, it was a funny, tragic, and interesting book. I loved the characters and the story, and would heartily recommend it to anyone, particularly someone who's ever opened a comic book or been to a fandom convention.
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