So a few days ago I was listening to Mur Lafferty’s I Should Be Writing podcast episode 185 in which she interviewed Lou Anders of Pyr. Some of the books they discussed as being recently released sounded like something I would like to read, so I decided to buy them.

These included Cowboy Angels and The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne in) along with its sequel The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man: (Burton & Swinburne In). Normally I wouldn’t buy a sequel before reading the first book, but I have been burned a couple of times by the sequel no longer being out when I was ready to go hunting for it, so decided this time I was not going to take that chance, and hope I enjoy the first book enough to read the second.

Soon I will have reviews for those of which I finish!

So recently I finished reading the Kindle version of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. If you haven’t heard of this book yet, its a historical fiction novel written by Seth Grahame-Smith. In this novel vampires are real, though most people do not know of them. It takes historical events that are known for a fact to have happened to Lincoln and put a slight twist on most of them.

Many events from Lincoln’s life is presented here, from the death of his mother to the Civil War and then to his Assassination by John Wilkes Booth, however instead of just being humans most of the adverse people were vampires. Gives a very different light on to what caused the Civil war.

You can tell that the author spent a long time making sure that the book is plausible as far as it goes.

The only complaint I have for this book is sometimes you have to wonder why doesn’t anything happen when the vampires die? Shouldn’t the turn to dust or something?

Recently Tim Burton has started the process of directing this as a film, this should be interesting to see!

Overall its worth the read, I’d recommend you get it!

This book is available in the following formats: Kindle, Hardcover & Illustrated, Paperback