Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Description

"Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation."

Review

I had only heard good things about this book so I decided to read it. For me it was a pretty quick and easy read and kept me well entertained. It was well written although a little gory for my taste. Little to no language that I can think of. I love books that are based around real people and events. I have not read any of Seth Grahame-Smiths other works; I had been told that his Pride, Prejudice and Zombies swore excessively, but this book did not, if at all. The only thing I did not like about the book is when it got into politics, telling of Lincoln's climb up the political ladder, I found those few chapters rather boring as they were rather vampire-lacking. But other then that, good read I highly recommend!

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- Adria