After slogging through the abomination that was Twilight, I wasn’t looking forward to another vampire love story.  However, Christopher Moore’s Lamb was one of the funniest books I’ve ever read, so I was willing to give Bloodsucking Fiends a try.

C. Thomas Flood is a young man from a small town in Indiana, just moved to San Francisco to try to make it in the world as a writer.  After landing a job managing the troublesome but lovable night crew at Safeway (with some help from the homeless Emperor of San Francisco), he finds his muse in a gorgeous redhead named Jody, who turns out to be a little more than he bargained for.  Like how she has a notable lack of body temperature, and needs to feed off of him every few days.  Not to mention her dangerous vampiric stalker, who keeps leaving bodies near their apartment.  Tommy is sure that she’ll break his heart, but that doesn’t stop him from doing everything in his power–including risking life and limb–to keep her.

This was a great light read.  It was poignant and funny, and the adorable romance will make you want to run around your house and cuddle random things.  Moore has a great way of juxtaposing the eloquent with the hilarious.  His characters were real and lovable.  Jody is logical and reserved, but finds herself doing a lot of uncharacteristic things as she discovers her new powers.  Tommy is romantic and naive, but still manages to be a natural leader.  The Emperor, an eccentric homeless man with his “army” of two stray dogs, really makes the book.

Even though I loved the story, I did feel like the main characters were thrown together too fast.  It was kinda like, “Hey, you’re hot.”  “Will you live with me?”  “Okay.  I love you.”  “Me too.”  There wasn’t really a get-to-know-each-other process, and I think that the story could have had more dimension if that had been included.

Aside from that, I can see this being a novel I will read again and again.  The best part?  It has a sequel.