
Batman Gambit: Jody's gambit to get the old vampire to train her. Aura Vision: Vampires see the auras or "heat signatures" around people and can tell how healthy someone is and when the terminally ill are on their last legs.
Attempted Rape: A gang tries to rape Jody when she's in a laundromat on the seedy side of town.
It just leaves them trapped inside unable to do anything until the bronze wears away and they can turn themselves into mist and escape.
And I Must Scream: In the books, the characters most often neutralize vampires by encasing them in bronze. The main character of this book is Abby from You Suck. This means that she has to find a new day person and she ends up recruiting the teenage goth girl, Abby Normal.īite Me: A Love Story, the third book, is about a wave of vampirism striking San Francisco. Jody ends up turning Tommy into a vampire. The first sequel, You Suck: A Love Story, is about Jody and Tommy for some reason staying in San Francisco, despite the fact that it defies all common sense. Jody's maker stalks her from place to place and leaves her "presents" (dead bodies) that make her into a prime suspect of an ongoing murder investigation. The two move in together and start up a relationship. He works the night shift at a supermarket along with a crew of other young men aptly named "The Animals". Unable to do anything during the day, Jody enlists the help of Tommy, a 19-year-old who had just moved to San Francisco in hope of finding inspiration to help him kick-start his writing career. She finds out that she's been unwittingly turned into a vampire.
The last nail is driven into the coffin of her crumbling relationship when she wakes up under a city dumpster with a horrible burn on her hand and a huge wad of cash stuffed in her shirt. The first book, Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story, is about 26-year-old Jody, living in modern-day San Francisco with her shallow and weak-willed boyfriend. For the most part the genre fluctuates among comedy, drama, supernatural and suspense, with Moore's typical emphasis on comedy. Although they are described as love stories, romance actually plays a surprisingly small role in these books. And no, it's nothing like The Twilight Saga. A trilogy written by Christopher Moore about vampires and romance.