Vampire a Go-Go
Victor Gischler
Touchstone, Sep 1 2009, $14.99
ISBN 9781416552277
Gothic State University grad student blew off the semester when he met Brenda Cole. After she dumped him and he groveled but failed to win her back he finally moved on. His adviser Professor Carpenter and her 122 birds named Admiral Snodgrass say he can salvage his student status by accompanying notoriously known hard-ass Professor Evergreen and his wife on a research prject at a castle in Prague. Although his love is the Bronte sisters perhaps after Brenda’s tattoos, Allen absolutely agrees.
In the Czech republic, Allen finds nothing going right as the Battle Jesuits Society of Witches (and one vampire) attack their party. He also concludes that Evergreen seeks the legendary philosopher’s stone that reanimate the dead Not sure where he fits in to everyone’s plot except as the fall guy, Allen soon meets Cassandra, Amy the good witch with no power and Penny who says she will earn and own him before the summer is through.
Lighthearted fun, VAMPIRE A GO-GO is an enjoyable Prague summer as Allen seems to run into one problem after another as if he is Job. Much of the story line is told by jovial spirited alchemist Edward Kelley or at least his ghost; who moans and groans over the Net’s crappy picture of him. The characters are brialliantly developed and seem real (including Allen) so that readers will enjoy the most wonderful summer of Allen’s life that is if he survives to the fall.
Harriet Klausner
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