Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore

So, after reading #1 and #2 in this series, I started #3 - Bite Me: A Love Story - shortly after I finished You Suck in the early part of May, and finished toward the end of May.  The Husband was able to get this from the library for me which still perplexes me that they would have the 3rd book in the series but not the first 2.

This book was really funny.  Of course, it picked up where the other left off.  Bite Me was a little more ridiculous than the first two, but hey, it's a vampire book, it has to be a little bit ridiculous, right?  Tommy and Jody are still vampires but are trapped (I won't tell you where), and our old faithful goth-girl-extraordinaire is at the helm leading the way.  The problem of the day in this book - vampire cats.  Chet, the homeless man's extremely large cat, is now a vampire (a catpire, a vampcat, a vampirat?) whatever, but Chet is a creature of the night and has made hoards of other cat vampires that are terrorizing the City.

During a precarious vamp-cat fight we meet an old ninja who decimates many vamp cats with his ninja sword.  Then he disappears.  Abby meets Foo-Dog, a character who made a brief appearance in the first two books.  She falls deeply for Foo-Dog and they become a thing.

Like the first two books, this one is a race to stay alive in a world of vampires and now vampire cats.  I have to say that Abby's narration was a little annoying, she was a little too valley-girl-ish - a young girl from SF wouldn't completely talk the way she does (it was a little too LA-ish), and I'm not sure a goth girl anywhere would talk that way.  But maybe that's just a comedic tool that Moore used to create some kind of tension or contradiction in her character?  Don't know, but it was a little annoying.

I loved the parts with the old vamp-cat-killing ninja - I can't go into too much detail about this, but I really liked his character.  He was the strong silent type but plays somewhat of a big role for one of the other characters.

One of the most hilarious things in the book are the rats.  Rats are gross (yes), but in this book they are pretty funny.  Many funny things happen with rats, one even involving Abby.  I laughed my tail off at what happened to Abby.  Again - can't go into too much detail on that - don't want to give it away.

This book was a nice end to the series.  It was a quick read.  Funny, witty, entertaining - everything I like in a book.