Perhaps “cute” isn’t the word to use to describe this book considering it’s topic but it’s what keeps coming to hind.  “Handy” might be another good one.

This is another one of my Barnes and Noble bargain bin finds that I saw and just had to grab.  It was right before Halloween after all.  It’s a Barnes and Noble novelty book published I’m guessing for the season, probably ghost-written by someone and then labeled as being written by a Van Helsing.  I love the camp of it all!

What I love most about it, though, is the take on vampires it has.  I’m not a fan of the Nosferatu-type vampire that’s all sorts of ugly.  I like me my sexy vampires with the heart of black.  I believe in the whole “prey attracted to predators” thing and if a vampire looked like the dude on this cover, there’d have to be some serious mild-melding going on because that face would make a mother run away screaming.

And there is.  Serious mind manipulation with these vampires.  It touches on the whole vampires turning into mist and bats and such and plays it off as just really good mind games, that vampires can’t really do that but their control over you is so powerful that you’ll be convinced that’s what you saw.

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