Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (Audio Book Review)

Title: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Author: Seth Grahame-Smith
Reader: Scott Holst
Publisher: Hachette Audio

My thoughts: I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would.  It took the historical things we know about Lincoln and intertwined how it could have happened if there were really vampires.  From the deaths of Nancy Hanks (Abe's mom) to Ann Rutledge (first fiance) and all the way through to his election as President and subsequent assassination. 

You see, Abe was really a vampire hunter. He learned about them at a young age when he saw his father making a deal with one for a loan.  He later went on his own to hunt them down and kill them.  During his travels he actually is befriended by a vampire who saves him when another tries to kill him.  When Abe asks why he didn't kill him - he says that some people are too interesting to kill (sorry if I didn't get the quote quite right - I finished this some time ago). Over the years this vampire feeds information to Abe about "bad" vampires in the area so that Abe can go and kill them.

I must say that I did enjoy it.  With audiobooks I have discovered that if I don't like the narrator, then it is hard to get involved in the story line.  Obviously, this was a narrator (Scott Holst) that I liked.

~I received a complimentary copy of this audiobook from Hachette Audio in exchange for my review.~

 

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Publisher/Publication Date: Hachette Audio, Mar 2010
ISBN: 978-1-60788-173-5
9 CDs - 10 hours

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith - Audiobook Giveaway!

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

by Seth Grahame-Smith

read by Scott Holst

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy. . ." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "Henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion, I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose. . ." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving the Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Seccret Journal of Abraham Lincoln and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time -- all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

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