A werewolf, a vampire and
a ghost ruin a Goth girl’s plan to open a portal for the old gods to usher in a
new world of darkness.
This is a very, very funny horror story that uses all the tropes of
urban fantasy and spins them in a redneck kind of way. The vibe is one part
ZOMBIELAND and one part FROM DUSK TIL DAWN with a big dash of DUCK DYNASTY/HERE
COMES HONEY BOO BOO thrown in. In other words, although the characters include
vampires and werewolves and ghosts and zombies (and zombie cows), the backdrop
is pure regional.
It’s a really loopy and
off the wall and extremely entertaining as a book. Martinez really does urban
fantasy well and he and Christopher Moore seem to have this branch of the genre
all to themselves.
The characters are all
fully realized and recognizable human beings, even when they’re undead or
ghosts or weres or just hapless minions of the manipulative Tammy/Lilith.
