Bite Me

A Love Story

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

"The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge, shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup.

"‘Cept there’s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they're vampires. Good thing theirs is an undying love, since their Goth Girl Friday, Abby Normal, imprisoned them in a bronze statue. Abby wants to be a blood sucking fiend, too, but right now she’s really busy with other stuff, like breaking in a pair of red vinyl thigh-high Skankenstein® platform boots and wrangling her Ph.D.-candidate boyfriend, Steve (the love monkey). And then there’s that vampire cat Chet, who’s getting bigger and smarter—and thirstier—by the minute. Abby thought she and Steve could handle the kitty cat on their own, mais non."

Before you can say “OMG! WTF?” Tommy and Jody are sprung from captivity, and join forces with Abby, Steve, the frozen-turkey-bowling Safeway crew, the Emperor of San Francisco and his trusty dogs Lazarus and Bummer, Abby’s gay Goth friend Jared, and SF’s finest Cavuto and Rivera to hunt big cat and save the city. And that’s when the fun really begins.

©2010 Christopher Moore (P)2010 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

"Moore’s most hysterical ‘love story’ to date." ( Booklist)

Fun light read, exceptional narrator

Fun story. Light reading l loved the character especially Abbey Normal.
Susan Bennett is exceptional. I will be looking for her narration in other selections, for real!

GOTH-GIRL DOES DRACULA

Abby Normal steals the show and the final scene of this deliciously draconian delight-fest! I'm already looking forward to listening to the whole series again! I'm thinking the second time might be tastier than the first, or thirst.....

Really enjoyed this series!

Took the long way on errands just to hear in the car. I hooted and even snorted many times. Susan Bennett was perfect…PERFECT bringing each character to life. I am now unhappy I have finished.

Susan Bennett, narrator extrodinaire

Susan Bennett’s valley girl voice may just be the pinnacle of narration on the planet.

Hysterical!

I love Abby Normal! Susan Bennett does a perfect goth girl voice. I read in a previous review that the writer is starting to speak like Abby Normal and I am too.
I laughed out loud at some points. Mr. Moore you rock. Laters

Cats, Rats & Vampires.

The final addition was wet your pants funny. This book was more from Abby’s POV, which I loved in the last book, so it worked. I love Abby’s tail part; very vivid imagination and I couldn’t stop laughing. I’m not the biggest fan of the ending, but it makes since as to why it ended that way, so I can live with it. Narrator is great she really makes Abby come to life.

Brilliantly read and entertaining

In Christopher Moore style you get an outrageous and laugh out loud book. The narration of this book is absolutely incredible, in fact the best I've ever heard for an audio book! Susan Bennett delivers a range of character voices that are distinct and absolutely believable from the valley girl to the Rasta man all read with exactly the kind of humour and pace the book required. Very enjoyable.

Funny, Sweet and Whatnot

What made the experience of listening to Bite Me the most enjoyable?

Susan Bennett's storytelling is amazing. She captures a huge variety of characters, their accents, behavior and mannerisms. This was also my favorite of the trilogy; all of the characters are fully developed and completed in this final book of the series.

What other book might you compare Bite Me to and why?

Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, the prior two books in the trilogy. They are all obviously in the same style and follow many of the same characters. Though I enjoyed them all, Bite Me was the funniest and most interesting.

I did not especially like Abby Normal in You Suck, but found her much funnier and more nuanced/interesting in Bite Me.

What about Susan Bennett’s performance did you like?

All of it. She is the most talented narrator I have heard so far and is a great match for Christopher Moore's writing. She also did an amazing job voicing Marvin, Bummer and Lazarus, the three dogs who appear in the story. Moore's "translations" of dogspeak were hilarious and Susan Bennett brought them to canine life.

If you could take any character from Bite Me out to dinner, who would it be and why?

The Emperor! As a native San Franciscan, I grew up with stories of the actual Emperor Norton and I loved that this character appeared in the trilogy.

HILARIOUS!!!

What made the experience of listening to Bite Me the most enjoyable?

I was actually peeing myself! What a wonderful character Abby Normal was. I loved everything about all the characters.

What did you like best about this story?

The spontaneous speeches of Abby.

What does Susan Bennett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I don't think I would have really enjoyed the book without Susan. She is tremendously talented! Susan? You ARE Abby. lol

If you could take any character from Bite Me out to dinner, who would it be and why?

Abby of course. And her stripy socks.

Any additional comments?

I WANT MORE, I WANT MORE. LOL

Too Funny!

This is a great story. Too funny! I know people though I am crazy for laughing out loud. The narrator does an excellent job, she is as engaging as the story!
Great book.