You Suck

A Love Story

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

"You bitch, you killed me. You suck!"

Being dead sucks. Make that being undead sucks.

Literally. Just ask Thomas C. Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, the woman of his dreams, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too.

For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. Like how much Jody should teach Tommy about his new superpowers (and how much he needs to learn on his own). Plus there's Tommy's cute new minion, 16-year-old goth girl Abby Normal. (Well, someone has to run errands during daylight hours!)

Making the relationship work, however, is the least of Jody and Tommy's problems. Word has it that the vampire who nibbled on Jody wasn't supposed to be recruiting any new members into the club. Even worse, Tommy's erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call-girl named (duh) Blue.

And that really sucks.

Love in vein: listen to more vampire fiction.

©2007 Christopher Moore (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

"A cheerfully perverse, gut-busting tale of young vampires in love....Moore writes with the jittery energy of a brilliant, charming class clown, mixing sex and gore and a potty mouth with a goofy-sweet sensibility to deliver laughs on nearly every page." (Publishers Weekly)

Very entertaining and well narrated.

Worth the price of admission just for the diary entries of Abby Normal! Another hilarious ride from Christopher Moore.

Hey Boo

Another great read. Hysterical, all around. I love Abby Normal ... I would love to see her have her own book writing a book. Don't let the vampire thing turn you away. Great series !

Good Sequel

After listening to "Bloodsucking Fiends", I was eager for more. This sequel was good, not great, but entertaining. I think I got a little tired of the constant witty sarcasm of Susan Bennett as Abby Normal and many of the unlikable characters who were meant to be wacky, but remained unlikable.

Also, and maybe I'm a touch overly sensitive to anything even remotely concerning animals, but I really didn't care for the harmful things done to the cat and the turtles. Really not funny.

But overall, I enjoyed this book and I will certainly listen to the third installment.

good listen

If you liked the author's "A Dirty Job", then you will love this book. The narrator is wonderful. I listened to this on vacation and I could not stop laughing. Many of the characters in "A Dirty Job" show up in this novel...they just have bit roles, but I enjoyed the way they were incorportated into the plot.

Fun story, annoying presentation.

It wasn't quite as good as the first, but was still fun. There were a ton of super annoying characters, but the WORST part was someone thought it would be an awesome idea to put loud unrelated music at a number of locations throughout the book.

The music!

This is a great sharp witted book. The narrator is OK. Not bad but not really great with male voices. The music at the beginning and end of the chapters is irritating. It ruins the flow. I think that this must have been a thing specific to this company or the time because I have found it in other books.

Like visiting old friends

I really enjoyed this book. The story races along at a breakneck pace mixing both action and comedy. Christopher Moore does such a good job creating life like characters that it is easy to enter this story and suspend belief in the supernatural. The narrator does an incredible job of giving voice to all the characters.

Too much teenage girl drama

A great deal of the story was told in the voice of Abbey Normal, a melodramatic teenage girl. So if you enjoy hearing "and he was like", "and I was like", or the word "like" used repeatedly, this book might be for you. If you like dramatic teenage girl nonsense, you also might enjoy this book. Now, if you like a story that has somewhat of a plot, this book is not for you.
I enjoyed the first book of this series but this second book was not for me.

Susan Bennett is a master of her trade

loved it
christopher moore never disappoints
the narration made the story even more enjoyable
Susan Bennett should do readings of all of his books

...And I was like, whoa!

Whoa, this book blew me away. I wasn't sure that I was going to be interested in a teenage girl's story, but Abby proved me wrong. I cannot comprehend how Christopher Moore can metamorphous into a teenage girl. She was hilarious and Susan Bennett's work was phenomenal! The use of words and performance outshines the story. If you want to laugh and want something entertaining, this is it!