The Lesser Dead
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New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he's spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks.
The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy.
Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.
And neither are the rest of us.
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR
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🦇🦇🦇🦇 4/5 underground-dwelling vampires"He gets away with it because he's strong.""This is the story of mankind.""I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.""Yes. But then I read the newspaper."I love me some good vampire horror and Christopher Buehlman delivered. I wasn't sure if I would give it 3 or 4 stars, until the end, which pushed it firmly to 4 stars. A lot to like about this book:the whole world building around the vampires, how they work as a species and (how they live in) the tunnels makes for great atmosphere from the get-gothe characters are very flawed and lovelyCvetkounreliable narratorcreepy kids are creepy and cutethe stakes exist and are very realthose nice scenes of real horror and tragedy in between, absolutely loved themthe ending really elevates the storyWhy I didn't give it 5 stars:Even though I liked the ending, it did feel a little like the author <spoiler>wasn't sure which ending would be best received by his audience and decided to offer all of them instead, placing the responsibility of whether you liked it or not on the reader.</spoiler>I couldn't establish a strong emotional connection with the narrator, this might be different when I read it again in the future.
Description
New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he's spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks.
The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy.
Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.
And neither are the rest of us.
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR
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🦇🦇🦇🦇 4/5 underground-dwelling vampires"He gets away with it because he's strong.""This is the story of mankind.""I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.""Yes. But then I read the newspaper."I love me some good vampire horror and Christopher Buehlman delivered. I wasn't sure if I would give it 3 or 4 stars, until the end, which pushed it firmly to 4 stars. A lot to like about this book:the whole world building around the vampires, how they work as a species and (how they live in) the tunnels makes for great atmosphere from the get-gothe characters are very flawed and lovelyCvetkounreliable narratorcreepy kids are creepy and cutethe stakes exist and are very realthose nice scenes of real horror and tragedy in between, absolutely loved themthe ending really elevates the storyWhy I didn't give it 5 stars:Even though I liked the ending, it did feel a little like the author <spoiler>wasn't sure which ending would be best received by his audience and decided to offer all of them instead, placing the responsibility of whether you liked it or not on the reader.</spoiler>I couldn't establish a strong emotional connection with the narrator, this might be different when I read it again in the future.