I demand more people buy it, 'cause I'm fed up waiting for the next one. You can get it from amazon.co.uk.Turn the other cheek, with or without your tongue attached A brave and well-executed first novel that is both engaging and very funny. Wilcox has succeeded in `turning' the vampire formula on its unsuspecting head -- by rattling around with the innards and releasing a new breed of vampire and fiction. A careful blend of humour, cliché and an all-star ensemble of have-a-go students ensure an enjoyable read from start to finish. There are echoes of Pratchett-esque frivolity and irony; but Wilcox adds an extra dimension of sarcasm and innocent stupidity in his characters that have been absent from the Discworld since Sorcery. If Wilcox can pull off the series that he plans, it will be a fine feat indeed that should keep readers laughing for years.
Witty, intelligent and action packed! This novel is anything but the boring played out vampire stereotypes found in most vampire based novels. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll laugh some more and you'll hope someone beats the bad guys with their own body parts (and someone does!).
I personally enjoyed the numerous references and mockery of popular vampire culture. How can you NOT love a novel with lines like this: "Perhaps she did not know that she was supposed to bay at the moo, or perform some sort of necromantic rite. Maybe you were supposed to get a manual or something; 'Lestat's Complete Guide to Immortality and Jugular Rending'."
Buy this book! And bug his publishers to get moving on the second installment, hell and why not the third and fourth.
This book is a wonderful mixture of the insanely manic (student vampires in modern day England), cut-your-pinky off sharp wit and moments of shocking hilarity. Influences of Pratchett-esque silliness and fantasy throughout, but written in a very original and effective style that kept me from putting this gem down until I had thoroughly embarassed myself in public by laughing out loud so much.
Weird, wacky, colorful, creative and comical. Salty and sanguine fun. Do read this book.
Until it does.