History Literature / BloodsuckingFiends

* [[StuffedIntoTheFridge Stuffed Into The Freezer]]: How Tommy and Jody hide one of the corpses that the old vampire leaves behind. Later on Tommy literally does this to Jody while she's asleep.

* WhatTheHellHero: Jody's reaction to [[StuffedIntoTheFridge Tommy putting her in the freezer]].

* WrongGenreSavvy: Played with. Tommy saturates himself with vampire literature and appears to be this initially when he asks Jody to [[spoiler:turn into mist]] like {{Dracula}}, but it turns out that all she needed was a tutor. Other things he does get wrong, though. Jody can't fly or turn into a wolf, for instance. He also suspects himself of becoming TheRenfield and lists a bunch of reasons attributable to other things. Abby also counts; she believes that vampires are all dark, brooding, serious and romantic, more along the lines of Literature/AnneRice's ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'' or ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' than the vampires that show up in the book.

* GenreSavvy: Tommy. After he finds out that Jody is a newly-turned vampire unfamiliar with her powers, he gets a bunch of vampire books, studies them and uses trial and error to figure out specific vampire strengths, abilities and weaknesses. In particular he's rather stuck on Creator/AnneRice's ''[[TheVampireChronicles The Vampire Lestat]]''.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Played with. Tommy saturates himself with vampire literature and appears to be this initially when he asks Jody to [[spoiler:turn into mist]] like {{Dracula}}, but it turns out that all she needed was a tutor. Other things he does get wrong, though. Jody can't fly or turn into a wolf, for instance. He also suspects himself of becoming TheRenfield and lists a bunch of reasons attributable to other things. Abby also counts; she believes that vampires are all dark, brooding, serious and romantic, more along the lines of Literature/AnneRice's ''TheVampireChronicles'' or ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' than the vampires that show up in the book.

* CurbStompBattle: [[AwesomeMoments Jody beats the everloving crap out of a gang that intended to rape her]] and shouts "Forty-fucking-Niners!" at them as she walks out the door, presumably in response to the Oakland Raiders paraphernalia the gang is wearing.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Played with. Tommy saturates himself with vampire literature and appears to be this initially when he asks Jody to [[spoiler:turn into mist]] like {{Dracula}}, but it turns out that all she needed was a tutor. Other things he does get wrong, though. Jody can't fly or turn into a wolf, for instance. He also suspects himself of becoming TheRenfield and lists a bunch of reasons attributable to other things. Abby also counts; she believes that vampires are all dark, brooding, serious and romantic, more along the lines of Literature/AnneRice's ''TheVampireChronicles'' or ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' than the vampires that show up in the book.
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* UndeathAlwaysEnds: By the second book a scientist even invents a cure for vampirism.

A trilogy written by ChristopherMoore about vampires and romance... And no, it's nothing like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. Although they are described as love stories, romance actually plays a surprisingly small role in these books. For the most part the genre fluctuates among comedy, drama, supernatural and suspense, with Moore's typical emphasis on comedy.

* ShoutOut: The title of the third novel, ''Bite Me'' is a reference to {{Christopher Moore}}'s other novel, ''[[Literature/FlukeOrIKnowWhyTheWingedWhaleSings Fluke]]'' where a whale has "Bite Me" tattooed to its fins.

* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Not to say that the book is entirely lacking in seriousness, but given [[ChristopherMoore the author]], this book is quite far down on the Silly side of the scale.

* TheVerse: All of {{Christopher Moore}}'s novels, including this one, take place in the same universe.

* KingOfTheHomeless: The king of San Francisco.

* CurbStompBattle: [[AwesomeMoments Jody beats the everloving crap out of a gang, wearing Oakland Raiders paraphernalia, that intended to rape her]] and shouts "Forty-fucking-Niners!" at them as she walks out the door.

* CurbStompBattle: [[AwesomeMoments Jody beats the everloving crap out of a gang that intended to rape her]] and shouts "Forty-fucking-Niners!" at them as she walks out the door.

Unable to do anything during the day, Jody enlists the help of Tommy, a 19-year-old who had just moved to San Francisco in hope of finding inspiration to help him kick-start his writing career. He works the night shift at a supermarket along with a crew of other young men aptly named "The Animals". The two move in together and start up a relationship. Jody's maker stalks her from place to place and leaves her "presents" [[hottip:* : dead bodies]] that make her into a prime suspect of an ongoing murder investigation.

* GenreSavvy: Tommy. After he finds out that Jody is a newly-turned vampire unfamiliar with her powers, he gets a bunch of vampire books, studies them and uses trial and error to figure out specific vampire strengths, abilities and weaknesses. In particular he's rather stuck on Literature/AnneRice's ''[[TheVampireChronicles The Vampire Lestat]]''.

''[[Literature/BiteMe Bite Me: A Love Story]]'', the third book, is about a wave of vampirism striking San Francisco. The main character of this book is Abby from ''You Suck''.

The first book, ''Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story'', is about 26-year-old Jody, living in modern-day SanFrancisco with her shallow and weak-willed boyfriend. [[IncrediblyLamePun The last nail is driven into the coffin]] of her crumbling relationship when she wakes up under a city dumpster with a horrible burn on her hand and a huge wad of cash stuffed in her shirt. She finds out that she's been unwittingly turned into a vampire.

* SanFrancisco: The setting of all three books. Even when it gets [[IdiotPlot implausible and dangerous]].

''[[Literature/BiteMe Bite Me: A Love Story]]'', the latest installment, is about a wave of vampirism striking San Francisco. The main character of this book is Abby from ''You Suck''.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Played with. Tommy saturates himself with vampire literature and appears to be this initially when he asks Jody to [[spoiler:turn into mist]] like {{Dracula}}, but it turns out that all she needed was a tutor. Other things he does get wrong, though. Jody can't fly or turn into a wolf, for instance. He also suspects himself of becoming TheRenfield and lists a bunch of reasons attributable to other things. Abby also counts; she believes that vampires are all dark, brooding, serious and romantic, more along the lines of {{Anne Rice}}'s ''TheVampireChronicles'' or ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' than the vampires that show up in the book.

* GenreSavvy: Tommy. After he finds out that Jody is a newly-turned vampire unfamiliar with her powers, he gets a bunch of vampire books, studies them and uses trial and error to figure out specific vampire strengths, abilities and weaknesses. In particular he's rather stuck on {{Anne Rice}}'s ''[[TheVampireChronicles The Vampire Lestat]]''.

''[[BiteMe Bite Me: A Love Story]]'', the latest installment, is about a wave of vampirism striking San Francisco. The main character of this book is Abby from ''You Suck''.

* {{MIB}}: The group of vampires that show up at the end of ''You Suck'' to punish the old vampire for threatening TheMasquerade.

** Sunlight burns them badly. If a vampire has part of their body in the open when the sun rises, they will get burned and possibly burn up completely. [[spoiler: In addition to the sun magically making vampires inert, ultraviolet light burns them regardless of sourse. Blacklights are weaponized.]]