This book was really good. It really didn't feel like a fiction book at all. Grahame-Smith just worked with what history gives us and added in the vamp angle, and he did it flawlessly. Even using quotes from speeches and looking at what we know of Lincoln, he made it seem as if he really were dealing with vamps.
Basically Lincoln's mom is killed by a vamp when he is a boy. Once Abe learns about the cause of death, he sets his heart on avenging his mother by ridding the world of the scourge of vamp kind. He makes unlikely friends and spends his young life killing vampires and grows into manhood as a respected vamp hunter.
Grahame-Smith really did a stellar job placing this vamp fiction seamlessly into our history. It's very interesting and very entertaining. Read it.
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