Amazingly enough there are no shimmering vamps here!!!! The only stares you get from vampires in this book are blood thirty ugly faces right before they rip someone's head off and slop down every drop of blood that the once alive vessel had. Then they rip off the limps of said dead vessel for good measure, and finish things of by breaking their legs a second time as if they had taken a leap through time and picked up some ideas from Steven Segal! This novel was well written and scripted perfectly with the life of Abraham Lincoln (except for the real life Abraham Lincoln being a flaming racist). The ending was an obvious one! Whoever doesn't know the famous last phrase of Lincoln's killer, I do indeed feel sorry for you. This novel starts with the kind of push you would give your child as they are learning to ride a bicycle and quickly shifts into overdrive and continues with that pace until the end. Summed up vampires abound everywhere especially in populated locales. Every decision that Abraham made throughout his real life is backed up by his never ceasing goal to eradicate vampires. I give a little bow and nod to the author, if you will, for once again renewing my faith the awesome spectacle that is "Vampire". This was a candy book, something to indulge yourself in and get away from the real world while learning a few things about our 16th president and the true tragedy of his life. Yes, there are some events in here that are very real and must have been very hard for Mr. Lincoln to deal with during those hard times of yore!