Just the title alone should be hint enough that this isn't historically accurate, I would hope so at least.
A couple of birthdays ago, the BF gave me zombie/vampire/undead themed gifts, this book included. It's just taken me long to finally get to it. But once I started reading, it was so hard for me to put down. Seth does a really good job of keeping you interested in the story.
First of all, this is a case where the book is definately better than the movie. Some parts of the movie matched up with the book, and alot of it didn't. Which is fine, because you can read and/or watch either and it won't ruin the other.
The book begins with Seth being approaced by a man named Henry (who just happens to be a vampire friend of Lincoln) to write a book based on Lincoln's personal journals. These journals share the secret of his vampire hunting days. Excerpts from this fictional journal are spread thoughout the book. Although again, not historically accurate, there are alot of similarities between this book and Lincoln's real life. For instance, his mother died when he was young. True. In the book, she just happened to die at the hands of a vampire. He really did fight to end slavery. In the book, the slaveholders just happend to be vampires that were using the slaves as lunch, thus he wanted to eliminate vampirism as well. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. In the book, Booth happened to be a vengeful vampire. The story of the "Lost City of Roanoke" was even answered. It was clever how Seth came up with these supernatural parallels to historical events.
The ending was quite clever too.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
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Henry and an usually tall gentleman are in Washington DC watching Martin Luther King Jr give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. And the book ends with "Some men are just too interesting to die." Perfect ending to a (fictional) story about one of the greatest men in US history.
