Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

Official Summary

Indiana, 1818.   Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

My Two Cents
Now is your chance to read this book before the movie comes out this summer!  Absolutely worth it and I am definitely getting myself to the theatre to see this one.

LOVED THIS BOOK.  Made me a little nervous because I was not a fan of the author's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, because that was just the same exact story line with Zombies mixed in, I didn't get past the first chapter.  Well, the same could be said for this book - it was the story of Abraham Lincoln with Vampires mixed in; it acted and felt like a non-fiction book (which I usually really dislike) but it read like a novel.

I have to admit to a fascination with the Lincolns, both Abe and Mary.  And I have to admit to a fascination with scary vampires - (not fluffy sparkly "Twilight" vampires), so my review perhaps may have a bit to do with that.  But beyond that, to me, it's such an interesting concept - who would of thought to put the two together??

Somehow the author made this work and created an eerie, viable alternate history.  What a fun read.  Good for the teenagers, too - going to recommend this one to Max.