Girls of Geek Book Review: "Vampire Vic"

Written by Scotty

There is nothing to lie about, getting older sucks in more than one way.  No matter what you do, there is no way to fight it, especially if you are in a dead end job.  So many people get complacent in their employment and believe that it is the best it will ever be, along with their co-workers losing respect for them when they fail to want to move up the ladder.  This mixed with getting older adds to extra pounds, loss of respect for one’s self and everyone seeing what a true failure you have turned out to be in you twilight years.  There is always a way to combat this, but you have to want to better yourself, no matter what the consequences might have in store for you.

Victor Thetherson is not where he expected to be at this point in his life, being overweight, divorced and a manager over a staff that does not care about their jobs, he knows life could be better and it should be after he was turned into a vampire.  Although Victor has found ways around feeding on people with help from his friend Tripp that moonlights at the local blood bank, he has reached his breaking point.  When one of his staff members has failed to get his work done properly and decides to go out to a happy hour with the gang from work, Victor has to pull up the slack and wait for his dimwitted employee to return so he can show his wrath.  Not ever wanting to bite anyone, Vic has been pushed passed his breaking point and his first victim fully deserves to have his blood sucked, but not being practiced in the proper blood sucking method yet, his meal escapes without even a scratch.

Returning to the office in the morning and his employee not coming in, the rest of the staff gives Vic a hard time and wants to know what has been done with the underachiever.  Although Vic did not sink his teeth into the young man, everyone knows that a vampire must feed and he must have taken a bite out of him.  Vic demands very little respect in the office and watching as his crew continues to screw around while they should be working it starts to get under his skin and now with a rival office coming in to audit their work, Vic knows that something bad is coming on the horizon.  Meeting with the manager of the rival crew Darla, Vic understands that a merger is about to take place and this is putting a stop to his plans of traveling to the home office in Germany, especially if he is no longer in charge when the date comes around.  Needing this trip, to find the vampire that turned him into the man he currently is, Vic is even further down on life, but a phone call in the middle of the night from his secretary Nikki will change his outlook for the foreseeable future.  Nikki wants her boss to bite her so that she can also become a creature of the night and although Vic does not think it is a good idea, he pulls out his fangs and grants Nikki her wish.

Feeling revitalized, Vic is now in charge of his own future and with all of the company functions coming up, and he can make a good name for himself.  Especially with a new source of blood coming in so he no longer has to mix his life juice into a Bloody Mary to mask the taste.  But there is someone after Vic and even with getting himself into shape and becoming a proper sexy vampire, he may be no match for the amateur vampire hunter Eugene who only has eyes for Victor, along with his family.  Vic has to match wits inside and outside of the office while on his blood sucking dates, escaping vampire hunters and haters, and trying to keep his office open with the impending merger on the table.  There is something that Vic still wants to know and that is why he has been cursed with such a worthless disease since he has no special powers, none of the drawbacks and only the thirst to make people fear him.  He needs to get to Germany where he knows the woman that changed him is and finally get answers to what he, Vampire Vic really is.

What can I say about Vampire Vic?  I loved it.  A reluctant vampire that has to work a normal everyday job that is down on his luck and does not want to bite a person, this just makes the journey so much more entertaining when it actually happens.  I fell in love with the characters in this book more than I do with most as Nikki is trying to win the approval of her 'master' by bringing him more to eat, Tripp as he is trying to keep Vic on his good side and possibly help find a cure for the disease that changed his friend into a blood sucking heathen and Eugene who just gets the crap kicked out of him at the most inopportune times and has to keep battling to get his first vampire kill.  With plenty of laughs and seriousness, you can see yourself in Vic’s shoes, even if you don’t want to drink blood, as his life needs a kick start in the right direction to get back on track…or maybe you want to drink blood as well, you never know.  Stay Scared.

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