The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

pixin reviewed The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Kirby Heyborne

If you grinned at the title, you'll probably love this book

5 stars

Note: This review is for the book version by Drew Hayes, not the audiobook version.

I was a tiny bit worried this book would be flooded with self-depreciation and/or just teasing a lot of actually interesting events, but it's hilarious.

At the start of the book Fred is a quiet, bookish, sweater-vest-wearing (vampire) accountant who decides to not only go to his 10-year high school, but to Be Spontaneous while there. He even books the hotel for 4 days, and carefully packs 4 clean changes of clothing, plus 4 days worth of blood, to give himself ample room for Spontaneity.

By the end of the book he's got an eclectic group of friends and they get together regularly to drink their beverages of choice (wine, beer, and soda), and play non-scored Scrabble. (It's not specified that it's non-scored, but with him playing words like "periodontist" and the other two thinking …

Note: This review is for the book version by Drew Hayes, not the audiobook version.

I was a tiny bit worried this book would be flooded with self-depreciation and/or just teasing a lot of actually interesting events, but it's hilarious.

At the start of the book Fred is a quiet, bookish, sweater-vest-wearing (vampire) accountant who decides to not only go to his 10-year high school, but to Be Spontaneous while there. He even books the hotel for 4 days, and carefully packs 4 clean changes of clothing, plus 4 days worth of blood, to give himself ample room for Spontaneity.

By the end of the book he's got an eclectic group of friends and they get together regularly to drink their beverages of choice (wine, beer, and soda), and play non-scored Scrabble. (It's not specified that it's non-scored, but with him playing words like "periodontist" and the other two thinking carefully before playing short, 4-letter words, there's clearly no point.)

The world building is excellent, and more than once what looked like a humorous throwaway line actually comes back to be an important plot element. There's not a lot of wasted text or events, but it all flows very smoothly. I laughed a lot, and quoted a lot of lines at my spouse, and already have the sequel on my to-buy list.

My only quibble is that it sometimes I think the author is stretching their vocabulary too far. There's a few phrases such as "he was donned in armor" where you can get the meaning, but it's the totally wrong word, and it makes you wonder whether it was caused by overly-generous thesaurus use, or a re-phrased sentence that didn't get copy-edited correctly.

Mickey reviewed The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Kirby Heyborne

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3 stars

3/5

If you love goofy stories with silly humor and a gang of monsters this is the book for you. For me it was a bit too much on the silly side though and so it didn’t quite hit the notes I was hoping it would.
The characters are a bit too one dimensional and there is a fair bit of unnecessarily immature descriptions of women for my tastes. Overall it’s a decent casual read split into a handful of separate stories put into a book format.

Wetdryvac reviewed The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Kirby Heyborne

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5 stars

Way more fun than any accounting tales I've read to date.

Wetdryvac reviewed The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Kirby Heyborne

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5 stars

Way more fun than any accounting tales I've read to date.

ghostchaser reviewed The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Kirby Heyborne

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4 stars

4.5 I did enjoy this book. I think it liked it better than Bill the Vampire books.

SpiderKitten reviewed The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Kirby Heyborne

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4 stars

Fred, an Accountant (who also just happens to be a vampire) just wants a quiet life. His idea of a fun night is wine, cheese and cheesy vampire movies. Then one day he decides to go to his High School reunion and he is swept into a series of events that are neither uninteresting nor unadventurous.

I found this novel to be a quick enjoyable read. There was lots of action, and some quiets moments but it flowed well and I didn't feel that the story dragged at any point. The characters we met were interesting and varied and there wasn't too much of any one thing going on. I really enjoyed reading this, and look forward to reading the next book in the series, Undeath and Taxes (Fred, the Vampire Accountant, #2).