May God have mercy on my soul, this was the next thing I read after listening to 24 hours of lectures on the history of the Civil War. I just could not help it - it looked like it would be a fun read. And boy, was it. I got it in the Shreveport airport late Monday morning, and by the time I went to bed that night in Washington, I'd finished it. I actually apologized to President Lincoln's statue on the Mall on the way back to the hotel room. But it was so good, and how many books about Abraham Lincoln can you say have a happy ending? I can't say I'm going to be reading the author's prior work Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but you never know.
Video promo for the book is here (and well worth watching). The gist of the book is that Lincoln led a secret life hunting the undead, which eventually concluded in his leading the war against the secret vampire society that thrived on slavery which was the real reason for the Civil War. There a great review of the book by the Los Angeles Times here.
After reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on Lincoln and his Cabinet, I feel like I know him well enough to know that he would have been enormously entertained by this book, and would have deeply wished that so much of the loss that he suffered during his life had a reason that was as logical as vampires.