Review – Straight Outta Fangton by CT Phipps

Take this as you will, but I’ve come to see CT Phipp’s work as the book equivalent of a pair of comfy slippers. Sure, there’s always the excitement of picking up a new book and wondering whether it will be the next [insert favourite book here], but there’s also the possibility that it could be the next DNF.

 

Not so with this author, you know what you’re getting into – lots of humour, pop culture references, a plot full of twists and turns, and a jaded and sarcastic everyman/woman type. Assuming you can count vampires and weredeer as everyman/woman types.

In Straight Outta Fangton we have a vampire who works in a 7/11 clone with his irreverent servant who is also his best friend. When they find a recently turned woman in the washroom, you just know things are about to spiral out of co

ntrol.

Fangton is set in New Detroit, in the same world as the author’s Weredeer books (do I smell a crossover?), and has a class system of vampires, corrupt cops, vampire hunters. other monsters and all the usual CT staples. It’s a laugh, pokes fun at genre tropes and the plot will keep you guessing. The audiobook, which I had the pleasure of listening to, is well worth your time.

I’ve read a bunch of the author’s work, and I’ve enjoyed each and every one of them (although some more than others). If you like his books, then you’ll like this one. If you haven’t, this would be a good place to start.

A more than respectable 4/5

(Ironically, I don’t wear slippers. I actually hate them)