A small town... a plucky heroine, a shiny vampire, and a hunky Native American rival with a secret. But all is not as it seems in Lake Woebegotten. Let Harrison Geillor reveal what lies beneath the seemingly placid surface. You'll Laugh. We promise. When Bonnie Grayduck relocates from sunny Santa Cruz California to the small town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, to live with her estranged father, chief of the local two-man police department, she thinks she's leaving her troubles behind. But she soon becomes fascinated by another student — the brooding, beautiful Edwin Scullen, whose reclusive family hides a terrible secret. (Psst: they're actually vampires. But they're the kind who don't eat people, so it's okay.) Once Bonnie realizes what her new lover really is, she isn't afraid. Instead, she sees potential. Because while Bonnie seems to her friends and family to be an ordinary, slightly clumsy, easily-distracted girl, she's really manipulative, calculating, power hungry, and not above committing murder to get her way — or even just to amuse herself. This is a love story about monsters... but the vampire isn't the monster.
I received a free digital copy through Net Galley.
Obviously this book is a spoof of Twilight, but it was more than that. While it was easy to determine who the characters were paralleling, they also stood on their own as new characters, rather than caricatures of the Twilight characters. Right off the bat we meet "The Narrator," someone who has promised to fill in the gaps of the story as the heroin, Bonnie Greyduck, shares her journal. Bonnie, put simply, is a nutcase and the small town of Lake Woebegotten doesn't know what's about to hit them! This was just as over the top as its precursor, but much more raw, and honest. However, in the last few chapters of the book, the similarities dwindle and it turns into something quite dark. I would recommend this book to fans of spoofs and anti-Twilighters, or anyone looking for some dark humor.
