"The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most truly yours and I'm not sorry... New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody--he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks. The subways are his playground ...
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"The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most truly yours and I'm not sorry... New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody--he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks. The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It's almost too easy. Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him--or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were. And neither are the rest of us"--
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In a screenshot The Lesser Dead is vampires during the seventies, living in abandoned train tunnels together under the rule of Margaret, who turned our narrator, Joey Peacock, when he was only fourteen.
I gave this 5 stars because I recommend this book to be read, it is amazing in my opinion. I think he could be your next favorite author. I would also give as a gift, and I plan to read again.
Through his musings and conversational manner we are introduced to other characters that live in the tunnels, around the city or have already passed on to real death. He also gives out facts on vampires in this authors creation, reminding me a little of reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones for werewolves, in the best way. I felt Mongrels was the go to novel for the werewolf myth for me, and Christopher Buehlman is the go to author for the vampire myth. I never really got into Anne Rice's vampires, not knocking those that have, and something about Buehlman's just clicked for me. I read the Suicide Motor Club first and immediately picked up three more titles. The mythos he has built works with his writing style, making his novels a smooth read and very entertaining.
There are taboos in every culture, even for the undead, and when children sized vampires are seen drawing victims from a crowded train, they are put on the spot for how to handle it. The safety of the many are in danger by the risks of the few, and untrained, child vampires. What follows is a novel that shows the differences between human and vampire societies, and how sometimes the differences are very slight. Once again I do not want to give away any spoilers; the novel unravels in its own unique way that is best unspoiled.
