{"id":13454,"date":"2017-09-11T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2021-10-30T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T03:32:41","slug":"review-of-straight-outta-fangton-by-c-t-phipps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/review-of-straight-outta-fangton-by-c-t-phipps\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of Straight Outta Fangton, by C.T. Phipps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13455\" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/36187036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/36187036.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/36187036-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I received an Audible copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C. T. Phipps<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/Sci-Fi-Fantasy\/Straight-Outta-Fangton-Audiobook\/B0753TWNBB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Straight outta Fangton<\/a> through AudioBookBoom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description from Goodreads:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who is wondering where his nightclub, mansion, and sports car is. Instead, he is working a minimum wage job during the night shift as being a vampire isn\u2019t all that impressive in a world where they\u2019ve come out to mortals.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Exiled from the rich and powerful undead in New Detroit, he is forced to go back when someone dumps a newly-transformed vampire in the bathroom of his gas station\u2019s store. This gets him fangs-deep in a plot of vampire hunters, supernatural revolutionaries, and a millennium-old French knight determined to wipe out the supernatural.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes, it just doesn\u2019t pay to get out of the coffin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis was really quite good; funny in a witty, sarcastic way, with a widely diverse cast and entertaining plot. Cary Hite did a wonderful job with the narration, which only enhanced my enjoyment of the book.<\/p>\n<p>Going in, I was a bit iffy about the main character being a black vampire and\u00a0<i>joking<\/i>\u00a0about this at times, with the author being white. There are jokes people can make about themselves and their own group that outsiders really just shouldn&#8217;t. But I never felt Phipps was irreverent or insulting about his characters in any way. Peter and crew were marvelous!<\/p>\n<p>I thought a lot of the geekdom references were funny, but I also thought they went a little overboard; too much of a good thing, if you will. Abut all in all, however, I loved this and hope for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an Audible copy of C. T. Phipps&#8216; Straight outta Fangton through AudioBookBoom. Description from Goodreads: Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who is wondering where his nightclub, mansion, and sports car is. Instead, he is working a minimum wage job during the night shift as being a vampire isn\u2019t all that impressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[397,231,986,2151,69,142,143],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksbook-review","tag-audiobook","tag-book-review","tag-c-t-phipps","tag-crossroad-press","tag-funny","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20047,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions\/20047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}