Tastes Like Chicken

Fat Vampire #2

by Johnny B. Truant

The story of Reginald -- the world's slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire -- continues in this second installment of the FAT VAMPIRE series…

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It's been six months since fast-food-addicted Reginald Baskin was turned into a vampire too fat to live peacefully amongst the glamorous undead -- six months in which Reginald and his two-thousand-year-old maker Maurice have learned that power doesn't equal popularity. Sure, Maurice is now calling the shots, but the Council is up to new and dirty tricks, threatening to once again upset the balance…

But when the Vampire Nation faces genocidal violence at the hands of an unstoppable force and the very future of vampirekind is threatened, Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki must find their allies elsewhere… buried deep underground in a foreign land.

As is the case for the follow-up to any epic tale, Fat Vampire 2 isn't afraid to ask (and answer) the truly important questions in literature and in life:

* Where did vampires come from, and can they possibly survive a force that bests them at every turn... that may even know them better than they know themselves?

* Is there a war coming... and if so, who will ally with whom?

* Why is Wilford Brimley in Reginald's kitchen?

and

* Is that an incubus in your pocket, or is it just really damn cold in here?

You'd better read on and find out, because the big questions never seem to answer themselves.

Genres: Vampires, Horror, Urban Fantasy, Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal

201 pages, ebook

First published October 29, 2012

About the author

Johnny B. Truant is an author, blogger, and podcaster who, like the Ramones, was long denied induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame despite having a large cult following. He makes his online home at JohnnyBTruant.com and is the author of the Unicorn Western series, the Fat Vampire series, The Bialy Pimps, and a handful of other properties and growing every week.

You can connect with Johnny on Twitter at @JohnnyBTruant, and you should totally send him an email from JohnnyBTruant.com if the mood strikes you.

Reviews

[Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good but it wasn’t as funny as the first. Not much else to say about it

[Laura of Lurking · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the look into the myths vampires believe and a look at another vampire culture
I did not however, enjoy the writing nearly so much

The first novel was funny and witty with a main character you just had to love for his hopelessness. That is what got me through the first novel. In this novel he is in control and seems to be about the only vampire with his head screwed on straight. This was a change but for me not a good one.

Much of the comedy was lost to this.
There were long sections of travelling where little happened, or half-said conversations written badly.

It is a shame the author took this route. I am not sure if I will read the next one.

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

A great idea spawns a quick story and then turns into a multi-part series. I liked the opener, but the sequel drags.

[Charlotte · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was ok, but the ending was complete rubbish.

[J.G. Gatewood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wasn't quite as good as the first one and I felt like the ending was a bit of a let down.

[Pip · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 Stars

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second book in the series.. when we learn how vampires were first made and how the angels have the power to kill them all off.. can Fat Reggie save the day??? I was a bit concerned at first that this book wasn't as good as the first but it's a bit like the roller coaster - that first big hill takes some effort to get up but then you arrive at the top and plummet down into all the twists and turns.

[Crissy Moss · Rating 5 out of 5]

A funny, and odd tale about a 300 lb man who becomes a 300 lb vampire.

I loved this story from beginning to end. It has the right mix of mystery and paranormal with a big dash of funny.

[Douglas · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I just blew through all the "Fat Vampire" books in a couple days and they all get "worth the read". This is partly due to the sense of humor employed by the author in the telling but even more so in a pretty good story told well. These are not perfect stories, in particular the MC has a mind-boggling intelligence and yet gets surprised repeatedly. You'd think a highly intelligent being would consider the possibility the bad guys would betray him before it ever happened, let alone by the fifth time it happens, and yet the MC is surprised every time. This is in part due the author painting himself in a corner, by which I mean the MC is given such great mental powers that the author is forced to have his MC surprised to move the author's chosen story forward. However this is also the problem since the author has given the MC such great mental powers it should be impossible to surprise him.

Also, I found the first book the most enjoyable because the MC is dealing with his own immediate problems. Then the MC is put in the position of saving or damning the world. While I can enjoy those stories they only have one possible outcome. Still, the author gets quite inventive in those outcomes so the bottom line is:

While not perfect, these are very enjoyable humous stories that are worth the read.

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars because I didn't love this book, but it was entertaining. There are a ton of mixed reviews about this book -- it seems one either thinks its funny and amazing or one doesn't like it at all. I find that I fall somewhere in the middle. I finished this book about 9 days ago, and I can honestly say I am drawing a blank on most of the book. This could be a symptom of the cold I was coming down with, or maybe the plot just isn't so memorable.

I remember it has something to do with angels and incubuses trying to take over the vampires? Reginald is still the worst vampire ever, but trying to hone his mental abilities. Nikki (a vampire wannabe) is in training, and Maurice is delegating his vampire council duties to avoid being assassinated.

Then they take some trip to Europe or something? I don't really recall why. I don't remember the ending at all, but apparently there was a twist!

Apparently there are 6 books total in this series, but I haven't decided whether to read on or not.

[Mimi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, this one was better. There's been a time skip. Reginald and company are kind of the VIPs of the vampire world in a weird kind of way. New types of vampires are introduced. There's talk of Angels. There's an Incubus. And the mystery of all those dead vampires in the last book needs some answers. But there's always room for practical jokes on the fat kid, but the fat kid has fangs now.

I'm still into this series. Without giving anything away. I still really like these novellas and they're worth the hour or hour and a half they take for me to read. I like Reginald and Maurice and I find myself getting really sad at how wrong SyFy has already gotten the whole thing with "Reginald the Vampire" becoming a very LOOSE adaptation. (Though I love Jacob Batalon as Reginald, I hate that they aren't calling it "Fat Vampire")

The kids who were never cool in school are now running things and they don't exactly know how to do that. But hey! They'll figure it out as they go along! It's a rag tag adventure kind of thing, but not as many pages... but also 4 more books! I don't hate it.

[Bonnie Dale Keck · Rating 5 out of 5]

kindle unlimited

Angels and Demons, Myths and Legends.It's been six months since Reginald Baskin became a vampire too fat to live happily with the beautiful undead — six months in which Reginald and his two-thousand-year-old maker Maurice have learned that safety does not come with power. These days, Maurice is Deacon of the Vampire Nation, but plenty beneath Maurice are still plotting to depose him … or dispose of him. But when a new and ancient threat rears its head, the Nation faces extinction and the truest of deaths — and Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki might be the only vampires able to stop it.


Fat Vampire
Fat Vampire 2: Tastes Like Chicken
Fat Vampire 3: All You Can Eat
Fat Vampire 4: Harder Better Fatter Stronger
Fat Vampire 5: Fatpocalypse
Fat Vampire 6: Survival of the Fattest

Fat Vampire #1 Value Meal (Fat Vampire #1-3)
Fat Vampire Value Meal (Fat Vampire #1-4)
Fat Vampire Big Fat Box Set (Fat Vampire #1-6)

[Vakaris the Nosferatu · Rating 4 out of 5]

all reviews in one place:
night mode reading ;
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About the Book: A mysterious being, a vampire only in name, is brought before Reginald. He makes a mockery out of the precautions vampires took and foretells their genocide about to come at his hands. In this strange game of chess, where the only choices given are die by enemy’s hand or your own, vampires have 30 days to evolve. The way humans did.

My Opinion: A very well written myth and history, I really enjoyed all of that. And since the book is fairly short, there’s not much time for boring fillers, such as traveling places to discover answers that didn’t require any traveling. The minus goes to weirdly uncomfortable bits.

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

I gotta be honest. I'm not a fan of star rated systems. Firstly because I think its lazy to reduce a complex opinion into a single quantifiable amount. And second because of what stars to people often times represent. To me 5 stars means perfect, no flaws, nothing to change. But this is one of the few times I would say 2 stars pretty much sums up my feelings on something. In the case of Fat Vampire 2, ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Fat Vampire 2 takes off shortly after the events of Fat Vampire 1, after Maurice has been made Head of the Vampire Council and Reginald has been made his secretary. Once again, things go sideways when an Angel visits the council and threatens to obliterate all of them unless they can justify their existence. What follows is a slow meandering plot where very little happens and very little is resolved.

I'm not kidding. The plot plods along like Reginald's fat arse and each scene feels more like a setpiece than a link in the chain of the narrative. The Council gets half destroyed, they deliberate, they go to the EU Vampire Council, they deliberate, Nikki gets turned, they deliberate, showdown, plot hook, roll credits. So much of the plot felt disjointed to me to the point when Kenny Loggins showed up, I was like '.....alright, whatever....'

Of course the old cast returns for a second helping but nothing has really changed. Maurice is still the goth-looking snarky old man (who doesn't really act like an old man), Reginald is still just a fat vampire (who's mental capacity is rapidly becoming a plot device instead of a character trait) and Nikki is the eye candy whose turning has turned her into a hyper-sexual hemophage.

The best I can say about Fat Vampire 2 is that its at least functional. I wasn't bored but I wasn't looking forward to that after dinner mint either.

[Kyle Feuerbach · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked the first book, but this one did not live up to its predecessor. I don't mind a good setup book, but the first novel had a clear ending. Sure, it was obvious that the story was going to be continued, but the ending wrapped up the first book nicely.

This book, on the other hand, was a 100% setup. Unlike the first novel, this book cannot stand alone. If I were to stop now, I would feel like this entire book was a waste. It had some great humor but I found myself no longer caring about the characters or their future. As long as the story evolves in book 3, I will be happy. If book 3 serves only as a setup novel for book 4, then I will be done with the series. I hope for more in book 3, but only time will tell.

[Sydnie Macelroy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short, fun read. I'm not sure if it's intended as social commentary about judging on appearance, but the message is in there. Ultimately, it's yet another dude book. The female characters, except for the little girl, Claire, are extremely one dimensional, and that dimension is sex object. Given the name of the book, the name of the author and basically the entire concept, though, the book is pretty much what I expected it to be. Better than the first in the series, and I'm curious to see where it goes.

[WayBackWhen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was less impressed with this one (though I haven’t really been impressed with this series in general). It has the guts for a weirder bizarro style tale but the author remains more positive and sappy than I personally would like. I mean it’s about a fat vampire, a premise with so much gnarly potential, but it goes down a teen route. Not to mention the books feel too short and some events don’t feel natural in pace. I will probably read the third and will judge from there if the series is worth continuing.

[David J. Breeden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always great to follow Reginald, the big one. As well as his companions, Nikki & Maurice. A new vampire that doesn’t measure up to the others, well at least in one category he does. It could be the end, but Reginald is a brain, and will have to work things out. It is a continuing story that is a must for Vampire story lovers. Once you read one, you can’t help but read another. And that is where I’m headed.

[Christy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one starts off right after the first one now Maurice is the deacon of the vampire counselor original as his left hand. An angel comes threatens to kill all the vampires then they go to Europe to try to figure out how to stop him from killing all the vampires. I just wasn’t enjoying the book I started this thinking it was going to be a funny bug but I only caught myself laughing once or twice not really interested in continuing the series.

[Johnny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book two

Mistakes: I found two for sure. Others could be from the way folks talked.
Plot: A short fast read. The solution for the problem comes out of the blue, with no hint as to how the MC figured things out.
Characters: I like most of them. Claire is my favourite in this book.
I rate this 7.5/10

[Philip Melton II · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not Quite as Entertaining, but I Enjoyed It

Like most sequels, Fat Vampire 2 doesn’t quite meet the level of its predecessor. It builds, but the payoff lacks the same punch as the trial in the first book. It still has its moments and Karl is a funny addition I hope to see more of in the next book.

[Curtis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute and Confusing

This second book expands on pretty much everything the first book presented, while still retaining wit and style. The old and new characters are great, and although the plot gets a little ... twisty at times, the ending is a fun show. Recommended.

[T. Giachetti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining

Have this read 5 stars. The author makes the vampires interesting and humorous. So happy someone wrote a vampire book that wasn't dark and dreary. Can't wait to sink my teeth into more books in this series.

[Jon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another wonderful read

Is this the beginning of the end? Reginald and Company have done it again they've saved the vampire race from themselves but now what lies in store for Reginald himself, another awesome book by Johnny can't wait to start the next one.

[Christopher Allen-Poole · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was… an OK book. The first one was better. Will not be reading the subsequent volumes.

The Vampire Accountant series by Drew Hayes was better done, but in both cases these themes are getting a bit old.

[Bram Slaats · Rating 4 out of 5]

still a bit short but I like how they manage to get themselves out of tight situations.
the shortness of the story still makes some situations resolve themselves a bit to quick and look strange that way.

[Michelle Evans · Rating 4 out of 5]

Silly yet entertaining

This book series is so different from what I normally read. It's a quick read and amusing. I love the characters and the plot line is intriguing. I also like how Reginald is an overweight vampire. He's brilliant!

[Paranormal Books R Us · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fat Vampire 2 Review

This book really dove into the deep end plot wise and I was definitely not expecting it in only the second book. And I wasn't expecting that little twist towards the end either. It was very entertaining and I look forward to reading the next one.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reginald, the fat vampire , and his 2,000 year old vampire friend, Marcus , and their son to be a vampire Nikki, face a deadly enemy that may destroy every vampire on earth. How will they get out of this one?

[Sonja Mayo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am enjoying this series, just mindless fun to listen to as I work. Not deep, so not a lot of attachment to characters. I had to ignore the vibe of being fat is never acceptable and you will need to be super special if youre fat.