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* UnfortunateImplications: On top of the incredibly stereotypical characters and Lacey's [[spoiler:brutal gang rape]], [[https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1M6SM1N045N12/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0765307057 as this review of the short story (which the first half of the book borrows heavily from) points out]] it appears that if you want to effectively fight vampires, then you may as well become a devout Catholic. Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and all other faiths and denominations are obsolete since only Catholic symbols can harm them. The book goes out of its way to show Zev constantly lamenting the obsolescence of his Judaism, which culminates in a [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice, where he impales himself and Palmeri on a wooden stake]]. Possibly mitigated, because [[WordOfGod F. Paul Wilson]] refers to himself in the introduction as a "recovering [Catholic]".
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** James Barrett is a [[EliteMook high-ranking cowboy]] and TheRenfield to Franco. Where most other cowboys are horny, ignorant {{corrupt hick}}s who want to become vampires at worst and desperate {{punch clock villains}} trying to protect their families at best, Barrett is a highly educated, cannibalistic CorruptCorporateExecutive who treats Franco's empire like a business. When he first sees Joe naked, he examines the flesh on his body with the hopes of getting to cook and eat it. When Neal — another cowboy and the only person he held in even remotely high regard — dies, he only misses him because he was good muscle and a source of amusement. At the climax of the book, when it looks like Joe is about to throw Franco out into the sun, Barrett comes out holding Sister Carole at knifepoint, bargaining to let her live if Joe lets go of Franco.
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** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive James Barrett Barrett]] is a [[EliteMook high-ranking cowboy]] and TheRenfield to Franco. Where most other cowboys are horny, ignorant {{corrupt hick}}s hicks who [[ImmortalityImmorality want to become vampires vampires]] at worst and desperate {{punch clock villains}} villain}}s trying to protect their families at best, Barrett is a highly educated, cannibalistic CorruptCorporateExecutive [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] who treats Franco's empire like a business. When he first sees Joe naked, he examines the flesh on his body with the hopes of getting to cook and eat it. When Neal — another cowboy and the only person he held in even remotely high regard — dies, he only misses him because he was good muscle and a source of amusement. At the climax of the book, when it looks like Joe is about to throw Franco out into the sun, Barrett comes out holding Sister Carole at knifepoint, bargaining to let her live if Joe lets go of Franco.
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* FoeYay: Barrett stares at Joe when he's naked, not because he wants to have sex with him, but because [[ImAHumanitarian he wants to eat him]].
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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:All of the main antagonists are killed rather quickly and unceremoniously.]] Especially [[spoiler:Franco,]] who [[spoiler:Vampire!Joe]] is able to beat with relative ease without much of a fight, and his death is only stalled when [[spoiler:Barrett threatens Carole.]]
* AssPull: [[spoiler:Joe somehow surviving after killing Franco, despite being his get.]]
* CompleteMonster:
** Father Alberto Palmeri, the EvilCounterpart to [[BadassPreacher Father Joe]], is a former PedophilePriest turned vampire. Before the events of the book, he molested numerous children—with increasing frequency towards the end of his human life— at St. Anthony's Church, and [[KarmaHoudini managed to get away with it]] because an altar boy had fingered Joe as the molester. When the plague of vampirism that had been ravaging the world hit New Jersey, [[DirtyCoward his first course of action was to hide in the nuns' convent]]. After being found by a group of cowboys and turned by a [[MonsterProgenitor Prime vampire named Gregor]], he took up the role of SinisterMinister in a desecrated St. Anthony's, performing gruesome rituals that involve the [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice of humans]] to his undead congregation. During the assault on the purified St. Anthony's, he attempts to turn Joe, dangling his friend, the rabbi, Zev, over the church balcony and just above a wooden stake, [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure threatening to drop him if he refuses]].
** Franco is the vampire king of New York. He oversees the [[PeopleFarms blood ranches]], where human women as young as fifteen are rounded up by cowboys who earned enough "brownie points" for "stud time", which involves the rape and impregnation of the women in order to replenish the vampires' depleted blood source for future generations. After his meeting with Joe, he feeds him to a mindless feral vampire named Jason Devlin who he keeps as a pet in the hopes of Joe being left with even less sapience than Devlin. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain This plan backfires]] when Joe's wounds are cauterized by the sun when Lacey and Carole go out to the beach to bury him, but he's left fighting to retain his humanity for the remainder of the novel.
** James Barrett is a [[EliteMook high-ranking cowboy]] and TheRenfield to Franco. Where most other cowboys are horny, ignorant {{corrupt hick}}s who want to become vampires at worst and desperate {{punch clock villains}} trying to protect their families at best, Barrett is a highly educated, cannibalistic CorruptCorporateExecutive who treats Franco's empire like a business. When he first sees Joe naked, he examines the flesh on his body with the hopes of getting to cook and eat it. When Neal — another cowboy and the only person he held in even remotely high regard — dies, he only misses him because he was good muscle and a source of amusement. At the climax of the book, when it looks like Joe is about to throw Franco out into the sun, Barrett comes out holding Sister Carole at knifepoint, bargaining to let her live if Joe lets go of Franco.
* FoeYay: Barrett stares at Joe when he's naked, not because he wants to have sex with him, but because [[ImAHumanitarian he wants to eat him]].
* {{Squick}}: After being [[spoiler:raped]] by a gang of cowboys, [[spoiler:Lacey's]] naked and unconscious body, bleeding from every hole, is thrown before Olivia.
* UnfortunateImplications: On top of the incredibly stereotypical characters and Lacey's [[spoiler:brutal gang rape]], [[https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1M6SM1N045N12/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0765307057 as this review of the short story (which the first half of the book borrows heavily from) points out]] it appears that if you want to effectively fight vampires, then you may as well become a devout Catholic. Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and all other faiths and denominations are obsolete since only Catholic symbols can harm them. The book goes out of its way to show Zev constantly lamenting the obsolescence of his Judaism, which culminates in a [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice, where he impales himself and Palmeri on a wooden stake]]. Possibly mitigated, because [[WordOfGod F. Paul Wilson]] refers to himself in the introduction as a "recovering [Catholic]".
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* AssPull: [[spoiler:Joe somehow surviving after killing Franco, despite being his get.]]
* CompleteMonster:
** Father Alberto Palmeri, the EvilCounterpart to [[BadassPreacher Father Joe]], is a former PedophilePriest turned vampire. Before the events of the book, he molested numerous children—with increasing frequency towards the end of his human life— at St. Anthony's Church, and [[KarmaHoudini managed to get away with it]] because an altar boy had fingered Joe as the molester. When the plague of vampirism that had been ravaging the world hit New Jersey, [[DirtyCoward his first course of action was to hide in the nuns' convent]]. After being found by a group of cowboys and turned by a [[MonsterProgenitor Prime vampire named Gregor]], he took up the role of SinisterMinister in a desecrated St. Anthony's, performing gruesome rituals that involve the [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice of humans]] to his undead congregation. During the assault on the purified St. Anthony's, he attempts to turn Joe, dangling his friend, the rabbi, Zev, over the church balcony and just above a wooden stake, [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure threatening to drop him if he refuses]].
** Franco is the vampire king of New York. He oversees the [[PeopleFarms blood ranches]], where human women as young as fifteen are rounded up by cowboys who earned enough "brownie points" for "stud time", which involves the rape and impregnation of the women in order to replenish the vampires' depleted blood source for future generations. After his meeting with Joe, he feeds him to a mindless feral vampire named Jason Devlin who he keeps as a pet in the hopes of Joe being left with even less sapience than Devlin. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain This plan backfires]] when Joe's wounds are cauterized by the sun when Lacey and Carole go out to the beach to bury him, but he's left fighting to retain his humanity for the remainder of the novel.
** James Barrett is a [[EliteMook high-ranking cowboy]] and TheRenfield to Franco. Where most other cowboys are horny, ignorant {{corrupt hick}}s who want to become vampires at worst and desperate {{punch clock villains}} trying to protect their families at best, Barrett is a highly educated, cannibalistic CorruptCorporateExecutive who treats Franco's empire like a business. When he first sees Joe naked, he examines the flesh on his body with the hopes of getting to cook and eat it. When Neal — another cowboy and the only person he held in even remotely high regard — dies, he only misses him because he was good muscle and a source of amusement. At the climax of the book, when it looks like Joe is about to throw Franco out into the sun, Barrett comes out holding Sister Carole at knifepoint, bargaining to let her live if Joe lets go of Franco.
* FoeYay: Barrett stares at Joe when he's naked, not because he wants to have sex with him, but because [[ImAHumanitarian he wants to eat him]].
* {{Squick}}: After being [[spoiler:raped]] by a gang of cowboys, [[spoiler:Lacey's]] naked and unconscious body, bleeding from every hole, is thrown before Olivia.
* UnfortunateImplications: On top of the incredibly stereotypical characters and Lacey's [[spoiler:brutal gang rape]], [[https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1M6SM1N045N12/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0765307057 as this review of the short story (which the first half of the book borrows heavily from) points out]] it appears that if you want to effectively fight vampires, then you may as well become a devout Catholic. Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and all other faiths and denominations are obsolete since only Catholic symbols can harm them. The book goes out of its way to show Zev constantly lamenting the obsolescence of his Judaism, which culminates in a [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice, where he impales himself and Palmeri on a wooden stake]]. Possibly mitigated, because [[WordOfGod F. Paul Wilson]] refers to himself in the introduction as a "recovering [Catholic]".
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