Bloodsucking Fiends vs Breathers: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Bloodsucking Fiends
“Sundown painted purple across the great Pyramid while the Emperor enjoyed a steaming whiz against a dumpster in the alley below.”
At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of…
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Breathers
For zombie aficionados everywhere, a hilarious debut novel about life (and love) after death.Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and…
Side by side
The verdict
- Readers rate Bloodsucking Fiends highest: Bloodsucking Fiends 4.2 · Breathers 3.8.
- Breathers has the widest readership — 6490 ratings behind its score.
- Breathers runs the darker storyline; Bloodsucking Fiends stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Bloodsucking Fiends | Breathers | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.8 (6490) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (143) | 3.7 (13) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 5.0 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (217) | 4.5 (27) |
Reception
| Bloodsucking Fiends | Breathers | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 217 | 6490 |
| Editions | 6 | 5 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 7538 |
| Reading it now | — | 104 |
| Written reviews | — | 772 |
| Wikipedia attention | 446 | — |
| Pages | 304 | 320 |