Straight Outta Fangton by C.T. Phipps Narrator: Cary Hite
Series: Straight Outta Fangton #1
Published by Indie on August 28, 2017
Genres: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 202
Length: 7 hours and 27 minutes
Format: Audiobook
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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’t all that impressive in a world where they’ve come out to mortals.
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’s 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.
Sometimes, it just doesn’t pay to get out of the coffin.
Ever since I listened to my first C.T.Phipps book, The Rules of Supervillainy (The Supervillainy Saga #1), I’ve quickly come to love Phipps’ humor. I’m truthfully really surprised I haven’t tried this book before now, since I have a love of vampires. This is a great story about an African American vampire who has more than his fair share of bumps in the road. Peter Stone lives in a trailer and works in a convenience store (to which the author used to add in a great Clerks reference).
Peter learns that a newly turned vampire is in the store bathroom. With the lack of the new vamp’s maker, Peter decides he needs to take her to his maker to find out what to do. Problem is, Peter was banished from his maker’s territory of New Detroit. He also learns that this new vamp, Melissa, was part of a vampire hate group called The Human Rights League, which makes things a little weird for someone who is now a vampire. So Peter and his friends must now fight this hate group, which is being manipulated by a vampire, no less.
This is a funny story and everything I expected from C.T. Phipps. There are a ton of pop culture references, including almost every vampire one known to man. From Nosferatus, to Count von Count, to Twilight, to Blacula (of course), and everything in between. There are also the more nerdy references, which I’m used to in a Phipps’ book, because Peter’s servant, David, watches way too many movies, TV and video games. Movie references like Highlander, The Black Adder and Looney Tunes (just to name a few, because I can’t remember them all).
“Which hate group did you belong to?” David asked, showing a complete and admittedly hilarious lack of tact.
“The Human Rights League isn’t a hate group,” Melissa said. “It’s not even anti-vampire, it’s pro—”
“Human?” I finished for her.
Melissa blinked. “Oh Jesus, I never even noticed that before. It is a hate group, isn’t it?”
Narration:
This is my first time listening to a book by Cary Hite. I thought he did a good job with the different voices. I didn’t love them all, but I did enjoy the main characters. I thought that Thoth, Peter’s creator, had a great Haitian/Creole accent. I didn’t mind the women’s voices. I thought he did a great job with pace and tone. I really thought he did a great job bringing out the humor in the dialogue.
About Cary Hite
I am a NYC-based SAG-AFTRA & AEA actor, audiobook narrator, and a pretty swell son of a biscuit eater….
About C.T. Phipps
C.T. Phipps is a lifelong student of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. An avid tabletop gamer, he discovered this passion led him to write and turned him into a lifelong geek. He is a regular reviewer at The United Federation of Charles and the author of Agent G, Cthulhu Armageddon, The Red Room series, Lucifer’s Star, Straight Outta Fangton, and The Supervillainy Saga.
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I started listening to audiobooks when a new book in a series was coming out and I wanted to get a refresher, but didn’t have time to read all the books (I think it was Anita Blake). I fell in love. I stayed with strictly re-reading books that I’d already read for a long time. I eventually tried an audiobook for something that I hadn’t read first and was hooked there too. Now, I listen to audio for both re-reads and first time. I have some series that I’ve given up reading and only listen. I try to get any many books/audiobooks from the library to help save on my budget. Books on CD and the newer digital downloads from the library really allow me to listen more. I then purchase my favorites (because who can wait in line for your favorite book??) and less mainstream books from Audible or some other online retailer.
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I think this would tickle my funnybone, too. I’m glad each book you try by the author is a hit and the new to you narrator worked pretty well with the story.
I found Phipps through trying books narrated by Jeffrey Kafer. I’ve really fallen in love with this author. I love his sense of humor.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
I don’t think I knew about the author or the book but why not one day?
I just found him last year. I actually found him from trying a new book from a narrator I love, Jeffrey Kafer. I’m so glad that I found him. I’ve really enjoyed his work and humor.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
This sounds hilarious, Melanie! Glad you enjoyed.
This book was a lot of fun.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
the first time I came across this book I knew I had to read it. hopefully, soon. So glad you had fun:)
I hadn’t heard of this book before I started reading this author. I’m really loving his work. He does have book two coming out at some point relatively soon.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
Thank you for such a great review!
Thanks. I really enjoyed my time in this world. I can’t wait to see the next book in this series.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
This sounds good, and I like a vampire story where he doesn’t have mass riches. Now of course I am curious about the other book/series you mentioned!
It is nice to have something completely different from the norm. This author is create with sarcasm and pop culture jokes.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
That sounds good. I do like vampires.
It is a fun start to a series. I like vampires too. It seems we went from feast to famine. There just aren’t many vampire books coming out now.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
Lol. I love that title
Isn’t it great?!
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
I will be listening to this one soon. I meant to get to it in October but it just didn’t happen. I am so glad that you enjoyed it, Melanie. I liked the first book in the weredeer series so I thought that this one was worth a try. Great review!
If you liked the weredeer books, you’ll like this one. I hope you enjoy.