Review: 350 lbs. of lovable vampire finds himself amidst apocalyptic human-vampire warfare, and he's the only one who can help.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
Immortality as a fat guy - Reginald Baskin was turned to save his life...or his existence...as a 350-lb. man dedicated to the consumption of junk food.  Now he's immortal, but he didn't get vampire strength or speed like all the others did.  Instead he got a super brain that makes intuitive leaps that were never conceived before.Humans and vampires have been manipulated into open war, and Reginald is trying to think of how he can avert further bloodshed and death.  He has learned how to glamour other vampires, which only works occasionally, and he can read the past lives of those he's related to with a blood connection.  Now he has to survive long enough to use the information he's gained to find a secret codex that might give him the purported ending to all this chaos.  If he knows the ending, he might be able to modify it with his mental skills and literally save the world.Reginald and his girlfriend Nikki travel to the Antarctic on their own in search of clues to the codex.  Since Reginald falls down a lot and gets out of breath in a few yards, Nikki piggybacks him and runs all night long.  When hanging onto her back proves too exhausting, they stop by a building supply store and get web strapping to make a huge sling, in effect, a baby sling, for Reggie to ride in.Reggie is aided in his quest by a half-human girl of 12, Claire, whose father was an incubus.  When Reggie was first turned, he tried to stalk Claire, but she was too smart for his clumsy skills...but they became friends.  He'd visit at night and they watched Columbo reruns while her drunken mother slept upstairs.  Now Claire and her mother have gone into hiding along with the rest of the human race, but Claire can communicate with her own set of super skills.  She sees all knowledge at once, but can't comprehend how to use it.  Reginald has the ability to codify and apply this knowledge if he can find it, and she can guide him to things.  She can move individual electrons to defeat locks, both mechanical and electronic, and can ring him up on a dead cell phone through similar manipulations.Now Reggie wants to save the world and his friends, and it looks like fate has picked him to make it happen.  But which side did fate put him on?