the writing used journal and quoted letters format.
here lies the problem, also, the advantage.

It made the story more, err, believable, as in providing historical facts. But at the same time, it drags.
Made it harder to see the characters of the story unless it's written/told.
The same problem I had with [b:Balthasar's Odyssey|212936|Balthasar's Odyssey|Amin Maalouf|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327989025s/212936.jpg|2593317]

Although it didn't happen in the first part of the book, the part about Abe's childhood background. The very promising opening.
Yet, the next ones are awfully anti climactic.

See, any title with 'Vampire Hunter' on it obviously would make people hoping for bloody hunts. Especially if you glued the words into a persona like Abraham Lincoln.
But the main parts of the story hardly fulfilled that 'lust'.
It doesn't circled, the previously-hoped actions and/or the character of adult, vampire hunter, Abe Lincoln.

as a fanfiction, it'd work.
as a book, it failed.

So the upcoming movie, I really hope Timur Bekmambetov and Benjamin Walker will made it.

If it isn't..
well, Dominic Cooper playing vampire...
*ahem*