So I had to sit on on this one for a while before even committing to a star rating, and even now I’m still not sure about it. I mostly only chose three because it seemed like the most neutral option. This book is hard to think about, hard to digest, and hard to categorize. Ultimately, that’s probably a good thing. Confusing and hard to categorize generally at least means ‘original.’ And Pretty Deadly is certainly original. But it’s also confusing and confounding and hard to […]
I’ve wandered deep in the realm of What the F**k
It’s been three months since the end of the last book and Stark is Downtown but being Lucifer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Enemies at every turn. Suck ups abound. Endless meetings with the council trying to get Pandemonium rebuilt. I’m a magician, an ex-gladiator, a killer, and now the devil himself and my greatest night terrors revolve around lost memos and trying to remember the Hellion word for “incentivize”. Just as I was starting to get a little bored with […]
“I learned your books. Burned them into my mind. In case the firemen come to town.”
There are few things I enjoy more than a well crafted scary short story. As a kid cutting my teeth on Stephen King I loved his short story collections more than anything. Still do for that matter. My favorite collection of King’s is Skeleton Crew. Horror classics like “The Raft”, “The Jaunt”, and “Survivor Type” haunted me for years after reading them. Still do. In recent years Neil Gaiman’s short stories have filled the void King left for me. The first collection I read, Smoke […]
Hail Lucifer
Oh yeah, now we’re cooking with gas. This is the third book in Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series and they just keep getting better. I had to wait over a week and a half for this book after finishing Kill the Dead and it was killing me. Then one glorious morning I got two packages in the mail: my Max Overdrive Video coffee mug and Aloha from Hell. I was doing the happy dance. Things in LA are about as normal as they can be after […]