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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  eljabo | Nov 6, 2009 |  What a ride...really, noir for the new millennium is a fair description of the book, the character, the setting and set-up for the series. Hyper-violent, and not for the squeamish. Lots of yech-ptui sexual deviance. Plenty of "Reservoir Dogs"-style torture and cruelty. In the end, I think it's got something fresh to say about the evergreen plot device of hardboiled dick with a heart of gold, a strong girlfriend whose very existence causes him joy, and clients he not only can't trust but whose lies and machinations are calculated to cost him his life. I'd recommend it to the noir readers, but it's not for everyone. (  )3  richardderus | Oct 10, 2009 | This book is a take on vampirism from the point of view of a reluctant vampire. Written in Huston's traditional noir style, it certainly isn't a book for people who are easily offended. The story revolves around Joe Pitt, a vampire who really isn't happy about it. He has few friends and many enemies. There aren't just vampires, either.. zombies (or "victims of zombification") are also found in the book, with lots of gory details. I like Charlie Huston and read his Hank Thompson novels quickly. I think if I have a criticism of this book it would have to be I felt that Joe Pitt and Hank Thompson were essentially the same character. If I read more of Huston and find that his characters are all the same, I may not read many more... but that being said, it is a great hard-boiled, blood and guts, no holds-barred vampire novel. ( ) TheBoltChick | May 10, 2009 | It's surprisingly good. A completely non-romantic whodunnit novel with vampires. Perhaps a few too many scenes with excessive gore, but hey, it's a vampire novel. It's a fast, fun fiction and now I'm all set to read the next in the series (No Dominion). (  )1 crazybatcow | Apr 27, 2009 | 1st edition PB, ST trade  grigoro | Apr 12, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 034547824X, Paperback)Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the movies or old man Stoker’s storybook. It’s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.There’s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. That’s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word. From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn’t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City. Now the Coalition and the girl’s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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