I'm abandoning ship ...I was intrigued during the first few chapters. A Vampyre private eye who is a lone wolf? Well, that is a character that I think I might like. But then as the story progress, I feel like the characterization is flat. I cannot grasp the story because I feel that it is rambling, ...
If you like the movie Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart I think you will like this book. It is a Sam Spade type of detective story where Joe is a great hero and is trying to deal with vampire politics and his own personal demons. I think Huston created an original story about vampires/zombies and ...
When you look down a page and see the f-bomb over a dozen times... it's bothersome. I really can't stand excessive cursing. Maybe at some point in the future I'll read a few more pages until I get sick of seeing a swear every third word.
Already Dead is a rollicking, no-holds-barred film noir vampire pastiche. Main protagonist Joe Pitt is a Mike Hammer with fangs and no suntan. As low vamp on the totem pole, Pitt gets it from all sides of the undead crime underground. Picking no side and forced to do favors here and there for the va...
A strange “vyrus” is creating more zombies than is good for Manhatten. Enter the super sleuth vampire Joe Pitt. A non-traditional take on the vampire culture as lived in NYC. Interesting enough for a change of pace read.
Rating: 3.5* of fiveWhat 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, ...
A Vampyre struggles to stay alive without a blood supply in Charlie Huston's paranormal noir, Already Dead.Every great hero has his nemesis, and for Vampyre Joe Pitt it's Dexter Predo, the head honcho of one of New York's Clans. Joe, meanwhile, goes it alone, though he has his acquaintances, and a H...
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