Sandman Slim
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061714306 (0061714305)
Publish date: July 21st 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 388
Edition language: English
Series: Sandman Slim (#1)
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.I feel like I have been wanting to read this book forever. I bought the ebook more than eight years ago and added the audiobook to my collection nearly six years ago. I am not really sure why it took me so long to finally get started wit...
"Sandman Slim" is a frenetically-paced, relentlessly gore-splattered story, powered by some clever trope-twists on the Christian angel myths and told from the point of view of a magic-using anti-hero whose mood flips from maudlin self-pity through smart-mouthed aggression to lethal frenzied blood lu...
So this was a good read. It had some lenghty parts, that I didn't enjoy too much, but I never had to really start skimming, so all good. The first 2/3rds were really good, it had a nice dark world-building and a pretty fresh feel. Then it went a bit downhill for me. It suddenly was not all that ...
I recently purchased my very first Humble Book Bundle, and this book was part of it. I had wanted to read it for a long time and was excited to get a copy. In the end, my feelings about it were mixed.When we first meet Stark, he has just managed to make it out of Hell, after having spent 11 years th...
~~Moved from GR~~ Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim #1) by Richard Kadrey Recommended for: Fans of gritty, darkly humorous urban fantasy When I first started the book, I disapproved of the main character, James Stark, but I couldn't help liking him. He way way far to the left of the antihero meter; after...
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