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...
Book 1 ~ Sandman Slim Author: Richard Kadrey Performed by MacLeod Andrews Released: July 2011 by Brilliance Audio Category: Noir/Urban Fantasy James Stark has spent the last eleven years in Hell as the slave of Azazel, Lucifer’s second favourite general, fighting for his life in the arena and as...
Surprisingly good, for a pop-horror novel, would make a not-half-bad miniseries on SyFy. Writing style is suitably snarky, if a little cheeky at times. Characters, including that of Slim, are original and refreshing. The plot is strong and cool, with original unexpected elements creeping in here and...
I don't normally like urban fantasy, nor do I care much for anything involving Heaven, Hell, or any of the mythical beasts roaming around those lands. The difference here is Richard Kadrey's writing. His prose is faster than a bullet and as vulgar as a sailor pounding the back door out of a two doll...
This book was alright. It is excellently well written, very entertaining, and quite intense...it just wasn't for me. Sandman Slim is the story of James Stark (The Sandman Slim) who is a practicing magician, or was, until his circle betrayed him and sent him to Hell. 11 years later, after somehow sur...
The Sandman was the most unintelligent anti-hero ever. Run into danger, get hurt, do it again with more anger. Everyone in the story was an asshole, asshat, or an ass. I wasn't feeling this story. A lot of the characters had the same voice! Even steal-your-soul Lucifer was all hey, can I borrow tha...
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