Kill the Dead

I loved Sandman Slim so much, I picked this up the instant I finished it, and did not put it down until I had finished it. (In fact, I read it so quickly, I didn't have a chance to put an entry here and track progress. I devoured it in 3 or 4 days.) Kill the Dead doesn't exactly pick up where Sandman......more

*** 4 *** This is a really cool pulp-noir series with Angels, Demons and Zombies, and you still can't tell who are the good guys! I love the perspective on the whole mythology and it is very well incorporated into a modern world Los Angeles, a city literally full of those souls following the pretti......more

I would hate to have to pay Stark’s clothing and laundry bills because this guy can’t go ten minutes without getting his duds ripped to shreds or covered in the gore of various monsters and his own blood. This series is making me a little nuts. In the first book, Sandman Slim, I thought the first ha......more

"Subtle hunting, acting like a grownup, I really miss Hell sometimes." pg 4 First of all, don't read the Goodreads description of Kill the Dead before you read it. It gives far too much away! Here's a Heidi-no-spoilers blurb that should serve you just as well: James Stark, the half-angel, half-human a......more

This was an OK second instalment of what is turning out to be an OK UF series. It matched the quality of the first book in the series and continued to add a bit of depth to the world and the characters. I'm of the opinion that the Sandman Slim series is neither overly dark or overly light in tone an......more