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Really Unreal (pun intended)

The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey

August 15, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 15 (Far and Away) What makes The Grand Dark so interesting is that there’s a lot of recognizable elements to it, but at the same time it’s so very much not reality. Overall, this is a creepy but intriguing world because bits are familiar, but then the rest is either too vague or too unnatural. That’s what makes the whole thing, the setting and the story, something you recognize and at the same time really different- the unfamiliar familiar. It’s also a world apart […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Richard Kadrey, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, The Grand Dark

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:64 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Richard Kadrey, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, The Grand Dark ·
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Ending with a Zombie Killing Porn Star and a Priest in a Bar

Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

January 13, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I continue with my end of year promise to finish several started but unfinished books before beginning anything new. Next up: Devil Said Bang, Sandman Slim #4. Maybe it was the month or few between starting and picking it back up, but this one seemed to have a lot less action, and a lot more of Stark inside his own head or contemplating his situation or himself. I’m not complaining about this, it just seems a little different from the previous novels in the series. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: devil said bang, devils, ghosts, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: devil said bang, devils, ghosts, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim ·
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Episode 1-33: We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It

September 4, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

https://killingmykindle.com/2018/09/04/episode-1-33-were-here-were-queer-get-used-to-it/ Wherein I review: 128. Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire 129. Crooked by Austin Grossman 130. The Steel Remains (A Land Fit For Heroes #1) by Richard K. Morgan 131. Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim #10) by Richard Kadrey 132. Bloody Rose (The Band #2) by Nicholas Eames 133. The Invisible Library (Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman I wax ecstatic over the recent trend of inclusion of homosexuality in fantasy and fiction and how it makes all the neckbeards cry into their fedoras.  Gregory Maguire brings […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: a land fit for heroes, austin grossman, bloody rose, crooked, Genevieve Cogman, gregory maguire, hiddensee, Hollywood Dead, killing my kindle, nicholas eames, podcast, richard k morgan, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, the band, the Invisible Library, the steel remains

prisco's CBR10 Review No:133 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: a land fit for heroes, austin grossman, bloody rose, crooked, Genevieve Cogman, gregory maguire, hiddensee, Hollywood Dead, killing my kindle, nicholas eames, podcast, richard k morgan, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, the band, the Invisible Library, the steel remains ·
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James Stark, Proximate to Normal

September 3, 2018 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

It’s so hard to talk about the 10th book in a series without getting into spoilers. The Sandman Slim series is my very very favorite book series. Of all time. It is currently unfolding, but I truly do love it more than any series I have ever read or am currently reading. It’s difficult for me to talk about because I want everybody to read it, so I go into too much detail and then start reading whole chapters out loud. But I want you to have to experience I’ve had of not knowing what’s going to happen next.

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: cbr10bingo, Dream Vacation, Hollywood Dead, McCleod Andrews, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, Urban Fantasy

Emmalita's CBR10 Review No:37 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: cbr10bingo, Dream Vacation, Hollywood Dead, McCleod Andrews, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, Urban Fantasy ·
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A Tamer Lucifer than Tom Ellis

June 27, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Given the intricacy and violence of the other two books in the series I’ve read, I was a little surprised at how tame Lucifer actually was in Kill the Dead. I was all ready for some kind of intricate, elaborate super-scheme when the devil hires Stark at the end of Sandman Slim for bodyguard duty. The only thing for most of the novel that Lucifer seemed to be up to was actually supervising his biopic and using that as an excuse to stay away from […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: kill the dead, Lucifer, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, Urban Fantasy, zombies

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: kill the dead, Lucifer, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, Urban Fantasy, zombies ·
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A Half Angel Rules Hell and Lucifer gets to Heaven

June 13, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

I annoyed myself when I realized that I’d skipped a novel. This is in fact the third, not the second. In itself, this isn’t a bad thing, except I now know major spoilers from that installment. Then I realized, that had I read some of those spoilers in their story, I might have had to quit the series since a character apparently dies of whom I was quite fond in the first novel. That would have been a bit of  a shame (the giving up) […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: aloha from hell, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:37 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: aloha from hell, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim ·
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