This is a hard book to review without tons of spoilers. Things that have been building since the first book come to a head and are (mostly) resolved. I’m going to be coy and talk around things because I want you people (yes, I said “you people” and you know who you are) to have the joy of discovery. And People, you should be discovering Sandman Slim. If you are thinking about investing in a series of audiobooks this year, I highly recommend the Sandman […]

Here are the most important things you need to know about Kill City Blues: there are 8 chapters, in the 7th chapter I was devastated, at the end of the 8th chapter I felt like I had read one of the best chapters in the entire series. Kill City Blues opens on a meeting of former Lucifers over coffee and doughnuts. Samael eyed his glazed old-fashioned suspiciously, like maybe it’s haunted. “Charming. Did I invent these? They taste like something designed to destroy mortals from […]

What is the worst thing you can do to an authority hating anti-hero? Put him in charge. Lucifer is in Heaven, all hail Lucifer. Stark’s reward for finishing off the Kissi, averting a war between Heaven and Hell, and killing Mason Faim is being stuck in Hell again, but this time he is The Devil. Look, if this is a spoiler for you, that’s just too bad. You should already be reading the Sandman Slim series. Also, I don’t think it’s really that much of […]

James Stark returns to LA after 11 years in Hell with a mission of vengeance.  The first thing he does is mug a rich coke head, steal his clothes, taser and wallet.  Stark, known to the denizens of Hell as Sandman Slim, the monster other monsters are afraid of, is a classic anti-hero.  He’s sarcastic, not nice, self destructive and he’s hard to kill.  Sandman Slim is sarcastic, not nice, manic, and darkly funny.  My first encounter with Sandman Slim was hearing an audio clip […]