Richard Kadrey

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. I had about two-thirds of the novel left, and I finished it in an evening. […]

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1/13/2019 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Episode 1-33: We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It

Hiddensee, Crooked, The Steel Remains, Hollywood Dead, Bloody Rose, The Invisible Library by Gregory Maguire, Austin Grossman, Richard K. Morgan, Richard Kadrey, Nicholas Eames, Genevieve Cogman

September 4, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

Episode 1-33: We’re Here, We’re 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 his special breed of disappointing fairy tale […]

9/4/2018 prisco's CBR10 Review No:133 |

James Stark, Proximate to Normal

Hollywood Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel by Richard Kadrey

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.

9/3/2018 emmalita's CBR10 Review No:37 |

A Tamer Lucifer than Tom Ellis

Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

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 the potential political trouble in Hell. In terms of story, really all he seemed to […]

6/27/2018 CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:39 |

A Half Angel Rules Hell and Lucifer gets to Heaven

Aloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey

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) since I actually liked Aloha from Hell, maybe a bit better than Sandman Slim, or […]

6/13/2018 CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:37 |

Devil in Details and Missed Chances

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

March 4, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I liked Sandman Slim most of the time. It’s got an interesting premise of a not-fully dead human resident of Hell getting back to Earth, and trying to get revenge on the people who got him sent there. There’s also some interesting side-characters like Vidocq, Candy, and Dr. Kinski (in a very different version than the Coop stories). The various denizens of Hell who show up occasionally are pretty interesting, as is the gradually revealed backstory behind Stark’s trip to Hell in the first place. What gets disappointing is that there’s a lot of little problems that on their own […]

3/4/2018 CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:14 |

The best mechanical octopus tv cat person professor ever

The Wrong Dead Guy by Richard Kadrey

February 3, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

One of the fun things about the Everything Box was that all of the various threads come together pretty neatly at the end, and there was snark and mayhem and thievery and adventure in between. The Wrong Dead Guy has a lot of the same stuff, but it’s missing the coherent ending. The stuff with Nelson overall never comes in to the main storyline, and neither do the Auditors. They just seem to be there for some extra scheming and possible threat to Coop and friends, but mostly Coop. The basic premise isn’t that creative but it’s got the potential […]

2/3/2018 CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:9 |

Too much old, not enough new in the Box

The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey

July 23, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The Everything Box got a lot of attention when it first came out, but I’ve only just now gotten to it. I don’t quite understand what all the hype was about. Yes this is an entertaining adventure story with amusing characters, but I didn’t love it. I enjoyed it, but it just wasn’t as awesome as I was hoping. 3.5 stars. First, it’s so strongly reminiscent of Good Omens (by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman) in terms of characters and plot that it comes off a little unoriginal to me. Coop is the Warlock/Adam character with a tough of Shadow […]

7/23/2017 CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:49 |

Ashlie Daigle on Circe – Mic DropAh whoops. Gonna edit that. Thanks!
blauracke on Book Club Discussion Post: Good Omens#1 I expected it to be funny and to at least make me smile, and that it easily did. I also really liked that it...
octothorp on Like a Sports Movie, In ReverseHuh. I felt the exact same way but about Pella. She just seems to exist so that the men have something to get possessive over,...
LittlePlat on Book Club Discussion Post: Good OmensI felt the same. It was sort of a 'pair the spares' sort of moment
denesteak on Book Club Discussion Post: Good Omens2. To be honest I didn’t really think of it until I saw how many visible women were in the tv adaptation. I think male-led...