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Some non-Sandman Slim from Richard Kadrey

The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey

Dead Set by Richard Kadrey

August 23, 2019 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I am a big fan of the Sandman Slim series, especially the narration by MacLeod Andrews who just NAILS the character.  Thus, I tried some of the author’s other books, The Grand Dark and Dead Set.  I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect and yet I feel that my expectations were met.  Both books deal with grim worlds and the occult.  I think I could identify them as Kadrey books even without knowing, but that might be some really strong hindsight bias. I read The […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Dead Set, grim, occult, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, The Grand Dark, YA

thewheelbarrow's CBR11 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Dead Set, grim, occult, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, The Grand Dark, YA ·
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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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