We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
“We Sold Our Souls” follows Kris Pulaski. Kris is 47 and after a hellish night working at a motel realizes that her life has a hole in it that she never got back after her band Dürt Würk broke up in the 90s. Kris starts see billboards and ads that her former bandmate Terry is about to put on an epic show. And this makes Kris wonder what happened all of those years ago and what caused her band that was about to make it […]
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Not entirely sure anymore whether I picked this one up because of coffeeshopreader’s review or badkittyuno’s, but between the premise and the cover, I thought it sounded fun. And I think it is, but it’s not quite my cup of tea. I guess it’s a sense of humor thing and sometimes it can be hard to predict what will be incredibly amusing vs. kind of entertaining, even if everything else seems like it should fit. For some reason, something about the vibe reminded me of […]
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
I’m not much of a listener of metal genres, but We Sold Our Souls seems almost like a novelization of a heavy metal song, one of the ones with a Satanic tinge. Basically, Kris is a middle aged wash-out who in the past had been the lead guitarist of a metal band on the cusp of fame, only to be thwarted by the ambitions of her bandmate Terrence. Years after a disastrous night during which the band breaks up, the details of which are fuzzy, […]
