#14 Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim #1) by Richard Kadrey

[missingvolume]

This is for my friend ratseal who has pestered me for a long time to give this a read.

I liked the antihero of this book. Is Stark a good guy? Certainly not in the white hat noble way of looking at things. He is constantly stealing cars but only really expensive ones from people that can afford it. Even though he has spent many years in hell due to his magical friends sending him there he is completely motivated by revenge and to be honest who can blame him. The "good guys" in the book certainly don't like him since there is a prophesy about his coming but he certainly isn't acting the part of a good deed doer. The spoiler about "who" he is was interesting to me since this idea has been cropping up in more books that I have been reading in the last few years. No good myth shall go unplundered by writers. I plan on reading the rest of the series but I will not be gobbling them down. It is nice to know that when I need a good read I can pick up the next book and have a good time. 



  

Comments

[ratseal.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you liked it - book #2 is stronger, and #3 a shade less so. I am awaiting #4 - and thus in need of a fix.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Try Harry Connelly's Child of Fire. The hero of that sorta reminds me of this book. Not the same but the same antihero feeling. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295541-child-of-fire

[ratseal.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[gryphonlsb.livejournal.com]

good to hear, i have had it at the shop for a while but never picked it up.