Half the Blood of Brooklyn
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Begagnade:
There's a bad vibe in the air. Every Vampyre in Manhattan feels it in their bones ...and in their blood. The mother of all gang rumbles is brewing between the divided Clans of the city's undead. A battle royal for more turf that will tear the island from stem to stern. And just his luck, Joe Pitt is smack in the middle of it. A rogue Vampyre who shunned Clan life, Joe's his own man. Kind of. Thing is, there's certain people have a claim on his talents. When they need someone who's ...expendable, they call on Joe Pitt. They're calling now. With war drums beating from the Hudson to the Harlem River, Joe's been dispatched into the uncharted territory of Brooklyn to seal an alliance with the Freaks - a Clan who more than live up to their name. But across the bridge, things go south with savage swiftness, as Joe gets swept into a murderous family feud between crazed Clans that will paint the borough scarlet from Gravesend to Coney Island.
Bok recensioner av Half the Blood of Brooklyn :
2009-09-24 13:08
This is a bad one for Mr. Huston!
It’s actually a shame Charlie Huston got to publish this sort of Noir suspense novel. Notice that I use the word “suspense” and not “mystery”.
“Half the Blood of Brooklyn” is something that should have been sold as a dossier in order to understand “Every Last Drop”. Nothing of great matter happens in this short novel. But the fact that the book is only 220 pages isn’t an issue because great novels have been written in fewer pages. What is an issue though is that “Half the Blood of Brooklyn” contribute with very little to the life of Joe Pitt. Most of the substance in this book happens towards the end, so the whole expedition to Brooklyn which I guess gives the book its name feels completely meaningless. The meeting between Joe and the radical Jewish lost tribe of Gibeah is to say the least laughable. It got to wonder if Charlie Huston just wanted to fill a few pages. There is no mystery, no purpose with this novel more than to tell you what happens in the last 50 pages.
Another issue is the language, which is too hard to follow. Too many people talks at the same time which make more than a scene difficult to understand.
Toward the end I thought that Charlie Huston would come with a surprise that would leave me speechless; like a sort of compensation for the mediocrity of the novel, but no surprise.
“Half the Blood of Brooklyn” ends and you keep turning the pages thinking that it is a joke. But no joke. I honestly felt as though Charlie Huston and Del Rey had ripped me off of money they don’t deserve.
I’m sorry Mr. Huston but in this novel, as Joe Pitt would say: you fucking suck!
Cheers
CristianHC
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