BOOK: Sandman Slim ~ Richard Kadrey
I was expecting to enjoy this “supernatural urban noir” novel about escapee from hell (literally) James Stark and his revenge on those who banished him there 11 years prior, as it had the William Gibson blurb of approval on the back cover. However, even with the dirty Los Angeles setting, the interesting juxtapositions of the real and the supernatural worlds existing alongside each other, and dark bloody violence, it became a drag after about 300 pages and a chore to slog through the remaining 100 pages. This could have been a great pulpy novel if it had just been tightened up to about half its length, or even broken into a series.
