Review: A decent book, but not my cup of tea
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2012
I'd never read any of the Sandman Slim stories before, and this one popped up in my recommendations.  It sounded like the short story could be read as a stand-alone, and indeed the story wasn't difficult to follow without the previous novels as background material.  The story was fairly well written, but the portrayal of the protagonist was a bit over the top.  A lot of Stark's lines - both the spoken ones and the internal thoughts - sound like they'd be entertaining in a film noir, but didn't translate well for me in written form.  It's a decent story, well edited, and I'm glad I finished it, but I don't know that I will pick up more books in the series.