Review: Adventurous, both with form and content.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2013
It's hard not to admire's Roger Smith's love for risk and experimentation. ISHMAEL TOFFEE was bold enough, but this is quite something else. It's so different from what Smith usually does, it actually warrants the use of a pen name.VILE BLOOD is best described as EVIL DEAD meets THE DEVIL'S REJECTS.It maintains a nimble balance in between psychological horror, supernatural and gore. Maybe there is a little too much useless gore for my own taste, but that's a pet peeve of mine, so don't mind me. If you like your horror complex, dark and especially not obvious like most new horror books out there, it's worth the time and money investment.Warning though, you have to be patient with Roger Smith's novels. With VILE BLOOD more than the others, but what a payoff! Maybe it's not the perfect book to begin with this author, because you have to trust him and go through it without asking questions, but if you do like me, it's worth the investment because no matter the genre he writes in, Smith never loses sight of the big picture and always tells a terrific story.