Review: "Thuglit" is for crime fiction fans who like theirs straight, no chaser. . .
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2014
Great stuff! I found out about "Thuglit" from "Blood & Tacos" at Left Coast Crime 2014. It's my kind of literature -- tough and unyielding. Unsentimental, too, unless you consider "Lucy in the Pit," which made me almost sympathetic with fighting dog trainers.Almost.Some of them, anyway."Luck" by Johnny Shaw was a home-run: George V. Higgins meets Charlie Bukowsky. How can you not like a story in which the main characters are a couple of no-hopers named Scrote and Violence? They are a little like Jay and Silent Bob with a really wicked mean streak."Thuglit" #1 did have its downside, though: now I'm going to have to buy "Hard Bounce" by Big Daddy Thug Todd Robertson, himself. The excerpt included in the maiden issue of "Thuglit" was just too good and too short to satisfy me.I'm a big fan of crime literature with crooks who talk and think like crooks. "Thuglit" has 'em in spades. I could eat this stuff up, myself. If you share my taste in crime yarns, bon appetit!