Actual rating: 3.5 stars. Such a pathetically low rating. I should be ashamed of myself and stuff.Okay. I can do this. Of course I can. This is the weakest instalment in the series so far and most certainly my leastest favoritest and I would have given it 3 stars if it wasn't for my boyfriend Jimmy Stark and my being slightly full of fish but let's pretend that I never said this and that you didn't read it and that all is well is the world so yay and stuff.Just a little something to distract you...

3 StarsI love Sandman Slim and Richard Kadrey. These books are a very guilty pleasure of mine that makes me a very biased reviewer. James Stark aka Sandman Slim, as well as many other names is one of my all-time favorite monsters… I mean hero!Kill City Blues is unfortunately the weakest book in the whole series. Not only is the story thin, the plot line weak, our heroes also feel washed out and grey. That being said, I still loved every minute of this book and ate up every word. I cannot spend e...

This whole series, to date, has been fabulous. Can't wait to read the next one. I like how the author sneaks in previous events in case you've forgotten how Sandman Slim's adventures all started and how far they have progressed in his current effort to save a dysfunctional world with dysfunctional deities.

Sandman Slim is pretty badass and I think series like this are contributing quite a bit to the genre. But after having read Kill City Blues last night I couldn't help feel that the author is running out of ideas. Sandman Slim is still kicking ass, make no mistake, but he isn't going anywhere. Upon completing this book I felt like had seen an episode of Sandman Slim The Series, everything is back to normal and now hurry up and wait for the next episode. Nothing happened (other than drinking, kick...

Either I'm getting tired of Sandman Slim and his attics, or this book wasn't as entertaining as the previous instalments, but it felt like it took forever to get going. For the first 150 pages or so it was downright boring, probably why it took me almost to mid-June to finish it even though I had started it back in February. Once we get to the Kill City part, the action is fun and non-stop and the whole idea of an abandoned supermall turned into a shelter/horror show for the lowest of the low of...

Sorry, Jimmy...I can't believe I'm saying this, but I had to rate one of your books only 3 stars. If I'm being completely honest, more like 2.5 stars, but don't worry, I'm not breaking up with you. I still love you and your snarky, devilish, nefarious ways.But.This book was a disappointment. The last one, Devil Said Bang, wasn't exactly a favorite of mine, either, but this one was even worse. In this story, Stark is searching for the Magic 8-Ball--which he lost in Devil Said Bang--in order to sa...

Pet’s $0.024.5 starsI forgot how much I LOVE Mr. Stark! Jimmy is just one of those guys you want to hang out with because he gets into more shit in a short amount of time than should be possible. It’s almost an unintentional skill.I like his style. He doesn’t give one actual fuck who he pisses off, and some of them are gods. He only really cares about two people. Candy, his girlfriend, and himself. Not necessarily in that order. Even his best friend, Kasabian, I don’t think really likes him all

Still a really good book, just felt a bit slower than the ones before it.

2.5 stars.The last 180 pages of Kill City Blues were excellent. The sort of gritty, violent fun I've come to expect from Kadrey.I almost didn't make it to those last 180 pages, though, because the first 200 were SOOOOOOOO BOORRRINNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.So boring.

Richard Stark might be back from Hell--again--but he just can't help doing the Devil's work. Since getting out of his job as the new Lucifer, and passing it off to one of five pieces of God himself, Mr. Munnin, Stark is trying to settle back into life in Los Angeles. He's rejoined with his angel half, has the key to the Thirteen Doors once again, he's back with his main squeeze Candy, and he still has the run of Lucifer's penthouse. Compared to board meetings and other forms of infernal bureaucr...

While I will be the first to admit this is the weakest book of the series (so far), it is STILL a very fun novel. Why? We've got a de-powered Stark having to solve his own f**k-ups after having been an idiot. This is NOT a dealbreaker. After all, such amazingly messed up choices should come with massive consequences, and here we go...So why aren't I giving this a full five stars? Because, compared to the full ramp-up OTT OMG how the hell did we get HERE from THERE books, it's ONLY, MERELY a MacG...

Now that was awesome! A book full of eccentric characters with attitude - Badass attitude. Speaking of Badass, Christal and I do a joint review of this book on Badass Book Reviews. Check it out!I must admit that I had a goofy smile on my face while reading Kill City Blues, the fifth book in Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series. Kadrey’s wit and dark sense of humor makes this series a favorite of mine. No one writes dark urban fantasy like Richard Kadrey. The world of Sandman Slim is so intri...

"Being afraid is one of the realities of existence." Some of my favorite monsters heroes are Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath from Prince of Thorns and Darrow from Red Rising. These guys have some serious competition from Sandman Slim.I am accepting the fact that I am aspiring to be Sandman Slim and possessing his colorful vocabulary. Read this -"The Beverly Wilshere Hotel is so posh it gives the Taj Mahal a hard-on." As usual, no need to comment on plot and characters. In this book, Sandman Slim

Note: I finished this last night before crashing. I was not a happy camper when I realized the book was over. I'm going to let the story sit and write my review later. It started out so promising and then it backpedaled sideways. Grrr. Worst transition piece and perhaps my least favorite of the series.

See this review and others like it at BadassBookReviews.com!Christal and AH's Review - 5 Skulls - A+Kill City Blues was a definite high point in a consistently entertaining and slightly disturbing series. AH and I both loved this book and gave it 5 stars!James "Sandman Slim" Stark:AH: I think Stark has got to be one of the most badass characters I've encountered in urban fantasy. I love his "devil-may-care" attitude (pun definitely intended).Christal: Lol, nice one! I agree, Stark is hardcore an...

Whilst I enjoyed the book I would say it's more like a high 3 stars and that 4 stars is a bit generous. The reason for this was this book was just not as good as the other books in this series. The story just took too long to get to the meat - it meandered around for about half the page count. Once we get to the actual story - a trip through a hellish abandoned shopping mall (is there any other kind?)to find a weapon that is supposed to be able to kill gods , things really picked up. There are s...

Kill City Blues is the fifth entry in the Sandman Slim series and I am happy to say that the author has really gone back to the real roots of the series. Stark's back, having dumped the devil job on someone a little more qualified, he and the gang have been doing alright. They are still trying to track down the Qomrama Om Ya, or as Stark refers to it as the Eight Ball, which happens to be the only thing that can stop the old gods from destroying the universe. You could say it's pretty important....

This is not the place to start reading Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim books. (The earlier four, in order for your convenience, are Sandman Slim; Kill the Dead; Aloha from Hell and the one I just read, Devil Said Bang—go thou and do likewise, then come back.)Kill City Blues downshifts significantly from the reckless momentum of its predecessors. Some fans of the series may even feel a bit betrayed by how long this book takes to get rolling—we're more than 150 pages in before we find out what Kill

*********************************************Title: Kill City BluesAuthor: Richard KadreySeries: Sandman Slim Book 5Pages: 383Genre: Urban FantasyRating Out Of 5 Stars: 4.5 ********************************************* “He gave me a lopsided grin. Not a nice grin. The kind a headsman gives you when he doesn’t like you and know his axe is good and dull today." Goodreads/General Synopsis: Stark renounce his title as the new Lucifer and settles back into life in LA. But he's not out of trouble yet

I love the Sandman Slim series, I don't care what anyone says. I'll fight them all! Okay, okay. Enough of that. So, here we are in the fifth in the series. Kill City. Stark is trying to find the 8 ball, or at least keep it away from the bad guys. He ends up having to search Kill City, which is an old mall that has become something of an enchanted wasteland of sorts.Kill City is full of the razor sharp wit and pointed banter that we've come to expect with Stark and Company. One of the reasons I l...