Every Last Drop: A Novel by Charlie Huston
If you enjoyed the other Joe Pitt novels then you’ll enjoy this one too. If you haven’t read them, but you like hard boiled fiction, then I’d suggest starting from the first book, Already Dead. Every Last Drop does work as a stand-alone novel, but it works better [...]
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Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston - Review
Already Dead by Charlie Huston - Review
Already Dead by Charlie Huston
If Anne Rice and Mickey Spillane had a baby, Joe Pitt would be that child. Charlie Huston brings a new twist on the classic vampire story. Part detective drama, part horror show, Already Dead brings to “life” the tale of Joe Pitt, a semi-detective and full time heavy with a soft [...]
Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston - Review
Every Last Drop: A Novel by Charlie Huston
Huston supplies terse dialogue and convincing gore in expertly pitched prose, but the beautifully cinematic nastiness doesn’t quite mask a key difficulty: Pitt’s enemies set their hate aside too easily at his appearance, and their rational behavior is at odds with the emotional intensity (and sheer implausibility) of [...]
