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lilmissreadalot's review against another edition
3.0
The final book in the Joe Pitt series. Hmmmm. Interesting to say the least. Upset about things went with Hurly. He was probably one of my favorite characters. I think that the whole idea Amanda came up with about the Vyrus, were interesting to say the least. Just glad that Evie's not dead.
the_old_gray_cat's review
3.0
I was insane for the first two Joe Pitt books, obsessively stalking the sequels, but the last couple were less fabulous. This one seemed to promise to wrap up the Joe Pitt saga, and it killed off an epic number of characters, Game of Thrones style, but did not provide a satisfying end or really an end of any sort.
verkisto's review
4.0
My Dead Body was another series I hadn't originally planned to finish, but when it came down to it, I wanted to see how the Joe Pitt Casebooks would end, so I tracked down a copy of the book to read at the last minute. It was good timing, too; the book arrived right after I had finished the book that preceded this one in my reading list.
I had forgotten a lot of what had happened in this series, so I found some good summaries of the first four books here and there to get a general sense of what had occurred previously, but it turns out I could have just started reading the book and gotten a lot of that back. Huston did a good job of covering in broad strokes what had taken place before this book, enough so that I came across stuff I hadn't found through my own research. Characters came back to me, if not when I first came across them again, at least through the reminiscing that Joe covered in his narrative. And, like the events, I rediscovered characters I had forgotten that I had encountered before in this series.
(I should note that enough time had passed since my reading this series that I realized I had confused some of the events from The Strain and its sequels with stuff that happened here, and vice-versa. That led to a lot of those revelations above.)
Huston wrapped up the series well, tying up loose ends and bringing the story to a satisfactory close. When I first started reading these books as a series, and not just individual books, it felt like Huston was pulling in different ideas, and not working an overall plot that followed the entire series. With My Dead Body, he shows that he had a pretty good idea of what he was doing with the series from the beginning, as all the different plots from the previous novels came together into a cohesive conclusion. Or else he's extraordinarily good at winging his plots. Either way, the feat is impressive.
In some ways, the ending was a little too pat. There were a lot of double-, triple-, and even quadruple-crosses in the story, enough that I was worried that those crosses would be the death of Joe Pitt, but he managed to escape most of them unscathed. That makes sense (he's been our first-person, present-tense narrator this entire time, so if he didn't escape them, the story would have ground to a halt), but for a series that's been as brutal and profane as the average Saw movie, I was surprised that we didn't see a bit more tragedy here. Don't get me wrong; this movie wouldn't be a Hallmark Movie of the Week, but after the nihilistic ending of the Hank Thompson series, I was expecting something a lot darker.
I wasn't impressed with Every Last Drop, enough so that I almost didn't finish out the series, and that would have been a mistake. Charlie Huston continues to write gritty, compelling stories filled with anti-heroes and plot twists, and this was the right way to bring the Joe Pitt series to an end. If you've enjoyed the series up to this point, you owe it to yourself to see it all the way through to the end.
I had forgotten a lot of what had happened in this series, so I found some good summaries of the first four books here and there to get a general sense of what had occurred previously, but it turns out I could have just started reading the book and gotten a lot of that back. Huston did a good job of covering in broad strokes what had taken place before this book, enough so that I came across stuff I hadn't found through my own research. Characters came back to me, if not when I first came across them again, at least through the reminiscing that Joe covered in his narrative. And, like the events, I rediscovered characters I had forgotten that I had encountered before in this series.
(I should note that enough time had passed since my reading this series that I realized I had confused some of the events from The Strain and its sequels with stuff that happened here, and vice-versa. That led to a lot of those revelations above.)
Huston wrapped up the series well, tying up loose ends and bringing the story to a satisfactory close. When I first started reading these books as a series, and not just individual books, it felt like Huston was pulling in different ideas, and not working an overall plot that followed the entire series. With My Dead Body, he shows that he had a pretty good idea of what he was doing with the series from the beginning, as all the different plots from the previous novels came together into a cohesive conclusion. Or else he's extraordinarily good at winging his plots. Either way, the feat is impressive.
In some ways, the ending was a little too pat. There were a lot of double-, triple-, and even quadruple-crosses in the story, enough that I was worried that those crosses would be the death of Joe Pitt, but he managed to escape most of them unscathed. That makes sense (he's been our first-person, present-tense narrator this entire time, so if he didn't escape them, the story would have ground to a halt), but for a series that's been as brutal and profane as the average Saw movie, I was surprised that we didn't see a bit more tragedy here. Don't get me wrong; this movie wouldn't be a Hallmark Movie of the Week, but after the nihilistic ending of the Hank Thompson series, I was expecting something a lot darker.
I wasn't impressed with Every Last Drop, enough so that I almost didn't finish out the series, and that would have been a mistake. Charlie Huston continues to write gritty, compelling stories filled with anti-heroes and plot twists, and this was the right way to bring the Joe Pitt series to an end. If you've enjoyed the series up to this point, you owe it to yourself to see it all the way through to the end.
jackassjimmy's review against another edition
2.0
Honestly, this book was a 2.5 stars. There was so much backstory, which to me, seemed more interesting than the novel I was reading. Now coming to good reads, I see this is Pitt#5? Joe Pitt being the protagonist in MDB. I could go looking for the four previous releases but I'm onto many other things.
If you're looking for a decent vampire story, something not mired in romance and smoochy-smoochy give this a look. Definitely something you can bang out in a day or two. Maybe even a weekend, depending on how much Mexican food and coffee you intake.
If you're looking for a decent vampire story, something not mired in romance and smoochy-smoochy give this a look. Definitely something you can bang out in a day or two. Maybe even a weekend, depending on how much Mexican food and coffee you intake.
zachb's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
pa11av's review against another edition
5.0
the whole joe pitt casefiles series is bloody amazing. ha ha, bloody amazing. If you're looking for a different take on the vampire mythos, this is the series to read.
started with a bang and went out in a blaze of glory.
Absolutely loved it.
started with a bang and went out in a blaze of glory.
Absolutely loved it.
restlessunicorn's review against another edition
A fitting series finale (?) for the best Vampyre character to come around in years. I'd pretty much read anything Huston pumps out at this point!