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A review by sevaspeto
Aloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I've forgotten how much I've missed Kadrey's pithy dialogue and internal monologues. It's funny to me that it took a good third of the first Sandman Slim novel for me to get over abjectly HATING it, to the point where just reading the first few pages of Aloha From Hell and it was like manna -- it just felt like home =0)
Look, if you've read the first couple books in this series, then you know what you're in for: snappy, pithy dialogue; angels, demons, monsters and everything in between; a fair bit of humour; and just enough blasphemy to keep things interesting. Loved this just as I've loved the earlier entries in the series, but I will say that the ending (say the last 50-60 pages) definitely felt a little rushed -- the climax of where the entire book had built to felt breakneck, to the point where I was certain that it was going to finish on a cliffhanger, but instead, everything just kind of charges through to the conclusion like Michael Bay on a coke bender. I'd appreciate that in most visual mediums, but in a book, I want to savor the details and it very much felt like as the reader, you're being shepherded off the edge of a cliff, haha.
But altogether, still a damn fun read =0)
Look, if you've read the first couple books in this series, then you know what you're in for: snappy, pithy dialogue; angels, demons, monsters and everything in between; a fair bit of humour; and just enough blasphemy to keep things interesting. Loved this just as I've loved the earlier entries in the series, but I will say that the ending (say the last 50-60 pages) definitely felt a little rushed -- the climax of where the entire book had built to felt breakneck, to the point where I was certain that it was going to finish on a cliffhanger, but instead, everything just kind of charges through to the conclusion like Michael Bay on a coke bender. I'd appreciate that in most visual mediums, but in a book, I want to savor the details and it very much felt like as the reader, you're being shepherded off the edge of a cliff, haha.
But altogether, still a damn fun read =0)