Just thought I’d note what I’m reading at the moment. It’s scheduled to be published in the U.S. in October and in the UK in December. This is Charlie Huston’s fifth novel depicting the adventures of Joe Pitt, and about 50 pages in I feel like we are back on track in a series that really surprised me, as getting me interested in any vampire Vampyre related novel is close to an impossibility. The first novel is the hook and full of energy–it’s legitimately hard not to like.
The second novel is No Dominion, which is probably the best of the bunch. It’s very Empire in that we think it’s better but it take nothing away from the pure enthusiasm that Already Dead instilled in us. Half the Blood of Brooklyn was also fine, but I really thought that the last novel, Every Last Drop represented a bit of a mess and seemed oddly misplaced throughout. The beginning of the novel was hard to get through, and it almost felt like this was a book that had a hard publication date that it wasn’t ready for. The end of the novel very much felt it had just begun (minus some admittedly essential discoveries within the novel) just barely recovering before the end. My Dead Body immediately feels like it has more space. Joe has a case, and we’re caught up with his present situation–again it”s about a girl. There is clarity reestablished, and Huston takes time doing it in the beginning of the novel. Before the last novel this series was quickly becoming one of those series I look to every year or so for a quick pint, and thus far I’m pleased to say it looks like it’s going to regain that status as I no longer have a dilemma of picking my read for the day that I have been having for a few weeks, going back and forth between stacks.
