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Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son. Vitus is horrified to discover the photo of the couple's missing son is a picture-perfect reproduction of his long dead son. This leads him to question the events of his tormented past; he must face the possibility that the wife and child he believed he murdered ten years ago in a zombie-fugue have somehow survived . . . or is it just wishful thinking designed to pull him into an elaborate trap? Unfolding like a classic film noir mixed with elements of a B-movie, Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell is an imaginative spin on the hard-boiled detective genre and a new twist on the zombie novel. In Vitus Adamson, you will find a protagonist you can care about and invest in as he takes you through his emotional journey of betrayal and quest for redemption. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is a nifty set-up, which initially blends pulp fiction with semi-credible science. It’s snappy; self-aware, full of sassy one-liners and smart asides with a tip of the hat to the usual zombie apocalypse tropes. Then as he starts to search for a missing teenager, the narrative takes a step sideways, leaving behind the referential post-ironic comments and cranking up the suggestions of Unspeakable Awfulness in dark places.
You’re never sure if this is going to gestate into a full-on horror epic, or transform into a spiky expose of the human menace of the military-industrial complex… or just settle for being a story of personal redemption. It veers between pulp hack-n-slash horror and earnest debates on the nature of identity and the disintegration of the self; a mix of B-movie monsters and dime-store psychology. Ambitious, and tricky to pull off.
I hugely enjoyed the notion of the zombie PI and his unique situation. I wasn’t sure that the more extreme elements of the storyline sat comfortably alongside the real-world backdrop. The narrative and tongue-in-cheek dialogue, subtle and savage in the opening chapters, kinda slithered into platitudes in the latter part. Similarly, a steamily raunchy scene involving a plastic sheet and consenting partners, which made zombie sex seem a real possibility, was later replaced by doe-eyed sentimentality.
So ‘Bring Me Flesh’ grabbed me at the get-go but my attention flagged somewhat by the end. I’d probably have enjoyed a less involved investigation, one without so much personal baggage. That said, it’s is easily the most accomplished zombie noir I’ve ever read…
7/10
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