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Kill the dead
434 pages
A blood-soaked, neon-drenched joyride through a grimy Los Angeles where the monsters are real and the hero is worse.
What it feels like
Reading this feels like shotgunning a cheap energy drink in the back of a speeding muscle car while the world burns around you. It is a relentless, adrenaline-soaked plunge into the grimiest, most neon-lit corners of Los Angeles, where noir cynicism collides head-on with B-movie splatter. The narrative voice is a masterclass in hardboiled snark, delivering punchy, visceral prose that revels in its own irreverence. Beneath the chaotic surface of undead hordes and demonic politics, there is a surprisingly sharp exploration of what it means to hold onto your humanity when it is so much easier to become a monster. It will absolutely delight readers who crave their urban fantasy fast, filthy, and unapologetically brutal, anchored by an antihero who takes a beating and always hits back harder.
- Mood
- grimy
- chaotic
- adrenaline-fueled
- neon-lit
- Tone
- cynical
- irreverent
- hardboiled
- darkly comedic
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- loss of humanity · burden of choice · monstrousness vs. morality · surviving trauma
- The writing
- Punchy, visceral, and soaked in noir-tinged sarcasm and B-movie swagger.
- The arc
- A descent into cold, detached brutality followed by a desperate, bloody clawing back toward messy humanity.
- Who it's for
- Fans of ultra-violent, snarky urban fantasy who like their antiheroes battered, cynical, and armed to the teeth.
Content notes
- graphic violence
- gore
- profanity
- body horror
- substance abuse
About the book
While acting as a bodyguard for Lucifer and wooing a former French porn star, half-human fallen angel Stark is bitten by one of the many zombies roaming the countryside. This causes his human side to die and turns him into an emotionless killing machine. The condition has a cure-- should he choose to take it.
Description from Open Library.
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