Brand New Cherry Flavor

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Summary: Not like anything or anyone else
Review: Grimson likes to create a milieu in which there are multiple allusions and injokes; if you don't get them I suppose that after a while you know something's flying past you but you don't know what it is. But if you get the jokes you're presented with a very dense, actionpacked text. He obviously grew up watching bad movies and yet -- his secret weapon -- the pain actually hurts. He makes the incredible credible. Philip K. Dick, Nightmare on Elm Street, James Ellroy, Mary Gaitskill, Irvine Welsh and such off-the-wall influences as Georges Bataille all seem combined in a blender that serves up something entirely unique. Wicked smart.

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Summary: horrible!
Review: This is one of the most bland books I've ever read. Lisa Nova is a spineless moron who wants to get ahead in the film game, does something stupid and gets her butt handed to her, so she decides revenge is the only policy, but she can't do it on her own, even she seems to think she is (that is how deluded she is), but when it gets out of her realm of control, she runs away to her rich Daddy. I do not think men who write in 1st or 3rd person using a female as the protagonist do very convincing jobs of it -- you need to UNDERSTAND your subject matter. He obviously wrote this book just for the sex scenes, and even those are yawn-inducing. This is cliched tripe from Los Angeles and nothing but.

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Summary: Traditional Grimson, Slack Storyline
Review: Unfortunately, when I purchased this book, I was hoping that it would be another "Stainless". In my opinion, that was Grimson's best work ever. Moving on, the story itself was interesting, but tended to be a little lackadaisical and confusing at times. I caught a slight echo of "Stainless" through the characters Freak, Code, and Lisa -- they all seemed the "lost, neurotic, Hollywood" types. Still, the book was fine...as long as one isn't perturbed by weird voodoo rituals.