Sandman Slim

mass market paperback, 416 pages

English language

Published by Harper Voyager.

ISBN:
978-0-06-197626-1
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4 stars (2 reviews)

Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero.Life sucks, and then you die. Or, if you're James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles.Now Stark's back, and ready for revenge. And absolution, and maybe even love. But when his first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than you'd expect, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future.Resurrection sucks. Saving the world is worse.Darkly twisted, irreverent, and completely hilarious, Sandman Slim is the breakthrough novel by an acclaimed author.

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Review of 'Sandman Slim' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

This sort of scratched the itch I've had from not having a new [a:Jim Butcher|10746|Jim Butcher|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1400640324p2/10746.jpg] novel about Harry Dresden to read.

An interesting difference from the Dresden novels is that the magical world isn't the fairy realm, but instead is heaven and hell from Christian mythology.

No talking animals, I'm afraid to say, but there is a disembodied head that will probably be entertaining in future novels.

Two things bugged me about this book:

1) The main guy, James "Jimmy" Stark, finds out that people are calling him Sandman Slim about halfway through the book and we never find out why. It seems like it's because someone decided "Sandman Slim" would be a good title for a book.

2) It seems that because Stark aka Sandman Slim has been through a lot, he has to be a jerk to everyone. It got tiresome.



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