Today’s post is on Hair
Raising by Kevin J Anderson. It is the third in his Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series. It is 302 pages long and is
published by Kensington. The cover has Dan with a client, Rusty, as they walk
through the Unnatural Quarter together with chaos in the background. There is
some mild language, very bad jokes, and some violence in this book. The
intended reader is someone who likes humor and urban fantasy. The story is told from the first person close of the main character. There Be Spoilers
Ahead.
From the back of the book- Ready-To-Were
The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves- and what’s sadder the a chrome-domes lycanthrope? Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues to hunt down the bald facts, things get hairy fast.
Shamble lurches though a loony landscape of voodoo tattoo artists, illicit coctatrice fights, body builders assembling make-your-own-human kits, and perhaps the scariest of all, crazed fans in town for the Worldwide Horror Convention. Yet the reign of hair-raising terror grows longer. If Shamble can’t snip this off at the roots, the whole world could end up howling mad.
The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves- and what’s sadder the a chrome-domes lycanthrope? Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues to hunt down the bald facts, things get hairy fast.
Shamble lurches though a loony landscape of voodoo tattoo artists, illicit coctatrice fights, body builders assembling make-your-own-human kits, and perhaps the scariest of all, crazed fans in town for the Worldwide Horror Convention. Yet the reign of hair-raising terror grows longer. If Shamble can’t snip this off at the roots, the whole world could end up howling mad.
Review- In the third Dan Shamble series we get some
hairy action. Everything from werewolf rumbles to zombie bathhouses in this
novel. The humor is just like in the first two so I was pleased. I like that
Anderson is really getting into world building this volume. We know about how
the world becomes what it is but he added some nice details now. With the
Worldwide Horror Convention in town we get to see some added color, so to
speak. I think that the dialog is sharper in this one than previous and that is
a good thing. More jokes in the ongoing narrative instead of just in the
dialog. I wish we spent more time at the Horror Con but that is the only thing
that I wanted more of. I do enjoy the metaness of Dan Shamble novels being
written in the Dan Shamble world. I like that he has fans of his novels. I get
a kick out of this whole series but I understand that humor is hard to write and when you find
it written well you just cannot miss it. I recommend this series.
I give this book a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for
my review and I bought this book with my own money.
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