Clark Casey

Damnation is somewhere between heaven and hell, the place where you end up if you don't make it to heaven. If you die while you're there (even though you are already dead?) it seems to put you on the fast track to hell. If you can behave yourself and not kill anyone, rumor has it that you might be allowed into heaven after a 1 year stay. So far nobody knows. Oddly enough there is no shortage of bacon here and although you can't starve to death when you are already dead, the townsfolk do seem to enjoy being able to eat piles of bacon strips. Women are few and far between in Damnation, and on the rare occasion one shows up they tend not to last too long. When a pregnant dead woman lands herself in Damnation somehow still carrying a live unborn baby it's an unusual situation even for this odd town.
Although I do enjoy comedy/horror this one just wasn't my cup of tea. I think fans of fantasy may enjoy it more than horror fans.

I received an advance copy for review… (mehr)

The sudden cliffhanger that ended the first book of the Damnation series all but forced me to read this sequel as well. I just had to know if and how the residents of Damnation would survive the threatening attack by the Indians (not to mention the nearby pack of werewolves).

Like with the first book, the beginning was very slow and I almost lost interest in reading any further. While new characters entered Damnation, others left for good, and all of them were memorized with short articles in the Crapper, Damnation's one and only newspaper. There it was again, the familiar repetitiveness I already knew from the first book.

But once the action started I, again, was glad I kept on reading and didn't give up too early. This time, Damnation is attacked by numerous hordes of Indians living just outside the city limits, and it doesn't look too good for our dead cowboys...

Also, we learn more about Luther, the second vampire in town, and more light is shed on baby Martin, the only living thing here.

A solid sequel, though I was disappointed there was no preview of a third book yet - I hope there will be one soon.

(Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)… (mehr)

Flashing its trashy cover at me, the book immediately caught my eye. Sadly, 10% into the book I had lost all interest, but I kept on reading, wanting to give it a chance, and eventually it did get better.

The entertaining western-horror crossbreed provided an original plot and a kaleidoscope of characters, who by telling their life story and the way they died each added a curious little anecdote to the whole thing. While the action did get repetitive at times, you have to consider that there really is not much to do in Damnation besides drinking, gambling and gunfighting. So each change in the routine was very welcome by the dead residents of Damnation - and me too, of course. While I was a bit miffed about the sudden cliffhanger ending, I was consoled by the fact that a sequel is already on its way and the attached preview into it.

(Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)… (mehr)