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Decent collection of up-and-coming noir fiction. A friend of mine is published in here and I went to a reading of several of the authors. It has some saggy stories but overall it's an excellent light read.
Any anthology is hot and cold. Blood, Guts, and Whiskey falls into inconsistency, as can happen in a collection with so many stories. The anthology focuses mostly on the crime fiction subgenre. Some stories in this collection are really good, but here are others that don't work for me. The conclusions jump out of nowhere, or the plot doesn't seem anchored. Neo-noir is so much about atmosphere, but at the same time storytelling technique still applies. The lesser of the stories in this anthology
Another good collection of stories from Todd Robinson and Thuglit. Not as good as Hardcore Hardboiled, but still good and still worth the time for fans of the genre. Now you go read it while I dream about one day being published in it.
First collection of neo-noir I have read. It was good, I look forward to more, a brilliant book to relax to.
One of the best comps of the year. Violent, funny, and ruthless. Short excellent fiction. Recommended for lovers of short, gritty, wild stuff. I couldn't get enough.
it is absolutely massive, standing tall at 24 (count them) stories, it is three times the length of most of the anthologies out there. You can keep this book open and not bother grabbing another one for quite a while. Indeed, with this many stories (337 pages in length for the actual physical book edition), it is simply such a huge dose of hardboiled nastiness that may take days or even weeks to recover from.Many of the stories are by well-known names in modern crime fiction, including Jordan Ha...
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Read this collection just because there was a Jordan Harper story in it. Unfortunately I’d already read it and none of the others were even close to as good.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you are a fan of modern noir this book is a must. This is a well balanced, fast paced collection. There is enough variance in the styles of the individual stories to show a wide range of noir.