Las Vegas is the perfect location for a vampire story with its mixture of glitter, lies, sex, and broken promises. I'm surprised more stories don't take place there with the undead. I also like how Sally's story starts off fairly banal. She's just yet another girl in the Big City mislead by promises she might do something successful albeit not quite as trite as if she'd been in Los Angeles. The characters of Marlene and Marc are also excellent antagonists as their connection to Sally makes her story more personal. The book benefits from the fact Sally is significantly more mature than Bill both in attitude as well as storytelling context.
While Bill mostly retains his humanity despite the fact he's still running a mass murdering coven mostly by ignoring what's going on , Sally is a fully embraced fiend who we see walk the highway to hell up to the point she finally does the unforgivable or so she thinks. You even cheer her on when she confronts her sister who assumes, automatically, Sally is a prostitute. The relationships are also surprisingly complex. Sally loves Marc, the nice and sweet boy she dated in life but is attracted to Jeff the vampire to the point she's willing to cheat on her boyfriend unaware the consequences will be horrific.
Marc's anger warps him and his present self ruins the cherished memory which Sally has. Colin believes Sally could be something great as a young woman but dismisses her once she becomes a stripper to survive in Las Vegas. Marlene is myopic about her rulership of Las Vegas' vampires, content to just run her club to the exclusive of all else. In conclusion, this is a really good book and I think not only will fans of the Tome of Bill enjoy it but that people who have no experience with the series will enjoy it. There's a decided lack of the usual offensive content accurate to pre-millennial nerds or not and Sally has more of a story arc.
This reads like an excellent vampire novel in general rather than just a funny vampire novel satire.
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She's just yet another girl in the Big City mislead by promises she might do something successful albeit not quite as trite as if she'd been in Los Angeles. The characters of Marlene and Marc are also excellent antagonists as their connection to Sally makes her story more personal. The book benefits from the fact Sally is significantly more mature than Bill both in attitude as well as storytelling context. While Bill mostly retains his humanity despite the fact he's still running a mass murdering coven mostly by ignoring what's going on , Sally is a fully embraced fiend who we see walk the highway to hell up to the point she finally does the unforgivable or so she thinks.
You even cheer her on when she confronts her sister who assumes, automatically, Sally is a prostitute. The relationships are also surprisingly complex. Sally loves Marc, the nice and sweet boy she dated in life but is attracted to Jeff the vampire to the point she's willing to cheat on her boyfriend unaware the consequences will be horrific.
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Marc's anger warps him and his present self ruins the cherished memory which Sally has. I'm outnumbered and outgunned, but they've got another thing coming if they think I'm outclassed. Unspeakable horrors, both old and new, await me in the City of Sin, but in the end they're all going to learn one very painful lesson: Payback is a Bitch. This book is important if you continue onto Goddamned Freaky Monsters. But I would recommend reading it, unless you can get past the Game Show Host voices the narrator uses for most of the characters. It was unbearable to me, but it is just my opinion.
Though I was waiting for her to say, "And what's behind door number two? Well, Drew, it's a New Car! This book is a novella in place before the next book in the series which is out in print but not audible as of the writing of this review. The book is the usual fast paced, humor filled stories I have come to expect from this series. If you like the previous books you will more than likely enjoy this one. I think some of the negatives written about this series are more due to the lack of most of the main characters from the previous stories.
I , for one, enjoyed learning about Sally's backstory and finding out what makes her tick.
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She had a sassy, smart-alec sense of humor, but it was different enough that I didn't confuse her viewpoint with that of Bill in the previous novels. I was kind of surprised by the low rating of the narrarator by other reviewers. I thought she did an excellent job capturing the attitude and cattiness of the main character. The only reason I rated the narraration so low was the quality of the editing and recording was one of the worst I have heard in many moons.
You can literally hear multiple cuts when they stopped recording and restarted based on the amount and volume of background noise you hear.
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I could defnitely hear a lot of background noise in the recording such as moving pencils, the air conditioner changing and even some car noises in the background, The background volume also changes a lot during the recording. That definitely brings down my evaluation but not so much that I did not enjoy the book. If you like the series this is a good continuation, but I think you could get by without this one and just get the next book in the series if you want to save some money. Still, I liked it, but it is a little pricey for a 6 hour recording.
It was very nice to have a story from Sally's point of view and to learn of her origins and get hopeful hints of her future. The plot of that story, however, felt a bit rushed and haphazard, the dialogue a little stiff in places. It ties in nicely and advances the background plot of the full series to a certain degree, though, and was worth reading for its context within the full Tome of Bill endeavor. The reader has good moments as the voice of Sally, particularly if you consider her origin fully. Her narration and delivery of the voices of other characters, however, was very poor. At times it felt like the story was being read to children.
At other times I felt as if my GPS device was reading a novel to me. Sally is rooted in an older era, so no one should expect her to sound like a strong young woman of the new millennium I was happy to learn that Gualtieri had written a Tome of Bill book from the female perspective, and it was good to finally have some clarity on Sally's backstory. Unfortunately, the narrator for this audiobook nearly ruined it for me. How can I put this? She sounds like she learned English entirely from watching cheesy TV news anchors. Her cadence is frequently awkward, with random pauses Worse, however, is the cheesy, staged, fake tone of her voice like a cheesy anchorwoman.
It's not appropriate to the character, and it's tremendously distracting.
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I can honestly say I will never buy another audiobook that this woman narrates. Much like my Supervillainy Saga books, they're a lot of nerd references with a semi-serious take on the supernatural. Indeed, those are a good reason not to buy them even though I otherwise enjoy the series. It follows the adventures and history of side-character Sally as she goes from a girl with a repressive family background to a troubled Las Vegas stripper to a vampire. It's all set against the backdrop of rescuing the sister-in-law potentially of friendly antagonist Christy from meeting the same fate Sally did as a young woman.
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I really like Sally, much more so than Bill, because she's a more serious character. She's suffered and been transformed by her experiences as a vampire. There's real pathos to her losing her humanity and trying to deal with the fact she's had some of her past morality returned to her. It's also cool to see her relationship with Colin and how much betrayal and hurt there is. Las Vegas is the perfect location for a vampire story with its mixture of glitter, lies, sex, and broken promises. I'm surprised more stories don't take place there with the undead. I also like how Sally's story starts off fairly banal.
She's just yet another girl in the Big City mislead by promises she might do something successful albeit not quite as trite as if she'd been in Los Angeles. The characters of Marlene and Marc are also excellent antagonists as their connection to Sally makes her story more personal.
The book benefits from the fact Sally is significantly more mature than Bill both in attitude as well as storytelling context. While Bill mostly retains his humanity despite the fact he's still running a mass murdering coven mostly by ignoring what's going on , Sally is a fully embraced fiend who we see walk the highway to hell up to the point she finally does the unforgivable or so she thinks.