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Half the Blood of Brooklyn (Joe Pitt #3)
“One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.”
–Stephen King
“Hard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban souls– you’re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.”
–Fangoria, on Already Dead
There’s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattan’s Vampyre Clans...more
–Stephen King
“Hard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban souls– you’re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.”
–Fangoria, on Already Dead
There’s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattan’s Vampyre Clans...more
Paperback, 223 pages
Published
December 26th 2007
by Del Rey
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Joshua
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Recommends it for:
Urban fantasy lovers who want something less pretty
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Simply flat-out balls-out fun!!
Book 3 in Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt universe. Huston does a nice job filling in people who haven't read the previous two books on his world. Does it help to have read the first two books? Sure, but it also isn't entirely necessary.
Things get kicked up a notch in this volume. Joe Pitt finally starts to stray outside of Manhattan and hit up another NY borough, Brooklyn. There he meets Jewish vampires, coney island freak shows, and biblical bre...more
Book 3 in Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt universe. Huston does a nice job filling in people who haven't read the previous two books on his world. Does it help to have read the first two books? Sure, but it also isn't entirely necessary.
Things get kicked up a notch in this volume. Joe Pitt finally starts to stray outside of Manhattan and hit up another NY borough, Brooklyn. There he meets Jewish vampires, coney island freak shows, and biblical bre...more
This was the first book in the Joe Pitt series that I read instead of listening to the audiobook. It was a much more difficult read than listen because of the “voice” in the book. Joe Pitt & other characters in the book speak in a manner that is fairly foreign to me and it takes me a minute to decipher it when I read it. Listening to it was much simpler for me.
I continue to enjoy the story of Joe and his miss-adventures. I like the turn with Evie and am looking forward to reading...more
I continue to enjoy the story of Joe and his miss-adventures. I like the turn with Evie and am looking forward to reading...more
I had almost forgotten how good, ice cool the lean noir prose style of Huston was. It is fun to read on it own, makes you forget at times you are reading vampire urban fantasy.
Funny enough Joe Pitt is one of the best noir characters i have read, he is mean,nasty and ruthless. Huston doesnt make him heroic and lame, he is very human in how un-heroic he is. Much more interesting than Hank Thompson i read about in Huston noir series without supernatural element.
I thought t...more
Funny enough Joe Pitt is one of the best noir characters i have read, he is mean,nasty and ruthless. Huston doesnt make him heroic and lame, he is very human in how un-heroic he is. Much more interesting than Hank Thompson i read about in Huston noir series without supernatural element.
I thought t...more
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Well, kids, the gloves are off. Sure, ALREADY DEAD and NO DOMINION were pretty tough books - lots of heartless jockeying for power, lots of bones breaking, a few corpses at the end of it all - but by the end of HALF THE BLOOD IN BROOKLYN those were the good old days.
First of all, Joe's taken a job with the Society. It's the safe way to go, but Joe just isn't cut out for that kind of teamwork. His pride has suffered - and so have his morals. He's back to being a hired gun, and for the ...more
First of all, Joe's taken a job with the Society. It's the safe way to go, but Joe just isn't cut out for that kind of teamwork. His pride has suffered - and so have his morals. He's back to being a hired gun, and for the ...more
Third in the Joe Pitt urban fantasy set in contemporary New York City.
The Story
Joe's been cruising. Doing the security gig for Terry. Taking down the competition. Then, I dunno, Terry gets ambitious, sees war coming and wants alliances. Ya can't trust Terry. He'll use up anyone to further his aims. Don't let his laid-back hippie style fool ya.
Terry wants backup and he's not willing for a potential ally to cross over to the Coalition but the real story starts when he send...more
The Story
Joe's been cruising. Doing the security gig for Terry. Taking down the competition. Then, I dunno, Terry gets ambitious, sees war coming and wants alliances. Ya can't trust Terry. He'll use up anyone to further his aims. Don't let his laid-back hippie style fool ya.
Terry wants backup and he's not willing for a potential ally to cross over to the Coalition but the real story starts when he send...more
I must be on a theme with my book choices lately.
This book completely changes the landscape so carefully established in the first 2 books of this series. Status Quo? What's that? I love it when authors aren't afraid to change and alter their settings. Too many find something that works and then milk it until it hasn't worked for far too long. Charlie Huston doesn't have that problem. This one changed all the rules.
WARNING SPOILERS:
Joe Pitt must go to Brookly...more
This book completely changes the landscape so carefully established in the first 2 books of this series. Status Quo? What's that? I love it when authors aren't afraid to change and alter their settings. Too many find something that works and then milk it until it hasn't worked for far too long. Charlie Huston doesn't have that problem. This one changed all the rules.
WARNING SPOILERS:
Joe Pitt must go to Brookly...more
I'm continuing to thrill at the gory noir splendor of the Joe Pitt series. This time out, vampire Joe's focused on finding a solution to the worsening AIDS sickness of human girlfriend Evie. He could turn her into a vamp and save her, but there's a fifty percent chance the attempt will kill her and doing so will result in a death sentence from his Society employers. When Joe realizes that Enclave head Daniel can tell whether or not Evie will survive the change, he becomes fixated on bringing Evi...more
The long sequence that takes up most of the second half of this book (from when the Chosen attack Joe and Stretch in the car until Lydia's bulls take Joe after he crawls out of the sewer) might just be the most brilliant, intense sequence I've ever read in any kind of pulp novel. And that's only partly because for most of it I know what Joe still has to do, even when the novel doesn't mention it for a while. The plotting, the language, the context... all perfect. It reminded me in turn of Ennis ...more
Book 3 in the Joe Pitt series kicks it up another notch. Joe finds himself having to align with a clan after what happened in the second book. This new alignment helps Joe with money, blood and to be able to help his girlfriend in the type of way he couldn't normally.
Things get interesting when the clans in New York start to look towards the clans in Brooklyn. Joe is sent on a meet with a clan in Brooklyn and all hell breaks loose. He is thrown into another clans issues that he has n...more
Things get interesting when the clans in New York start to look towards the clans in Brooklyn. Joe is sent on a meet with a clan in Brooklyn and all hell breaks loose. He is thrown into another clans issues that he has n...more
I'm still having fun with it. Joe Pitt is getting on my nerves because he just can't shut his mouth! He is the eternal tough guy with the wise cracks and snide one liners! He is forever getting his head handed to him ...knocked out...tied up.. Shot... Stabbed... Well you name a brutal act it happens to him and he still never learns to shut his trap!
But that is part of his "charm" if you can call it that! Brooklyn took the Vampyre into a whole new world! Being a native New Yorker ...more
But that is part of his "charm" if you can call it that! Brooklyn took the Vampyre into a whole new world! Being a native New Yorker ...more
This is modern New York where vampires come out at night. They are like you and me but infected with a virus that feeds off of blood and makes it host super strong and fast healing. You've got different clans in different neighborhoods and your hero, who doesn't want to belong to any of them. Because our hero is more a man of action than diplomacy, he's currently head of security for the Society and tasked with finding out why all of sudden vampires from Brooklyn are appearing in Manhattan. ...more
Third book in the 5-book Joe Pitt series. It's been a few years since I read the previous book, so I needed a little time to recall the world setup. The story starts out with a bang and doesn't let up until the end.
Generally, I found the whole Brooklyn component (from the Conney Island Freaks to the Jewish Vampyre sect) to be a little jarring. I didn't buy either group as real characters any more then I bought the The Docks vampyre crew pulled right out of 'On the Waterfront'. I kno...more
Generally, I found the whole Brooklyn component (from the Conney Island Freaks to the Jewish Vampyre sect) to be a little jarring. I didn't buy either group as real characters any more then I bought the The Docks vampyre crew pulled right out of 'On the Waterfront'. I kno...more
Riley
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Recommends it for:
People who like a good action vampire book
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My Pops
Charlie Huston writes an easy to read yet enticing book using a common theme of a Vampire virus. It's a dark book full of violence and backstabbing, but it's mostly only vampires that die. This book kept me up til 3:30 to finish it.
Wretched phony noir/vampire thing I bought on a whim. Depressing how this gets good comments from Stephen King and wins awards. All the characters talk in hard-guy movie cliches, heads come off casually. None of the sense of danger and doom of noir, none of the moodiness of good horror fiction. The hero talks tough and wears a leather jacket, knows guys who ride motorcycles, talks about Van Helsings, and in the first scene his boss is called a gay slur, so right away you know who's Good and ...more
Charlie Huston’s alternate Manhattan – divided and ruled by vampire clans who as of now are at an uneasy détente – is a harsh, dark wind sweeping away the unnecessary melodrama of the vampire romances infesting the horror shelves, advocating a splattery, spare, noir new wave.
This may be the third of a series, but HALF THE BLOOD OF BROOKLYN is no throwaway sequel. Huston obviously hates his characters’ guts, because he put them through every sort of wringer – but an actual, real wringer...more
This may be the third of a series, but HALF THE BLOOD OF BROOKLYN is no throwaway sequel. Huston obviously hates his characters’ guts, because he put them through every sort of wringer – but an actual, real wringer...more
Stephanie
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I love this series! This time Joe is sent over the river to visit other clans and try to recruit them into the Society. He and Lydia, one of the Society higher-ups, are on a mission to recruit a clan calling themselves The Freaks. They arrive at their destination, a lonely stretch of Coney Island, to come upon a circus tent with the freakiest of freak shows in progress. Turns out, these are the Freaks and they are truly freaky. After the show Joe and Lydia try to meet with the "ring master"...more
Do I need to go into Charlie Huston’s brutal, compelling, post-noir world of fiction again? Probably not. This is the seventh book of his I’ve read, and the seventh that I’ve reviewed here. Regardless, I shouldn’t gloss over the most important point whenever I talk about his novels: Don’t read them if you’re squeamish. The graphic violence is one thing, but the cruelty is another. I think a lot of people would be put off by the terrible, awful things that happen to people for (sometimes) no...more
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Comparisons and superlatives be damned; there simply isn't a more talented writer of American fiction today than the hip, irreverent, and ever-so-clever Charlie Huston. This guy could write the recipe for a tuna casserole and make it a page-turner.
Always one to shun convention and propriety, Huston rips another scorcher free of distracting quotation marks or chapters. Back is vampyre leg-breaker Joe Pitt in this third installment of Huston's nightmare fantasy of the undead of Manhat...more
Always one to shun convention and propriety, Huston rips another scorcher free of distracting quotation marks or chapters. Back is vampyre leg-breaker Joe Pitt in this third installment of Huston's nightmare fantasy of the undead of Manhat...more
#3 Joe Pitt paranormal noir mystery. Joe is a vampire, infected with the Vyrus, and now is the head of security for one of the vampire gangs that control New York. Gone is his carefree life as a Rogue, answering only to himself--but also gone is the constant scrabbling for a living, for having a decent supply of blood. Terry, his boss and the head of the Society clan, is trying to keep the balance between the clans (and maybe expand his membership a bit) and asks Joe to protect Lydia (his assist...more
As if dancing between the Manhattan Vampyre Clans wasn't dangerous enough, Joe has to head over to Brooklyn and spill some blood, half of it at least. Alright, so he didn't really have a choice in the matter, seeing as how he is on the Society's payroll now (more like their umbilical leash), but that won't stop him from making some very nasty people nastily dead.
On this third blood spree with Mr. Pitt we get a look at the wilds of unorganized Vyral Brooklyn, except, Joe finds a little too...more
On this third blood spree with Mr. Pitt we get a look at the wilds of unorganized Vyral Brooklyn, except, Joe finds a little too...more
Nearly five stars. From about page 50 on, this book reads like the vampire detective version of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - this is a good thing - an intense, visceral mix of action and horror that doesn't let up until protagonist has burned pretty much every bridge he has. Author Charlie Huston is building up to one intense - and ultimately doomed - finale in the tragic story that is the love of Joe Pitt and Evie, and isn't that what all good noir is about, in the end?
Part three of the vampyre series. Action takes off with Joe as head of security for the society. Color me surprised when the Count shows up as Daniel dies. You know in the next series Joe and the Count will go to it with Evie at stake(no pun intended). Still trying the figure out the Wraith's myself and wonder how that will be tied in to the story line. You also know Predo, Sela, Bird and the rest will be involved as well. Perhaps Daniel, Christian will show up too..........
This guy really is one of my favorite authors. he keeps the story moving from beginning to end. You're never sure what to expect from him and he's got characters that are interesting, easy to root for and likable despite all of their flaws.
This book delivers all of that along with a twisted plot where everyone is playing everyone and you're never sure how it's going to turn out except you know it won't be good for Joe. It never is. He's definitely the underdog. Always.
This book delivers all of that along with a twisted plot where everyone is playing everyone and you're never sure how it's going to turn out except you know it won't be good for Joe. It never is. He's definitely the underdog. Always.
So I really liked this - which is hard to find in the third part of a series. Yes, Joe Pitt goes to Brooklyn and its laughably stereotyped but the larger story is getting more fleshed out and Huston brings back some unfinished plot ties from the first book that I was yearning for with the second.
Not fine literature by any means - but quick fun violent read - I know I'll be starting the next book soon.
Not fine literature by any means - but quick fun violent read - I know I'll be starting the next book soon.
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"As always, Huston's formidable writing chops are on full display: his action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Joe Pitt's girlfriend is dying of AIDS. Meanwhile, Terry thinks its more important that he check out what the Freaks from Coney Island want and Joe is soon under attack again.Trouble is he is more worried about Evie and most of his attention is focused on getting back to the hospital to see her and with trying to decide if it will kill Evie if he infects her with the Vyrus.
This third novel in the Joe Pitt series finds him still in the shadows of Manhattan which has been split among various "vampyre" clans. Joe grudgingly works for The Society as head of security and when his boss sends him across the river to Brooklyn to check out some rival clans he knows there will be trouble. And is there ever. Murder, kidnapping, double crosses and treachery are just the start of the blood soaked mayhem. Huston's tough-guy neo noir rewrites the tired vampire legends...more
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