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Great Read, 8 Jan 2012
This review is from: And The Street Screamed Blue Murder! (Kindle Edition)
Jason Michel has painted a lurid picture of Paris which is at once totally credible and unbelievably dark. A prostitute's heart has been removed and journalist Alfie Lime has to delve deep into the workings of why it has been nailed next to his bed. Michel writes with a masterful command of descriptive prose, this is a novella rich in blood soaked imagery and surprising takes on the human condition. You will not forget this once you have read it. At times this reminded me of Dylan Thomas in prose crossed with Noir.
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Lynchian Noir., 6 Dec 2011
This review is from: And The Street Screamed Blue Murder! (Kindle Edition)
Hard drinking investigative journalist Alfie Lime wakes up in his Paris apartment soaked in the blood of the prostitute whose corpse lays next to him. Whose heart has been ripped from her body.Who heart has been placed on a black cloth, on the sideboard, with a nail hammered through it. So Alfie Lime- a 'man with no strings attached'- gets out as quickly as he can, goes under the RADAR, and investigates the murder. AND THE STREET SCREAMED BLUE MURDER! is a cracking novella. It is hellof a yarn stuffed with rich and vivid characters, such as a man known as Elvis, Bamboozle- Lime's fellow hack and booze-hound- and the streets of Paris itself, including the richly described Rue De La Mort. But it's not just the story and the characters that make AND THE STREET SCREAMED BLUE MURDER! a classy piece of surrealistic noir worthy of David Lynch at his 'peak'. It's the writing, the images.The atmosphere. The lines and lines of wonderful descriptions. With AND THE STREET SCREAMED BLUE MURDER! Jason Michel has come up with something special. Groundbreaking, intoxicating, fun.
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Absolutely Bloody Marvellous, 7 Feb 2012
This review is from: And The Street Screamed Blue Murder! (Kindle Edition)
Having read And The Street Screamed Blue Murder I feel a bit weird. Stranger than normal. And I'm not referring to odd as in talking to the cat odd. You see, Jason Michel's novella has dug so far into my brain that I am somehow seeing things differently. Not sure how he's done that, but he has. It could be the fact that he writes like a bloodied, beautiful angel; that his prose is to die for; that the characters and settings are so very vivid that you can almost reach through your reading device and touch them, smell them, recoil, rejoice. He has done something absolutely marvellous here, sure there is a crossing of genres, but it is so much more than that. And you know what I really love? I love that he has made Alfie Lime scared, really scared, which after all would be how any of us would feel if we woke up with a dead body and a pinned heart. The supporting cast are just as well written, but I'm not going to say any more because you have to go and read this yourself. Bloody brilliant read - now, more, please?
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