- Hardcover: 153 pages
- Publisher: Delirium Books; Limited edition (August 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1929653530
- ISBN-13: 978-1929653539
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,155,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Erotic, innovative, astonishing, and original., July 14 2005
By N. Curtis "necropolitan-press.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (Hardcover)
5.5" x 8.5" hardcover, limited numbered edition of 250 copies signed by Thomas. 154 pages.
Back in 1983, horror literature underwent a radical facelift; Stephen King saw the future of the genre, and his name was Clive Barker. In contrast to King's blue-collar, sometimes even pedestrian, mass-market writing, Barker was a breath of fresh air: erotic, innovative, astonishing, original. The same descriptors apply to Jeffrey Thomas.
Thomas' world is populated with sexual predators and fumbling lovers, with normal men who find perverse pleasure in limbless women and naive puppets who enact one of the greatest love stories ever told, with gripping reality and light-hearted fantasy.
Whether you travel through the looking glass to a place where a monstrous version of you is equally bored by his day job or to a future where young girls lust after "grandbabes" ('mature' older stars), the eight stories herein are sure to bring a wicked smile to your face and quickened pace to your heart. From one extreme to the next, Thomas carefully holds your hand as you make the transitions. And you are, as they say, in good hands.
Forget waiting for Barker's next short story collection; Thomas offers you a new book of Blood that is more than capable of filling the void.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
I shouldn't be reading this...but I am., Feb 3 2012
By grimgirl - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (Hardcover)
I finished the book several days ago, while traveling. Comprised of several short stories - each its own - I assume the author has taken great care to walk me through a progression of tales.Go ahead - read them in order - like following a rainbow to an anticipated pot of gold, but it's not really a rainbow - and the "treat" you get at the end is not a pot of gold. This isn't the type of book you recommend casually to your friends. I'm not sure if it's even the type of book (based on the cover art alone) that I wouldn't be at least semi embarrassed to have to explain if someone went scrolling through my kindle bookshelf and saw, but it's there... and I read it, and even re-read some of the stories after I finished it the first time. Would you like it? And if you did, who would you tell?
The underlying masochistic despair, longing, frustration, loneliness and sadness of the characters. Masked - roughly - with the sadistic thrill of blatant sex and deviance. Maybe they are one in the same. You'll be disgusted and excited, embarrassed and curious, and while at times you'll think "I shouldn't be reading this", you'll want to finish the book to see what dark silky sheet you get to peek under as you keep reading.
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