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| Title | : | Kiss Me, Judas (Phineas Poe #1) |
| Author | : | Will Christopher Baer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 316 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2006 by MacAdam/Cage Publishing (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Noir. Crime. Thriller. Contemporary. Novels |
Will Christopher Baer
Paperback | Pages: 316 pages Rating: 3.73 | 4551 Users | 252 Reviews
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Have you ever loved someone who's mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He takes her back to his room and wakes the next morning in a bathtub full of blood and ice, missing a kidney. Dragging himself from a hospital bed, Phineas discovers he wants to be with Jude like a hunger -- and he wants to find her and kill her. Falling for her is the start of a twisted love story that takes him from the snowy streets of Denver to the high plains of Texas where the boundaries between torturer and victim, killer and accomplice, become nightmarishly distorted.
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| Original Title: | Kiss Me, Judas |
| ISBN: | 1596921862 (ISBN13: 9781596921863) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Phineas Poe #1 |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 4551 Users | 252 ReviewsCrit Of Books Kiss Me, Judas (Phineas Poe #1)
If you want to know what neo-noir is, this is the book to do it. Baer is not only an idol of mine, but an inspiration. This is what got it started. Dark, rich, sexy, powerful, captivating, and visceral.This isn't my usual genre. I would go so far as to say that this genre is one my least favorites. But now I'm convinced that it's because I hadn't read something that caught my attention. This book was... remarkable. It was a mindfuck and I loved every second of it.
Kiss Me Judas had me constantly feeling as though I'd stepped off a mental Tilt-A-Whirl. While it's never confusing, it's often confounding and Baer gives the reader just enough information to keep up with the wild pace. Kiss Me Judas is dark, gritty, endearing, and confusing -- it is the essence of neo-noir.The novel starts with a cliched urban legend -- the protagonist, Phineas Poe, wakes up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidney missing and revenge on his mind. He falls in love with the
Very sharply written. You'll have to search far and wide to find another book that employs so many tasty metaphors. Puzzling why it was marketed with a b-grade title and a b-grade cover.
This is a really good, short book. The characters aren't all that likable. They aren't supposed to be in a work like this. However, they are relatable in their own ways, and Baer treats them with a sense of love. He's the real star here. His prose and his imagery takes center stage in a book that is both visceral and heartbreaking, at times. It's a surreal book about a man who wakes up in a tub missing a kidney. Often, Phineas is left wondering what is real and what is fantasy. Often, we wonder
This one is (as most anyone who's read it seems to concur) "hard to describe." I'd probably propose a new genre for it: "oneiric noir." The moody, poetic writing prose and the frequent breakdown of borders between the real and the dreamed/hallucinated on the part of the feckless narrator are the highlights of a narrative that is not always clear but is always compelling. It's a hard novel to put down, and while the plot is nothing new (pretty standard noir tropes crossed with one of the most
The jumping off point for this novel isn't particularly original. It's something that seems like (or may even be) an urban legend. The main character goes back to his hotel room with a prostitute he's met at a bar and the next morning wakes up in a bathtub full of ice with one less kidney to his name.But I've long been a sucker for this oft-told tale and all of its variations, so I must admit this was a large part of why I picked this thing up. Even still, I was a bit apprehensive. This is
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