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** warning, this review contains SPOILERS for the last three `Void City' books **

When we left him in Void City, vampire bad-ass Eric had just made a deal with hell to get back the only woman he has ever loved . . . now he's unwittingly King of the city's vamps and tasked with completing a series of torturous hellish missions to keep his lady-love, Marilyn.

If The Plan goes right, Eric might just get everything he has ever wanted - both before and after he turned vampire - but if he fails, everyone he cares about might pay the price.

`Burned' is the fourth book in J.F. Lewis's rollicking urban fantasy `Void City' series.

This is my fourth rodeo with J.F. Lewis, Eric & Co. You'd really think that by now I'd know the name of the game - that `Void City' is a rude & crude series, delighting in gross-out horror and a tantalizingly jerky protagonist. But in his fourth venture, J.F. Lewis sweeps the rug out from under readers and gives his series a revamp (har, har!).

At the end of third book, `Crossed', Eric was offered the impossible . . . having his true love returned to him from the bowels of Hell. Never mind that at the time he was married to his vampire child, Tabitha, or screwing around with her little demoness sister, Rachel. Put aside the fact that Eric learnt not too long ago of Marilyn and Roger's betrayals when the two were alive and human. Eric was offered the one thing in life he has ever cared about - returned to him, immortal and young again - and that was one temptation he refused to pass up. So he made an open-ended deal with Hell, agreed to complete some Demon's ridiculous mission objectives, all in the name of love.

Thus, when `Burned' begins Marilyn is back - no longer the cantankerous old lady chain-smoker of first book `Staked' (well, still a chain-smoker) but this time immortal and impenetrable (even by Eric himself, no matter how much he moons after her). Marilyn is like Joan Harris in `Mad Men', all red hair, curves and wicked smoulder - with a braying laugh and endless reams of guilt for the tasks Eric is having to accomplish, to earn her back from Hell. With Marilyn's addition to the `Void City' cast, the entire series has undergone a total game-changer.

From the start of `Void City', Eric has never pretended to be anything other than a stone-cold killer. He makes no apologies or excuses for his murderous streak - except to say, `I'm a vampire. Deal with it.' He is as ruthless with his human dinners as he is with his lady loves - the various women who have come in and out of his life, tepid imitations of his one true love, Marilyn. Even when he married Tabitha he was screwing her sister on the side - and in his wedding vows promised to cheat on her and be an all-round terrible husband. The only woman in Eric's life of late, who he hasn't royally screwed over, is his adopted vampire child, Greta. But, with Marilyn entering the scene as a new main character in `Burned', it seems that Eric's stead-fast stance of morally ambiguous anti-hero revelry is being flipped on its axis, and all in the name of true love. . .

That's not to say that Eric and Marilyn don't have `issues'. She's uneasy with the Hell tasks he is carrying out in her name, and she flat refuses to start anything up with him. But Eric lives in hope, and it's a different (dare I say, crushing?) side of Eric that we read in `Burned'.

Of course, amidst all this talk of love and glimmering redemption, there is still plenty of ass-kicking. Void City's police force needs a spring clean, and as Eric carries out his missions from Hell there are enough limbs, blood and weregeckos to go round.

But `Burned' does feel like a bit of a rebirth for `Void City'. New characters are entering the scene, while a few old favourites are being slowly pushed out. As well as Marilyn, a new vampire cousin of Eric's joins the cast of quirks. Evelyn is a vampire with a detachable head, who has a vendetta against Eric, but unwittingly becomes Greta's sheriff side-kick. Greta and Evelyn sometimes steal the show in `Burned' - their repartee is often garish and gruesome mixed with random hilarity, and some of their scenes are Tarantino-esque (picture the sedate `Royale with Cheese' scene in `Pulp Fiction', right before a bloody shoot-out). Greta and Evelyn have great chemistry, and while their scenes showed a whole new level of craziness to the already mad-as-a-hatter Greta, I also laughed the hardest with these two.

Like I said, these new characters are wonderful additions to the `Void City' crew, but I did feel a slight twinge of disappointment that two old favourites seem to be getting shuffled out. Rachel and Tabitha - the disastrous sister pairing are actually two of my favourite characters. Rachel, because I love to hate her and Tabitha because I've enjoyed my frustrations with her. In `Burned' both of these girls have much more diminutive roles than in the last three books, and it's a bit of a shame. Rachel, I can understand had to have a slightly less demanding role since her nefarious plans were revealed in `Crossed'. But Tabitha is being kicked aside as Eric faces up to his affections for Marilyn. In `Burned' he urges Tabitha to forget about him, move on and do something with her life. And that's a great bit of advice for Tabitha - because as he (and readers) knows, Tabitha is a lot smarter and funnier than anyone gives her credit for. And for that reason I do hope that her smaller role in `Burned' is not an indication of her being slowly clapped off the `Void City' stage. I still think she has a lot to offer - and some of my favourite scenes in the book were between all the women; when Evelyn, Greta and Tabitha had a heart-to-heart, and even more when Tabitha and Marilyn nutted out some pressing questions. Brilliant!

`Burned' is a game-changer of a book. Just when I thought I had Eric and all his bad-assery all mapped out, J.F. Lewis goes and reveals new facets to Eric's soul, and shines a burning glimmer of hope on his redemptive path. Marilyn's addition to the cast has spun the `Void City' series into a whole new stratosphere of awesome, and not since Starsky & Hutch has there been such a good cop pairing as in Greta and LEGO-head Evelyn. I didn't think it was possible, but with `Burned' I have fallen a little bit more in love with J.F. Lewis's `Void City' series. Now gimme, gimme, gimme the fifth book!


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Burned A Void City Novel J F Lewis 9781451651867 Books Reviews

I love this series - WHERE'S THE NEXT BOOK???
This series just gets better and better with each book. The snarky irreverence and gleefully gory violence are turned up to eleven. The characters are even more sympathetically twisted than ever. I literally laughed out loud over and over again. Burned is quoteably funny and if the last chapter is any indication of what's in store for the future I want to buy my ticket right now.
Raucous and hilarious, don't trifle with Eric! You will answer to his daughter, the insane new sheriff in town! I love Void City.
I was truely looking forward to finishing this series. This book didn't come close to what it could have been. Lewis does a great with job character development but this book felt like a scrap book of characters. The thread of a story disappeared and what was left was a tortuous snapshot of the characters. It was as if a radio was playing four different talk shows at once. I pushed myself to finish because I kept thinking it would get better and of course it didn't. Save yourself and don't even start this book.
Today's date is 10/13/13. I came back and edited my previous comment in hopes of you reading this one. PLEASE, I BEG YOU (I've never begged for anything before) PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER VOID CITY NOVEL! PLEASE! I CAN 'T FIND ANOTHER WRITTER LIKE YOU. ESPECIALLY ONE WITH YOUR HUMOR! SERIOUSLY, OUR WORLD HAS MAJOR PROBLEMS. MORE NOW THAN EVER I NEED TO READ A VOID CITY BOOK LIKE SOME DRUGGIE WOULD NEED A FIX. PLEASE END THIS INSANITY ( IF ONLY FOR A SHORT WHILE) AND PUBLISH ANOTHER VOID CITY BOOK. Please. With deep felt affection, Kimber Woodward In Clovis, CA. * A TRUE FAN OF YOUR WORK. ; ) *
I loved this entire series. What's not to love? Uber Vamp, vamps, werewolves, Uber Werewolf, witches, demons and everything that goes bump in the night. This series has something for everyone. I am looking forward to reading more. There is more coming isn't there? Please tell me there is more coming!!!! Buy thise entire series and read it in order. You'll be glad you did!
If you've been reading the Void City novels, then surely your first reaction to finding out Eric Courtney, Void City's baddest vampire, has a Big Plan will be, "Uh oh." Eric + Plan = Worst Idea Ever. (If you haven't been reading the Void City novels, then shoo, run over and grab them, and grab this one, then have yourself a reading marathon--oxygen on standby for when you've laughed yourself silly)

No spoilers, so let's just say that if you thought Eric's women problems all came home to roost in the last book, you thought wrong. They've gotten much, much worse. Especially when the current "woman" is a demon who thinks she can control Eric. Uh, that's never a good assumption.

Greta, Eric's monstrous daughter, comes into her own, too. She's got a sheriff's star and an attitude--SHE'S THE BOSS, APPLESAUCE (I want a t-shirt that says that). There's plenty of Fang the murderous Mustang, too, and a cast of crazies to satisfy every taste.

A final note to the publisher Thank you. I bought the version. The formatting was outstanding with almost none of the little irritants and sloppy spacing mistakes I see in so many ebooks from the big publishing houses. It looked great on the screen and this reader appreciates it.
** warning, this review contains SPOILERS for the last three `Void City' books **

When we left him in Void City, vampire bad-ass Eric had just made a deal with hell to get back the only woman he has ever loved . . . now he's unwittingly King of the city's vamps and tasked with completing a series of torturous hellish missions to keep his lady-love, Marilyn.

If The Plan goes right, Eric might just get everything he has ever wanted - both before and after he turned vampire - but if he fails, everyone he cares about might pay the price.

`Burned' is the fourth book in J.F. Lewis's rollicking urban fantasy `Void City' series.

This is my fourth rodeo with J.F. Lewis, Eric & Co. You'd really think that by now I'd know the name of the game - that `Void City' is a rude & crude series, delighting in gross-out horror and a tantalizingly jerky protagonist. But in his fourth venture, J.F. Lewis sweeps the rug out from under readers and gives his series a revamp (har, har!).

At the end of third book, `Crossed', Eric was offered the impossible . . . having his true love returned to him from the bowels of Hell. Never mind that at the time he was married to his vampire child, Tabitha, or screwing around with her little demoness sister, Rachel. Put aside the fact that Eric learnt not too long ago of Marilyn and Roger's betrayals when the two were alive and human. Eric was offered the one thing in life he has ever cared about - returned to him, immortal and young again - and that was one temptation he refused to pass up. So he made an open-ended deal with Hell, agreed to complete some Demon's ridiculous mission objectives, all in the name of love.

Thus, when `Burned' begins Marilyn is back - no longer the cantankerous old lady chain-smoker of first book `Staked' (well, still a chain-smoker) but this time immortal and impenetrable (even by Eric himself, no matter how much he moons after her). Marilyn is like Joan Harris in `Mad Men', all red hair, curves and wicked smoulder - with a braying laugh and endless reams of guilt for the tasks Eric is having to accomplish, to earn her back from Hell. With Marilyn's addition to the `Void City' cast, the entire series has undergone a total game-changer.

From the start of `Void City', Eric has never pretended to be anything other than a stone-cold killer. He makes no apologies or excuses for his murderous streak - except to say, `I'm a vampire. Deal with it.' He is as ruthless with his human dinners as he is with his lady loves - the various women who have come in and out of his life, tepid imitations of his one true love, Marilyn. Even when he married Tabitha he was screwing her sister on the side - and in his wedding vows promised to cheat on her and be an all-round terrible husband. The only woman in Eric's life of late, who he hasn't royally screwed over, is his adopted vampire child, Greta. But, with Marilyn entering the scene as a new main character in `Burned', it seems that Eric's stead-fast stance of morally ambiguous anti-hero revelry is being flipped on its axis, and all in the name of true love. . .

That's not to say that Eric and Marilyn don't have `issues'. She's uneasy with the Hell tasks he is carrying out in her name, and she flat refuses to start anything up with him. But Eric lives in hope, and it's a different (dare I say, crushing?) side of Eric that we read in `Burned'.

Of course, amidst all this talk of love and glimmering redemption, there is still plenty of ass-kicking. Void City's police force needs a spring clean, and as Eric carries out his missions from Hell there are enough limbs, blood and weregeckos to go round.

But `Burned' does feel like a bit of a rebirth for `Void City'. New characters are entering the scene, while a few old favourites are being slowly pushed out. As well as Marilyn, a new vampire cousin of Eric's joins the cast of quirks. Evelyn is a vampire with a detachable head, who has a vendetta against Eric, but unwittingly becomes Greta's sheriff side-kick. Greta and Evelyn sometimes steal the show in `Burned' - their repartee is often garish and gruesome mixed with random hilarity, and some of their scenes are Tarantino-esque (picture the sedate `Royale with Cheese' scene in `Pulp Fiction', right before a bloody shoot-out). Greta and Evelyn have great chemistry, and while their scenes showed a whole new level of craziness to the already mad-as-a-hatter Greta, I also laughed the hardest with these two.

Like I said, these new characters are wonderful additions to the `Void City' crew, but I did feel a slight twinge of disappointment that two old favourites seem to be getting shuffled out. Rachel and Tabitha - the disastrous sister pairing are actually two of my favourite characters. Rachel, because I love to hate her and Tabitha because I've enjoyed my frustrations with her. In `Burned' both of these girls have much more diminutive roles than in the last three books, and it's a bit of a shame. Rachel, I can understand had to have a slightly less demanding role since her nefarious plans were revealed in `Crossed'. But Tabitha is being kicked aside as Eric faces up to his affections for Marilyn. In `Burned' he urges Tabitha to forget about him, move on and do something with her life. And that's a great bit of advice for Tabitha - because as he (and readers) knows, Tabitha is a lot smarter and funnier than anyone gives her credit for. And for that reason I do hope that her smaller role in `Burned' is not an indication of her being slowly clapped off the `Void City' stage. I still think she has a lot to offer - and some of my favourite scenes in the book were between all the women; when Evelyn, Greta and Tabitha had a heart-to-heart, and even more when Tabitha and Marilyn nutted out some pressing questions. Brilliant!

`Burned' is a game-changer of a book. Just when I thought I had Eric and all his bad-assery all mapped out, J.F. Lewis goes and reveals new facets to Eric's soul, and shines a burning glimmer of hope on his redemptive path. Marilyn's addition to the cast has spun the `Void City' series into a whole new stratosphere of awesome, and not since Starsky & Hutch has there been such a good cop pairing as in Greta and LEGO-head Evelyn. I didn't think it was possible, but with `Burned' I have fallen a little bit more in love with J.F. Lewis's `Void City' series. Now gimme, gimme, gimme the fifth book!