Had to read this one after Horns, since I enjoyed Horns so much. This is about Jude, a heavy-metal musician with a penchant for the strange and the creepy. After stumbling across an auction for a ghost for sale, and purchasing said ghost, he is shipped a suit in a heart shaped box, which is all that is advertised with a side order of hatred and cruelty. The ghost turns out to be that of his previous girlfriend's (Florida) dead stepfather, who is determined to kill them both to get revenge for how Jude changed Florida's life, and caused her death.
I didn't like this one as much as I liked Horns. It's still written very well, and the storyline is still kinked and snarled enough that you can't see from the beginning how it will end (but it's not so snarled that it's impossible to keep straight, either), but it's lacking a certain...grab...to it. I liked it, and it's a decent book, but Horns is undeniably my favourite of the two.
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