[books 2013] Voltaire's book
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inulro70. Call of the Jersey Devil by Aurelio Voltaire
Yes, *that* Voltaire, the musician.
Four teenage goths and a washed-up goth singer from the 90s are lured out to a "major goth music festival" in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. But it's all a sham, and only coincidentally the gates to hell have opened and all manner of badness is spilling out.
The first 1/3 is funny as all hell. I'm pretty sure that the ineptitude of the bogus festival promoter is all stuff that's happened to Voltaire at some point.
While the story hangs together well and is well paced and thought through, I found myself losing interest as it went on, and the end (punch line) was straight from any number of Voltaire's songs.
Kind of disappointing but mainly because I'm a big fan of Voltaire's and I expected a lot.
Yes, *that* Voltaire, the musician.
Four teenage goths and a washed-up goth singer from the 90s are lured out to a "major goth music festival" in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. But it's all a sham, and only coincidentally the gates to hell have opened and all manner of badness is spilling out.
The first 1/3 is funny as all hell. I'm pretty sure that the ineptitude of the bogus festival promoter is all stuff that's happened to Voltaire at some point.
While the story hangs together well and is well paced and thought through, I found myself losing interest as it went on, and the end (punch line) was straight from any number of Voltaire's songs.
Kind of disappointing but mainly because I'm a big fan of Voltaire's and I expected a lot.
