Candy and Cigarettes edition by CS DeWildt Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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"Candy & Cigarettes is noir of the very highest order, a dark and moody cocktail of the bleak and the beautifully damaged."~Chris Leek, Out of the Gutter Online
In the face of revenge, innocence is meaningless.
Death is omnipresent to small-town loner Lloyd Bizbang. Today proves no exception. After being attacked yet again by a pair of sociopaths who have targeted him since childhood, Lloyd stumbles upon a sight he wishes he could unsee in the town junkyard. Now as he just tries to live through another day, the bodies are stacking up in the town of Horton, and Lloyd finds himself connected to each of them via the drug-and-drink-addled, unhinging police chief, yet another person who has an old score to settle with Lloyd. A game of revenge and survival is underway, but will there be a winner at the day’s end?
Candy and Cigarettes edition by CS DeWildt Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
A while back I read a great book by CS DeWildt (Love You to a Pulp)and I loved it so much I thought I would try out one of his earlier novels and I am really glad I made that decision. Candy and Cigarettes is as good as its successor is and I loved everything about it.This offering from DeWildt is a short novella but it packs a punch equal to some longer works of other authors. It centers on Lloyd Bizbang, who has been tormented throughout his life because he was present at his younger sister’s death (and inadvertently contributed to it) and also had a hand in his grandmother’s death. When death follows a young child this closely, a stigma is sure to develop and Llyod has done little in lfe to rid himself of the dark cloud that follows him around.
His main rivals are Terry and Zeke Cutter who are burning a path of criminal destruction through the town and making things appear that Llyod has a hand in the crimes. These two are angry, vengeful brothers who set out to make Llyod’s life a living hell and have succeeded at every turn. Their crimes are becoming more violent and they set themselves onto a path of sure destruction.
The novella also features the Chief of Police who is has found out he is terminally ill and that news has set him on a self-destructive path and he seems set on taking Llyod down with him. His mental instability made the chapters featuring him a blast to read and he adds a good deal of depth to the story.
The book has a lightening paced plot and the characters all have life to them. If I had to pick out the one thing I didn’t like about the book, I would say it was too short! The writing chops that DeWildt has were on full display here and I am glad I devoured this book. If you haven’t sampled this author yet, you need to rectify that immediately.
Highly recommended.
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Candy and Cigarettes edition by CS DeWildt Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Drawing from the rich tradition of rural noir and masters of the genre like Jim Thompson, CW DeWildt's Candy and Cigarettes pulls off a nifty trick extracting a glimmer of hope from the hopeless. You'll have to read it to see what I mean. But in a desolate landscape rife with the undesirable, that Lloyd Bizbang, the most wretched and cursed of the bunch, finds a way to distinguish himself from the pack left me smiling (if in a dark, twisted way). Some folks it seems are cursed from the day they are born; for these we have to temper the expectations for success... What propels this novella (and it does zip along) is DeWildt's effortless storytelling. We get an intimate glimpse into the lives of these oddball characters (The Chief, the rabble-rousing brothers Zeke and Terry, et al.), as the author deftly straddles the line between playful and grave. If you're a fan of Thompson books like The Killer Inside Me and Pop. 1280, pick up Candy and Cigarettes. You'll be glad you did.
If I owned a bookstore, I'd put it in the weird rural noir section. (I don't know if there would be any other books with it.) This is more a serious of perfectly sketched vignettes (rather than a novella) that orbit around the jagged story of Lloyd Bizbang. Dude can't seem to ever catch a break and has become the target of a couple of moronic psychos. But there are so many delightful tangents about life in this swirling-the-drain town. The one that sticks out to me most is about two drug-addled teenagers and one unfortunate convenience store clerk.
Really sharp writing, vivid characters, and that noir sense of decay and guaranteed awfulness. Highly recommended.
C.S. DeWildt has a bead on small details and setting. I had the pleasure of reading DeWildt's gritty short story, "Watch Dog Crew" on Shotgun Honey last November and was impressed with his quick development of character and wonderful (in the darkest sense) use of language. When I saw DeWildt had new novella out, I had to pick it up.
As you can expect from the cover and the blurb, Candy and Cigarettes is a very dark tale. You'll get a good idea of what to expect when - not if - you head over to Shotgun Honey for a 700 word appetizer.
The story centers on Lloyd Bizbang, who, through a series of terrible and unfortunate events, has found himself an outcast in a small town where the inhabitants seem to do everything in their power to keep from moving on with the outside world. The characters in the novel range from ugly to nasty - but grounded and not over the top in any sense. It is difficult to root for any of them. This may drag in a full-length novel, but here it works well, keeping the reader tense and questioning whether or not to sympathize with such depressing situations.
DeWildt's decision to use a close third person from multiple POVs (some chapters only a page or two long) worked well to ramp up the tension and give additional insight to the inhabitants of Horton. I'm not always a fan of using many POVs, but each is distinct and DeWildt does a great job of establishing a lot of character within a little space.
Candy and Cigarettes won't leave you feeling good, but that's the way it should be. It's a depressing look at a town plagued with bullies on the brink of disaster - and I mean that in the best sense. I look forward to DeWildt's next book. This one is definitely worth checking out.
This novella is a quick read that immediately grabs you by the throat, shakes you around, and doesn't let go until it's done. I couldn't put it down. It revolves around a pair of vicious brothers on a crime spree, a drug-addicted cop, and those caught in their wake. One dude, Lloyd Bizbang, takes the brunt of their fallout. As in Love You to a Pulp, DeWildt paints a solid backstory for the beautifully damaged Lloyd. Life has been sticking it to him since he was little, and it's about to get worse. Highly recommended for anybody looking to read something nasty, brutish and short.
A while back I read a great book by CS DeWildt (Love You to a Pulp)and I loved it so much I thought I would try out one of his earlier novels and I am really glad I made that decision. Candy and Cigarettes is as good as its successor is and I loved everything about it.
This offering from DeWildt is a short novella but it packs a punch equal to some longer works of other authors. It centers on Lloyd Bizbang, who has been tormented throughout his life because he was present at his younger sister’s death (and inadvertently contributed to it) and also had a hand in his grandmother’s death. When death follows a young child this closely, a stigma is sure to develop and Llyod has done little in lfe to rid himself of the dark cloud that follows him around.
His main rivals are Terry and Zeke Cutter who are burning a path of criminal destruction through the town and making things appear that Llyod has a hand in the crimes. These two are angry, vengeful brothers who set out to make Llyod’s life a living hell and have succeeded at every turn. Their crimes are becoming more violent and they set themselves onto a path of sure destruction.
The novella also features the Chief of Police who is has found out he is terminally ill and that news has set him on a self-destructive path and he seems set on taking Llyod down with him. His mental instability made the chapters featuring him a blast to read and he adds a good deal of depth to the story.
The book has a lightening paced plot and the characters all have life to them. If I had to pick out the one thing I didn’t like about the book, I would say it was too short! The writing chops that DeWildt has were on full display here and I am glad I devoured this book. If you haven’t sampled this author yet, you need to rectify that immediately.
Highly recommended.
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