The fate of poor Michele is the one scene I can't seem to get out of my head but perhaps that's because despite the level of gore in this book, it is the most detailed murder.
I'm wondering now if there is an overlap with Silk and maybe those characters show up there too - wouldn't that be amazing? These gutterpunks are only introduced in one scene and I was left wanting to know more about them.
Kiernan (The Lazarus Heart was also dedicated to her). I would have preferred to revisit Robin, a "gutterpunk" who watches her friend Michele be led to his doom in a narrow alley over the top of a "ratty paperback novel" called Silk, a nod to Caitlin R. Everyone had been killed by that point though so I suppose Brite was limited in his character choices. Aaron, owner of the Eye of Horus, was a particularly strange choice for the epilogue as he'd only been in one previous scene. Interesting characters are introduced and then never revisited while others have so little input they could have been done away with all together. It's a Brite novel, so obviously it's beautifully written and stunningly gory, but the book does suffer because of its length (just over 200 pages). Unfortunately the crow, Jared's link to the world of the living, is unable to discover this man because he is shielded by his lunacy, the very thing that has driven him to hunt and kill members of New Orleans's transgender and transsexual community. Jared is warned by Benny's twin, a voodoo dabbling telepath called Lucrece, not to go after the men who hurt him but to instead focus on the man responsible for Benny's murder. This isn't a cut-and-dried Crow story, and that's a good thing. Jared Poe rises from the dead inside his own mausoleum and embarks on a quest to exact vengeance against those who pinned the blame on him for his husband Benny's murder, sending him to prison where he ends up stabbed to death in the exercise yard. I can't believe I haven't read this one long before now.
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