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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lot Lizards grinds like a Kenworth,
By jeppy@brigadoon.com (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lot Lizards (Hardcover)
Ray Garton's _Lot Lizards_ grinds like a big deisel. He hauls you into a truck stop, sets the air brakes and locks you into the setting. You hear a hundred truck engines idling, you smell the fuel oil and the greasy food from the truck stop diner. Ray Garton shows you the trucker's lifestyle, and not all of it is romantic open roads. Passion? Yes, but usually bought, in the form of young prostitutes --lot lizards-- that frequent truck stops, roaming between the aisles of parked rigs. The lot lizards at this particular truck stop, however, are strange: they're a little trashier than usual, a little bolder, and they seem to be hanging around two black Peterbilts loaded with coffins. And they have fangs. Those who look for sympathetic vampire protagonists are not going to find any here. Ray Garton's vampires are *not* your friends. You don't want to sit in a room with them and ask them questions about their immortality. You want to get out your crucifix, smear yourself with garlic oil, and start sharpening your wooden stakes. _Lot Lizards_ is vampire fiction for those who are tired of the bitterweet tales called "dark fiction" that have been at the forefront of the bookstores lately. If you like *horror* then these are the vampires you want. After reading _Lot Lizards_, you'll never see a truck stop the same way again.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Down and dirty, gritty, no-nonsense vampire story,
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This review is from: Lot Lizards (Hardcover)
Garton's "Live Girls" was awesome; too bad it's out of print. I'd forgotten the author, but now I see the resemblance. The only thing that didn't ring quite true in "Lot Lizards" was how completely just ONE vampire retained his humanity. The characterizations are good, mystery is sometimes left alone to remain mysterious (as it should be), and in general there's not a dull moment.
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a vampire book should be,
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This review is from: Lot Lizards (Paperback)
Just finished this book tonight. It's awesome! This is how I like vampires- as the monsters they are meant to be, not "immortal lovers" or high school students. The vampires in this are gritty, sleazy hookers that prey on lonely truckers at truck stops. They're not nice, they don't want to be your friend and they're not self hating whiners that cry over their lost humanity. I also like the setting for the book and found the characters likeable and realistic, one of my faves being Byron the janitor. I will definitely be reading Live Girls and Night Life, two more vampire novels by this author. This book is NOT for the Twilight crowd.
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