Customer Reviews

Love Stories Are Too Violent for Me

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Nostalgic, quotable-quippy, humorous and sharp writing highlights this neo-noir work, with its nods to classic noir films (as well as Eighties music and San Francisco). Its characters are interesting and relatable, the action never lags, and the character-based twists are often unexpected and always worthwhile: this is one of the best neo-noir works I've read in long time.

This book is the first in the "Vic Valentine, Private Eye" series, and it's really well done. The story is great, so are the characters. The dialogue and internal description are best of all. I can't imagine how someone could write this stuff without living it. I have now given 7 or 8 copies of this book as gifts. The second book, "Fate is my Pimp", promises to be even better. I've seen excerpts and gone to readings by the author, "William Viharo". Without a doubt, I'll order it as soon as it's published.

I heard the title and spit my drink out all over my keyboard. Googling it, I found myself on this page and read the two Editorial Reviews and the reader review by A Customer. Spit a second mouthful of Scotch out when I read the title of his next book, "Fate Is My Pimp."

Even though I suspect that Will wrote all three reviews :-), I ordered the book just now, and am writing this without having read it. I already know I'll love it. He had me at the title.