MizNikki

This read made me think of the music from Cypress Hill:

I want to get high so high!
I want to get high so high!
I want to get high so high!
I want to get high so high!
Well that's the funk elastic the blunt I twist it
The slamafied (buddafied) funk on your discus
Oh what you messed with you got to bare witness
Catch a ho and another ho Merry Christmas
Yes I smoke shit straight off the roach clip
I roach it roll the blunt at once to approach it
Forward motion make you sway like the ocean
The herb is more than just a powerful potion
What's the commotion, yo I'm not joking around
People learning about, what they're smoking
My oven is on high, when I roast the quail
Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale
Exhale, now you felt the funk of the power
Now feel the effects...
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!


My Review>

2 1/2 Stars

If I set aside the nastiness of it all, which some would add a star for due to the gumption one would think you would need to actually put that stuff on paper, this read would just be mediocre.
The scenery, the drug use, and the street life all seemed so freaking real that either the author has turned a few tricks or he knows someone close that does. I kid you not. It felt non-fictional at certain times. Further into the book when the plot began to breakdown and the characters had to pull the story along, you began to see the huge-ass flaws. The characters. They were paper-thin and could easily be spotted in other lame mysteries.

Jack is a wanna-be star fanatic who wants to be on tv.
Karen is his whored out wife he found on the streets and stupidly married.
Together they are two drugged out nobodies.
Karen comes home one day and says she's leaving. He gets angry, pops her a good one, and she's gone. He trolls around the streets looking for her and comes upon a crime scene where his wife has been found dead, cut open. He doesn't really care like he thought he would and continues on with his life, minus a money source.
He decides to trick and meets a lady who turns his life around completely. With a rogue cop trying to find his wife's killer and Jack trying to live the good life, it seems like nothing ever goes his way.

I read it all the way through, but found some parts really unbelievable and I guessed the real killer too early to find enjoyment.
Still. Mr. Stokoe has a way with imagery.

Warning: Heavy drug use, sex/gay sex, and Necrophilia.