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"He could think about killing and corpse rape later."
Billy Silver is not a nice guy. As a matter of fact, he is outright despicable. And this is before his transformation. Heroin addict, alcoholic, misanthropic Billy is broke. He discovers a place where he can get paid to get a tattoo. Little does he know that his brand new ink will bring on a new addiction. One that makes him yearn for blood and brutality . Things get really, really messy from here. If you are craving some violent and graphical ...more
Billy Silver is not a nice guy. As a matter of fact, he is outright despicable. And this is before his transformation. Heroin addict, alcoholic, misanthropic Billy is broke. He discovers a place where he can get paid to get a tattoo. Little does he know that his brand new ink will bring on a new addiction. One that makes him yearn for blood and brutality . Things get really, really messy from here. If you are craving some violent and graphical ...more
Daniel Volpe drags you down into the violent junkie cesspit world of Billy Silver and holds your attention throughout. There are supernatural elements and extreme sadistic violence, but the real horror here is addiction and it's consequences. Powerful, brutal and very readable.
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This was my first Daniel J. Volpe read, recommended to me by one of my Instagram followers. I have to say that I had such an indifferent feeling about this book after finishing it, which is weird because I absolutely devoured this novel in one day. Billy Silver is the stereotypical heroine addict and just a horrible human being. There wasn't much to like about him or his girlfriend, but Volpe's writing kept me reading because the story had me hooked. This is an extreme horror novel, so I don't r
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BILLY SILVER [2020] By Daniel J. Volpe
My Review 4.0 Stars
The original publication date was November 17, 2020, and I purchased a kindle edition last year October 22, 2023. The cover sports an endorsement by the legendary Edward Lee:
“This is a unique story that should ruffle the corridors of new extremism in American fiction”
Strangely no kindle edition exists but for the one pictured above, sold by Amazon.
“Billy Silver” is a short read with a print length of 145 pages. I read it over a couple of ...more
My Review 4.0 Stars
The original publication date was November 17, 2020, and I purchased a kindle edition last year October 22, 2023. The cover sports an endorsement by the legendary Edward Lee:
“This is a unique story that should ruffle the corridors of new extremism in American fiction”
Strangely no kindle edition exists but for the one pictured above, sold by Amazon.
“Billy Silver” is a short read with a print length of 145 pages. I read it over a couple of ...more
I so so so so so badly wanted to like this book. I have enjoyed other things by Volpe. I can’t even think of one decent thing to say about it. It isn’t the worst thing I’ve read, I’ll give it that. There’s zero likable characters. Zero. I guess Jeannine is sympathetic but at the same time she’s so one dimensional, who even cares? Talia has no personality but somehow is the femme fatale. I haven’t read Talia but I’m sure she’s a demon or succubus or something. Yeah it’s cool the stories are conne
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Nov 30, 2022
Michael Toft Adelholm (michael_learns_to_review)
marked it as to-read
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