Garbage Man by Joseph D’Lacey

It’s weird when you try and second-guess a book by the blurb and cover picture. I was expecting a 21st Century visceral Stig of the Dump, but D’Lacey gives us something else, something darker from the bottom of the garbage (rubbish).

The characters are introduced not as people to care about, but victims that by the end you don’t mind getting slaughtered. Their lives read like a modern day list of the 7 Deadly Sins; lust, sloth, envy etc, but in their midst is one jewel of a girl that you sorta pin your hopes on, sadly she hardly in the book until the end.

I think it would be a better book in a leaner form, say 75-100 pages lighter. Because the last quarter of the book is great; but what really saves this book is the last 25 pages. D’Lacey gives such a killer ending; you forgive the flatness of the first half of the book. He pulls it out of the bin liner big time and if the action in the last quarter cranks up like a rising hill, the ending is pure Everest in stature.

I know i have been picky here, but it does not take away the fact that Joseph D’Lacey is an exciting new genre busting author of a new age and he writes stories like no other.

Watch out for his first US novella sized book called Kill Crew in the coming month also.