Ce troisième roman de la série Bourbon Kid est dans la même veine que les deux précédents. Prenant le partie d'explorer des évènements antérieurs à ceux précédemment racontés, cela permet à l'auteur d'utiliser des personnages décédés depuis, à la plus grande joie du lecteur. Après les vampires ayant peuplés le tome un puis les loup-garous dans le deuxième tome, l'auteur met ici des zombies au cœur de ces nouvelles aventures. Tout comme avec le précédent opus, le roman est réussi mais ne parvient pas à nous replonger dans le plaisir total que l'on prenait à la lecture du Livre sans nom. ( )

Have you ever wondered what would happen if X Factor met Night of the Living Dead? Me neither, but I’m sure as hell pleased that the anonymous author of The Devil’s Graveyard chose to mash these two unlikely forces together!

The third in the Bourbon Kid series (following The Book With No Name and The Eye of the Moon) takes a detour away from the vampire and werewolf infested city of Santa Mondega, and instead we are plonked bang in the middle of the Arizona desert at the Hotel Pasadena, which seems to be the holiday destination of choice for the undead as well as every lowlife and murderer in the country! Throw in an army of flesh-eating zombies and you have a whole different meaning to the term self-catering!

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ça démarre bien ... un hotel où des sosies de chanteurs disparus se mesurent dans un concours de chant. Des meurtres.. et puis des longueurs... heureusement que les 100 dernières pages rattrapent cela. ( )

The third book in the series which begins with [The Book With No Name] and I think by this time the joke is wearing a little thin. The body count has probably been ratcheted up a notch (well with The Bourbon Kid, Elvis & Invincible Angus around I guess that should be expected) but it's done at the expense of the storyline.

Santa Mondega's resident cowardly barman, Sanchez Garcia, has won a trip to the Hotel Pasadena where they're holding the Back from the Dead singing competition. Entrants must perform in the style of a dead musician so new characters this time around include Judy Garland, Freddie Mercury, James Brown & Jacko. What most of the performers don't know is that the contest is rigged and of the 5 pre-selected finalists it seems one of them wants to whittle down the competition a little more. Hence the arrival of hitman, Invincible Angus, but as he's a little late to the party the job is given to The Bourbon Kid so you know the blood's gonna fly.

It also seems that a few of the cast of characters know the real story behind the contest. The winner gets to sign a nice big contract with a Million-dollar first prize thrown in for good measure. The only problem is that the contract is of the sell your soul to the Devil type of deal. Oh! And there's zombies! Lots and lots of zombies!

It's probably not as bad as I've made it out to be and there are a few laughs to be had (Janis Joplin is a scream) and it can be read stand-alone if you feel inclined. ( )