I hold her close until she's gone... I'll cash her check in the morning (Sin City: Booze, Broads, and Bullets - Frank Miller)

Member Name: daemonicragnorak

Product:	Sin City: Booze, Broads, and Bullets - Frank Miller
Date:	28/04/09 (35 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A few good stories featuring cameos from other Sin City characters

Disadvantages: Stories are too short when compared to other Sin City stories

Most people will have come across the Sin City film over the last few years, but not everyone has gotten around to reading the 7 books from which the stories are taken from.

The film featured stories from 3 of the 7 books, with at least 2 other films announced it is possible some of the other books will be appearing in them. However this is one book that won't be appearing in any of them, at least not in full.

Booze, Broads & Bullets is a collection of short stories from the Sin City world which are around 20 pages in length each. Some of your favourite characters, like Marv, pop up inside this book along with the introduction of some new characters, such as Delia (who goes on to appear in the seventh book as well).

The one short story that you will recognise from the film is 'The customer is always right', this is the part from the very begining of the film with Josh Harnett with a lady on a roof top. It is pleasing to read this after seeing it in the film, everything is the same word for word, to see how faithful to the book they kept the film.

As the title suggests this book is full of the normal Sin City culture of booze, girls and guns. The book essentially consists of picking up on a character after they've gotten themselves into trouble and then you just watch them die or get out of it, by their various methods.

Albeit nice when you have a short story about Marv waking up to find some dead police around him, followed by him trying to remember how it all happened, but the story is just too short to get into it properly.

This is true with alot of the other stories, which is a shame as they show potential, who knows they may get developed for one of the sequels, but as they stand in the book they aren't quite as good as the other Sin City stories.

There are some good stories inside the book and I hope to see them on the big screen before too long. This is still a good read, but because of the length of the stories, I would only recommend buying this if you have already brought the other six books and have thoroughly enjoyed them.

Summary: Buy the other 6 books in the series before you buy this, the 6th book