Tokyo Slaughterhouse

The Tokyo Trilogy #2

by barber-stephen

Three ferocious teenage gangs are fighting for control over the ruins of Tokyo, decimated one year earlier by a tsunami. The forces driving the lawless megalopolis are now those of carnage, sex and destruction. The gangs confront one another in a series of murderous encounters, until the nature of power itself has been stripped to the bone. Tokyo forms an arena in which the human body must transform itself in order to survive. In this unprecedented novel - a virulent amalgam of J.G. Ballard and Takashi Miike - Stephen Barber continues the reinvention of extreme sex-writing initiated with TOKYO SODOM, meshing it with bike-gang violence and the growing contemporary obsession with the out-of-control, proliferating techno-cities of East Asia. This is a novel that will satiate all readers engaged with exploring the outer reaches of nihilistic violence, sexual addiction and urban exhilaration. TOKYO SLAUGHTERHOUSE offers an extravagant onslaught for the reader's senses.

Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

Reviews

[Fin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I gave it 2 stars for the idea and the creatity but like Tokyo Sodom, it felt repetative and tacky. I put it down for ages, it's only 170 pages and took me over a month to read. I just couldn't get into it. You get fed up with things being so poorly executed. I was moving at the time of reading and maybe that inlfuenced my opinion but I was looking forward to reading it and possibly built up too much emphasis on it. I didn't enjoy it.