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The Unnatural Inquirer: A Novel of the Nightside by: Simon R. Green List Price: £12.26 City Travel Guides Price: £11.09 You Save: £1.17 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92 EAN: 9780441015580 ISBN: 0441015581 Label: Ace Books Manufacturer: Ace Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: January 02, 2008 Publisher: Ace Books Studio: Ace Books Sales Rank: 137013 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Green follows his standardrecipeSimon Green has a way with words, and his imagination can create creatures and monsters like few others. And this novel is no exception. Apart from that this novel is disappointing. Simon Green follows his standard recipe : John Taylor is paid to find something and naturally succeed. A lot of very powerful beings want to stop him, but whenever John Taylor gets into a tight corner he uses his gift. Why does Simon Green even bother to invent these terrible monsters, if all John Taylor need to do to deal with them is to use his gift for finding things? Even John Taylors interaction with his companion on the mission is strangely flat and routine. Perhaps because we know from the start that a love affair with someone ... Read More: Rating:  - Nightside noirSimon R. Green's Nightside is the REAL dark side of London -- a city full of sleazy supernaturals and dark secrets, perpetually locked in night. And "The Unnatural Inquirer" is Simon R. Green's eighth fantasy-noir set in the Nightside -- it's full of weird crimes, crazy inhabitants, and strange power grabs. This isn't quite Green's best, but it has his usual solid blend of mystery, horror, fantasy and dark humour. As the story opens, John Taylor and his new love Suzie Shotgun are dealing with voodoo mayhem at a gruesome adult carnival. But then Cathy sends him a new assignment, working for the sleazy tabloid The Unnatural Inquirer. Apparently a guy named Pen Donovan somehow recorded a vision of the afterlife on a ... Read More: |
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