Rating: 
Summary: Spotty Follow-Up
Review: Where the previous volume of this series felt like a great introduction, this book feels leaden. Half the time, the author feels like he's still setting up the setting, but nearly every character or setting he introduces is destroyed right away. In the end, only Jessica Sorrow remains of the new characters introduced to return in the future.Author Simon R. Green hopscotches from one encounter to another--a psychic boy band, a dancer who lives by stealing vitality from the undead, a gun that works by undoing God's creation--only to have the lead prove fruitless and the characters in question be destroyed. This feels less like a mission or a quest than a scavanger hunt at a spastic child's birthday party. Green has a wonderful setting in the Nightside, and compelling, sympathetic characters in John Taylor and Suzie Shooter. Here's hoping that, in future installments, he rambles less and narrates more.
Rating:
Summary: Spotty Follow-Up
Review: Where the previous volume of this series felt like a great introduction, this book feels leaden. Half the time, the author feels like he's still setting up the setting, but nearly every character or setting he introduces is destroyed right away. In the end, only Jessica Sorrow remains of the new characters introduced to return in the future. Author Simon R. Green hopscotches from one encounter to another--a psychic boy band, a dancer who lives by stealing vitality from the undead, a gun that works by undoing God's creation--only to have the lead prove fruitless and the characters in question be destroyed. This feels less like a mission or a quest than a scavanger hunt at a spastic child's birthday party. Green has a wonderful setting in the Nightside, and compelling, sympathetic characters in John Taylor and Suzie Shooter. Here's hoping that, in future installments, he rambles less and narrates more.
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