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Summary: Finally, a REAL Ghostbuster. . .
Review: Meet Jason Wood, computer geek and imaging specialist. Not the kind of person you would expect to be investigating, and fighting. . . monsters. Yet, he turns out, with the help of his girlfriend Sylvia, to be the central point of several interconnected tales featuring vampires, werewolves, and previously unknown monsters. . . and technology. Add in a few conspiracies, the real "X-Files" agency, and a few unexpected plot twists, and you get a thoroughly enjoyable first novel.I only gave it 4 stars, because I want MORE. . ..
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Summary: A really fun read
Review: Sometimes I'm just in the mood for fun, and this book suited that mood perfectly. It had just enough meat in its ideas to keep my brain in gear, and it romped through ideas from vampire and werewolf mythos to the Gaea hypothesis with bravery bordering on foolhardiness. Jason is an engaging character, and Verne is by far the most promising vampire character in years. This is NOT a typical "modern vampire" book. It is a detective novel and a comedy and punnalicious.
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Summary: A really fun read
Review: Sometimes I'm just in the mood for fun, and this book suited that mood perfectly. It had just enough meat in its ideas to keep my brain in gear, and it romped through ideas from vampire and werewolf mythos to the Gaea hypothesis with bravery bordering on foolhardiness. Jason is an engaging character, and Verne is by far the most promising vampire character in years. This is NOT a typical "modern vampire" book. It is a detective novel and a comedy and punnalicious.
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Summary: Digital Knight - A pretty good first time novel
Review: Synopsis
Digital Knight is a series of stories narrated by the book's hero, Jason Wood, a private detective/computer geek/accidental paranormal expert. The stories chronicle his adventures as he, along with his close lady friend and psychic Sylvie, stumble into the world of the not so normal, and find that it's even more not so normal than they'd ever expected. Strange things abound, from real-live werewolves, to a vampire who is older than anyone expects to an ancient myth that turns out to be true... sort of. About the Book:
A first work for its author, Digital Knight is an interesting book in that it represents a body of work that shows how an idea can evolve over time. Clearly, Mr. Spoor didn't originally intend the characters to take the course they did, based on the first couple stories alone. What appears to be a simple series of stories involving vampires and werewolves and paranormal such things, turns into a strange albeit entertaining alternate mythology with a lot more in it than simple vamps. The evolution of the idea turns out not to be that bad of a thing. Spoor manages to take the clichés' of these old wives' tale bad guys and creates something entirely different and unique, albeit far fetched at times. The effect is such that the reader makes discoveries at the same pace as the author and characters do. It makes for a fun read. Ultimately, the stories easily keep your interest throughout, and a number of the characters are interesting enough to make you care about what happens to them. Be warned though, if you're looking at this book for traditional vampire/werewolf series of stories, these are not them. Digital Knight is more sci-fi related than traditional folk-lore. Likewise, if you're looking for hard, deep sci-fi stories, you won't find them here, though this certainly qualifies as both sci-fi and Fantasy. Spoor's Digital Knight stories read more like detective short stories, while being light on the detective part. Overall, this is a fun read, and a pretty good entry for a first time author. I'm looking forward to a follow-up to Digital Knight or other books from Spoor.
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Summary: original, good, NOT a vampire tale
Review: This book is a very good read but only if you go into it without any expectations like "oh this is a vampire book" and other such assumptions. What Mr Spoor has done here is something few authors ever manage to pull off. Create almost an entirely new world out of the one we already live in. Personally i think he did a great job and I can't wait to see a sequel because it certainly needs one!
The reason I gave it only four instead of five was because the story, at the beginning did not flow very well. It was episodic and proved a little annoying to read. Also, part of what made it so original was all the different elements and concepts brought in from different sub-genres of fantasy/scifi and they all kind of clashed a bit. It was like mixing red, blue, and red but without stirring very well.
^_^ hope you get invited to the next I-CON Mr Spoor!
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Summary: a disappointng book
Review: This was a disappointing book in many ways. First it's not exactly a novel. Instead it's a series of episodes involving the same set of characters. You get the impression this started out as a sequence of short stories. Second the transitions between the episodes is repetitious and awkward. One of the major characters does a badly handled flip flop between the first and second episodes for instance. There are the bones of an interesting story here if the author had just taken the step of rewriting the episodes especially the first two to make the storyline consistant and remove the glitches.
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Summary: Fun first novel
Review: This was a fun romp, well thought out for a first novel! Maybe because it's set up as a series of vignettes, I never got the feeling that he was desperately scrambling to fill pages like I do with so many first novels. The main character isn't supernatural at all, which I liked, and the secondary characters are interesting. The Verne character is a little overpowering, but overall, Mr Spoor does a pretty good job of reining him back.
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Summary: What not to like?
Review: What's not to like? Vampires, werewolves, and computers, together with enough other plot lines to boggle the mind. I couldn't put it down.
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