Nothing But Blue Skies

Rating:
Summary: Not for me
Review: Recommended by friends who know my affection for Robert Rankin books I was expecting something similar, if a little less surreal. I was disappointed. Very put-able down-able, sporadically funny but not enough to make up for the lack of flow, I got the impression the author wrote this when he had nothing better to do. Maybe I picked the wrong book for my first Tom Holt, as were it more consistent in its humour, it would have been far more enjoyable.

Rating:
Summary: Great Holt
Review: Whew! Finished it! I suggest you read this book with about 200 bookmarks, or a notepad and pen ready - I wasn't two pages in before telling myself to remember this funny bit, that funny line.
It's fantastic - You almost want him to slow the pace of the action, to properly appreciate all the good bits that are slipped in with the action. The one liners or the musings on workings of man, and just why the weather drove the English to build an empire.
There are stilted men in grey suits wandering around trying to gather up another Ark. The weather men are revolting. A dragon has fallen in love with a human, and Murdoch is trying to take over the world. Again.
Complete chaos ensues, and the characters are trotting in and out so fast it's all a whirl to hold them together - old chums and new torturers, it's brilliant.
I have been reading a great deal of Pratchett, and Tom Holt is completely different yet... the similarity is most apparent in their despair on the inadequacies of agencies and individuals.. or is that masses?

Is it a treatise on fatherly love? Or the fallibility of human love? Is it more concerned with exactly how whacked the English are? Or is it intended as a showcase for Australian adventure? Do we really spend a third of our lives sleeping?

All I can definitively say is: it's your call, reader.