07-30-2024, 09:43 AM | #31891 |
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Doc Savage
The Sinister Shadow (The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage Book 14)
by Kenneth Robeson/Will Murray 2015 If you aren't familiar with the great pulp heroes, you may take a while to get into this one, but I found it an agreeable pastiche in which the Man of Bronze crosses paths with The Shadow. Doc is baffled at first whether the Shadow is a bad guy or a crime-fighter, and even ships one of the Shadow's agents off to be treated at his secret "College" in the mountains. The plot thickens ..... |
08-02-2024, 06:14 PM | #31892 |
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Unimpressed. Long slog. Reasons were the amateurish writing, cliches, immature romance scenes, slow plot and callous regard for life. The dragons were interesting, and the ending was unexpected. This may be a case where the TV show is better than the book.
Considering all the best-book-of-the-year awards this title won I expected more ... much much more. Regarding the "romantasy" category, Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education was far superior IMO. Next, The Inverted World by Christopher Priest, a Hugo nominee 1975. |
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After that I raced through several books by Seanan McGuire in her October Daye and Incryptid series: The Brightest Fell, Night and Silence, and Chaos Choreography. All good fun. Then a recent buy: The Death of Nnanji. A very good late fourth book for his Seventh Sword trilogy. Enjoyable, and didn't mess up the earlier books. Most recently finished was A Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis. The tenth in her Flavia Albia series. It starts off with an unnecessary first chapter which is then recapitulated in correct choronological order later. There's a very odd reference to golden age detective story tropes. On the whole, a bit odd, and too many of Albia's internal musings are anachronistic. I also thought that given the common spectacles in Rome, her squeamishness and that of some of the other characters in here was overplayed. Next up: The Wages of Sin by Harry Turtledove. A near-past (for Harry) alternate history in the 19th Century. A freebie from Phoenix Pick. |
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