QE1 said:
grant said:
Simon R Green has a book for a new series, the Ishmael Jones mystery. This first one, well I think it has some good points but I also think that it's got missed opportunities, some annoying developments and something close to a deus ex machina (alright, you could infer that it might happen, but no way could you be at all sure). Sadly, since it's a sci fi mystery I can't really even go into what I think those are and it seems to me that the villain really caused their own disaster by being plain dumb.
But hey, maybe some new approaches will be good for him as he adjusts to the new format and so far no obvious constant references to the Drood.
But hey, maybe some new approaches will be good for him as he adjusts to the new format and so far no obvious constant references to the Drood.
Really Green makes me think of a talented beginner. You can see that he has ideas and can make a sentence, but you also see that there are mistakes and he might have been better served using characters in other ways.