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wmhenrymorris's review
Probably problematic if you had to wait awhile for it come out and read it without the previous books fresh in your mind, but because I had read all of the previous ones in a row before this one, I liked it.
jvan's review
2.0
I'm a big fan of the Garrett Files, but this one was kind of bad. The "plot" is negligible, pretty much just Garrett sitting at home while nothing much happens. The writing is worse than regular, with choppy non-paragraphs that should have been edited together and, because they aren't, read terribly. The chapter breaks are randomly placed, the characters have very little to do...basically if anything could be worse than normal, it was. But I still read it, because I'm a chump. It's passable, barely.
shawnbilodeau's review against another edition
Thirteenth in the 'Garret, P.I.' series. It can be described as Rex Stout meets J. R. R. Tolkein by way of Raymond Chandler. Garret's girlfriend is almost kidnapped. His best friend, Morely Dotes, has been attacked and nearly killed. Garret has to find who, or what, is behind the attacks. No one writes gritty realistic fantasy (not an oxymoron) better than Cook. His work is a favorite.
corvus_corone's review
4.0
Of all the sci-fi/fantasy detective series out there, Glen Cook's Garrett, PI series is my favorite. Gilded Latten Bones is the thirteenth and latest book in the series and Cook explores how Tunfaire, politics, and Garrett himself are changing over time.
After Morley is found on the brink of death and a kidnapping attempt on Tinnie is made, Garrett is determined to find out why. This is complicated when the same people try to kill Garrett with a handful of strangely dressed frankensteined zombies, an alluring woman in skintight black leather on a goat cart, and shape changing land kraken. Not to mention Garrett's arrangements with Tinnie Tate have gotten more complicated and rocky than usual. Mixed up in all of this are the usual cast of characters, Pular Singe, ratgirl tracker extraordinaire, Belinda Contague, psychotic mob boss, Furious Tide of Light, the Windwalker, Dean, the Dead Man, Penny Dreadful, as well as many new faces.
The story does get a bit bogged down and confusing just because Garrett is a bit removed from the action; much of it is told through various characters updating him on what's going on. Overall not my favorite Garrett novel but fun, I look forward to seeing how several of the story threads, left tantalizingly open, are continued. However, I do have to wonder how many more metals and alloys Cook can come up with for the titles.
After Morley is found on the brink of death and a kidnapping attempt on Tinnie is made, Garrett is determined to find out why. This is complicated when the same people try to kill Garrett with a handful of strangely dressed frankensteined zombies, an alluring woman in skintight black leather on a goat cart, and shape changing land kraken. Not to mention Garrett's arrangements with Tinnie Tate have gotten more complicated and rocky than usual. Mixed up in all of this are the usual cast of characters, Pular Singe, ratgirl tracker extraordinaire, Belinda Contague, psychotic mob boss, Furious Tide of Light, the Windwalker, Dean, the Dead Man, Penny Dreadful, as well as many new faces.
The story does get a bit bogged down and confusing just because Garrett is a bit removed from the action; much of it is told through various characters updating him on what's going on. Overall not my favorite Garrett novel but fun, I look forward to seeing how several of the story threads, left tantalizingly open, are continued. However, I do have to wonder how many more metals and alloys Cook can come up with for the titles.
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