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kbrsuperstar's review
2.0
It's a little hard to review this, as it's three separate novellas by three different authors. The first (Dredd Vs. Death) was really quite good in all aspects, and the only reason this book gets two rather than zero stars. The middle novella (Kingdom of the Blind) was absolute garbage, even for this sort of glorified fanfiction: terrible pacing, full of dick jokes and lazy stereotypes. The last (The Final Cut) alternated between Dredd's story in third person and another character's first person POV (which, y'know, blech). I honestly skipped over the first person POV chapters entirely and didn't feel as though I missed anything. Overall, not nearly as good as [b:Judge Dredd Year One: Omnibus|21412500|Judge Dredd Year One Omnibus|Matt Smith|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1415677390s/21412500.jpg|40713417].
lynn_k's review
2.0
This book consists of three novels.
The first one, Dredd Vs. Death, was really good and if I was rating just that novel I would give it 4 stars.
The second novel, Kingdom of the Blind, was full of racist and homophobic slurs, and I did not finish it. Judge Dredd doesn't care what you do in your personal life as long as you don't break the law. It felt like the author had never even read any JD comics and was just going off of a summary of the character and decided that he would be a racist homophobe when there is absolutely nothing in the source material that would support that.
The third novel, Final Cut, didn't have enough Judge Dredd in it, and I didn't finish that one either. Only about a third of the novel had JD in it, and the rest was following the criminals, and sorry, but I don't read Judge Dredd to find out the inner workings of bad guys. I read Judge Dredd to see him kick perp ass.
I'm glad I read the first novel, but the other two were just shameful and boring, respectively.
The first one, Dredd Vs. Death, was really good and if I was rating just that novel I would give it 4 stars.
The second novel, Kingdom of the Blind, was full of racist and homophobic slurs, and I did not finish it. Judge Dredd doesn't care what you do in your personal life as long as you don't break the law. It felt like the author had never even read any JD comics and was just going off of a summary of the character and decided that he would be a racist homophobe when there is absolutely nothing in the source material that would support that.
The third novel, Final Cut, didn't have enough Judge Dredd in it, and I didn't finish that one either. Only about a third of the novel had JD in it, and the rest was following the criminals, and sorry, but I don't read Judge Dredd to find out the inner workings of bad guys. I read Judge Dredd to see him kick perp ass.
I'm glad I read the first novel, but the other two were just shameful and boring, respectively.
weirdfi's review
4.0
The atmosphere and violence was very well replicated from the movie Dredd universe.
And enjoyable trio of shortish stories. Though the third story, The Final Cut was almost too descriptive in its torture scenes for me to continue at some points.
And enjoyable trio of shortish stories. Though the third story, The Final Cut was almost too descriptive in its torture scenes for me to continue at some points.
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