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jubaju's review
2.0
1.5 stars
The last book was good enough that I considered bumping the series up to 3 stars, but this one changed my mind. Nyquist is just too emotional for me. He's out and about trying to find information and immediately gets upset when strangers aren't forthcoming so he starts slamming his hands on tables and shouting at them. Definitely not the best way to get people to open up. He acts more like a toddler than an adult man and it gets old and boring after a while.
Other than that, the writing was alright but the plot rested too much on Nyquist's shoulders and I didn't care.
The last book was good enough that I considered bumping the series up to 3 stars, but this one changed my mind. Nyquist is just too emotional for me. He's out and about trying to find information and immediately gets upset when strangers aren't forthcoming so he starts slamming his hands on tables and shouting at them. Definitely not the best way to get people to open up. He acts more like a toddler than an adult man and it gets old and boring after a while.
Other than that, the writing was alright but the plot rested too much on Nyquist's shoulders and I didn't care.
erikbail's review
3.0
I realized why I don't like these books that much. The main character is absolutely unlikable. All he does is get angry -_-
noodles01's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
spikespiegel's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
annarella's review
5.0
This was the first book I read in this series but I liked it so much that I bought all the previous instalments.
It's weird, atmospheric, enthralling and I couldn't put it down.
It was not love at first read but the more I read the more I was fascinated by the characters and the world building.
I think that Mr Noon can surely write a story that will keep you hooked till the last page.
An excellent read, highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
It's weird, atmospheric, enthralling and I couldn't put it down.
It was not love at first read but the more I read the more I was fascinated by the characters and the world building.
I think that Mr Noon can surely write a story that will keep you hooked till the last page.
An excellent read, highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
abookishtype's review
3.0
Once again, I have started a series at the wrong end. Creeping Jenny is Jeff Noon’s third novel featuring detective John Nyquist. Fortunately, this novel stands on its own as it takes Nyquist into a strange version of rural England, to a town were everyone’s behavior is ruled by a series of saints. The saints are selected at random and there is no abstention for visitors. So, not only does Nyquist have to solve his own mystery, but also the ever-changing codes of conduct in Hoxley-on-the-Hale. Once I got my reading feet under me, I was completely hooked...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.
kateofmind's review
5.0
I really like Jeff Noon a lot already, but these Nyquist novels are simply blowing me away. At bottom they're just good old noir detective whodunnits with speculative fiction twists, but the twists are some of the most inventive and unusual I've seen, for all that at bottom they also boil down to just more iterations of Noon's Lewis Carroll fixations. And I do mean that in the plural: not just Carrollian word play, or Carrollian whimsy, surrealism, mathematico-logical offerings (I evoke Hofstadter as deliberately as these books' cover artist has) and supporting character hostility. An important through line to the story of John Nyquist's journeys through Wonderlandish communities seems to have wrapped up in this book where I would expect it to in the fourth and (I believe) final one, but Noon still has plenty up his sleeve, I trust -- and it looks like the son of perpetual daylight, who had to tangle with a whole city full of twisted authorial intent last novel and contend with 360 bizarre Saint's Days (each with its own inconvenient, creepy and sometimes downright hazardous paranormal behavioral compulsions) has now gotten himself a sidekick? Bring it on!
pheonixangel84's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
75891814514's review
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0