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A review by johnbreeden
Frankenstein: City of Night by Ed Gorman, Dean Koontz
3.0
It's been over half a decade since I've read Prodigal Son, first in the Frankenstein series. I do remember that I enjoyed it, but wasn't enraptured enough to run directly to the next. This book picks up immediately after the first, with Dr. Frankenstein's (Helios') first creation, Ducalion, and his two police officer allies, going separate ways and into their own separate adventures. Victor's New Race, they discover, has broken into every tier of society in New Orleans, and no one can be trusted. Just as this revelation comes, it is also revealed that the New Race is devolving and changing into something that even their creator may not be able to control.
This book is an in-between in every sense. No real conflicts, save one small one, are resolved in this book. You come to the last pages as if you have the key to the door that leads to Apocalypse, but you can't find the keyhole. I suspect that the next novel will take off with a crash, but I miss having something unique to take from this book. I think it would be more rewarding if at least one of the threads had been resolved. I suppose the Randal Six arc was resolved, but not in a way that satisfies me. Instead, this is a book full of cliffhangers.
Admittedly, I have forgotten some of the base elements from the first novel. I do remember the two detectives, Ducalion & Helios quite well. I remember the creature that came out of Harker at the end of that story. All of this does connect with what's going on, so the story is consistent and is well written. Character growth is limited as the plot doesn't provide opportunity for them to change much. What builds for them in this story is the overwhelming sense of pending catastrophe.
I will be adding the next story to my TBR soon, to hopefully learn how everything comes to the apex.
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This book is an in-between in every sense. No real conflicts, save one small one, are resolved in this book. You come to the last pages as if you have the key to the door that leads to Apocalypse, but you can't find the keyhole. I suspect that the next novel will take off with a crash, but I miss having something unique to take from this book. I think it would be more rewarding if at least one of the threads had been resolved. I suppose the Randal Six arc was resolved, but not in a way that satisfies me. Instead, this is a book full of cliffhangers.
Admittedly, I have forgotten some of the base elements from the first novel. I do remember the two detectives, Ducalion & Helios quite well. I remember the creature that came out of Harker at the end of that story. All of this does connect with what's going on, so the story is consistent and is well written. Character growth is limited as the plot doesn't provide opportunity for them to change much. What builds for them in this story is the overwhelming sense of pending catastrophe.
I will be adding the next story to my TBR soon, to hopefully learn how everything comes to the apex.