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A review by tintendrache
The Nosferatu Scroll by James Becker
3.0
Mind you: I only read the fourth book, because my parents bought it for me in England and thought I might like it.
Which I did. To my own surprise, I must add, so: Sorry, Mr. Becker, I underestimated you and judged your book before I started reading it.
Here is what I expected: The book was written at the end of the 20th century. And it has a male, police-man protagonist.
I thought that I would get a looot of: All the women are sexy but stupid, and the protagonist is a broken, pseudo-nice hero-type guy. The story would be okayish but probably boring.
That's not true! I honestly have no idea how the women looked because they didn't have much description (which is good!). And they were far from stupid. Angela, the female half-protagonist, was surprisingly intelligent and strongwilled. After she was kidnapped, she first of all tried to gain as much information as possible, asked questions and was clever enough not to provoke her kidnappers which is such. An. Annoying. Trope.
Bronson was actually REALLY nice and definitly not the perfect with everything guy. He admitted that he was only an average shooter (and that was actually shown in the novel) and relied more on brains than on muscles. He wasn't the one and only hero of the day but I won't spoil anything.
The story itself had some interesting, inspiring details which I enjoyed. The beginning was extremly catching but got a bit boring around the mid. Which is the biggest reason for the 3-star-rating.
The writing style was okay and good enough to read.
Overall a nice read. Not something for fans of great action or a VERY surprising story, but I still enjoyed reading it and might take a look into the first books of the series!
Which I did. To my own surprise, I must add, so: Sorry, Mr. Becker, I underestimated you and judged your book before I started reading it.
Here is what I expected: The book was written at the end of the 20th century. And it has a male, police-man protagonist.
I thought that I would get a looot of: All the women are sexy but stupid, and the protagonist is a broken, pseudo-nice hero-type guy. The story would be okayish but probably boring.
That's not true! I honestly have no idea how the women looked because they didn't have much description (which is good!). And they were far from stupid. Angela, the female half-protagonist, was surprisingly intelligent and strongwilled. After she was kidnapped, she first of all tried to gain as much information as possible, asked questions and was clever enough not to provoke her kidnappers which is such. An. Annoying. Trope.
Bronson was actually REALLY nice and definitly not the perfect with everything guy. He admitted that he was only an average shooter (and that was actually shown in the novel) and relied more on brains than on muscles. He wasn't the one and only hero of the day but I won't spoil anything.
The story itself had some interesting, inspiring details which I enjoyed. The beginning was extremly catching but got a bit boring around the mid. Which is the biggest reason for the 3-star-rating.
The writing style was okay and good enough to read.
Overall a nice read. Not something for fans of great action or a VERY surprising story, but I still enjoyed reading it and might take a look into the first books of the series!