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A review by frostling
The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks
3.0
The heroes of the first book “The Travellers” are back for new adventures against the Brethen/Tabula - the organization that wants to control the world.
Both factions go through 509 pages of various ups and downs. Sadly, once the very first scene is gone, it takes about 200 pages to read some real action and reach a faster pace. Before that, the story plods along between America, England and Germany.
On the plus side, the splicers (a cross between a baboon and a dog), the Harlequin culture (as irritating as it is) and astral travels make their customary return. They are after all the trilogy’s trademark. They also differentiate these books from the “Da Vinci Code” to which the Fourth Realm is often seems to be compared. to But then these days any novel that ventures into ‘secret’ symbols of history receives a “New DVC” label on its cover ;-).
The Dark River is not a bad read, but you have to be pretty addicted to its characters to follow them through this new books, knowing full well that you’ll be left with a cliff-hanger until the next instalment is published.
In the same vein, I preferred “The Straw Men” by Michael Marshall Smith
Both factions go through 509 pages of various ups and downs. Sadly, once the very first scene is gone, it takes about 200 pages to read some real action and reach a faster pace. Before that, the story plods along between America, England and Germany.
On the plus side, the splicers (a cross between a baboon and a dog), the Harlequin culture (as irritating as it is) and astral travels make their customary return. They are after all the trilogy’s trademark. They also differentiate these books from the “Da Vinci Code” to which the Fourth Realm is often seems to be compared. to But then these days any novel that ventures into ‘secret’ symbols of history receives a “New DVC” label on its cover ;-).
The Dark River is not a bad read, but you have to be pretty addicted to its characters to follow them through this new books, knowing full well that you’ll be left with a cliff-hanger until the next instalment is published.
In the same vein, I preferred “The Straw Men” by Michael Marshall Smith