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A review by boyblue
The Ninth Circle by Alex Bell
1.0
The idea had promise. The execution took that promise and broke it slowly on a rack for the entire length of the book.
Picked it up at a book fair. I had just been to Budapest so was keen to read something set there and the blurb sounded interesting. Shouldn't have done that.
The description of the city was ok but the book should be confined to the ninth circle of hell because of the truly boring main character. The promise of the blurb is that he's possibly an angel. He ends up being as dumb as a brick and has two fights scenes which he gets so upset about you wish he had of lost. In fact I think he would have been better replaced by that brick I said he was less intelligent than. I won't tell you if he's actually an angel or not, or about what should essentially be the armageddon conflict at the end which really involves about 4-5 people not legions of demons and angels. What makes this book even worse is that the auxiliary characters are pretty damn boring too, especially considering what they're supposed to be.
Lastly, if I ever read the words, "he opened another bottle of expensive red wine" again. I'll poke my own eyeballs out. Continuously drinking expensive wine is not characterisation, that's laziness. Make them enjoy Chianti like Hannibal, or wine from a particular region but don't make me read a whole book where they keep drinking wine that is notable only for it's price.
Picked it up at a book fair. I had just been to Budapest so was keen to read something set there and the blurb sounded interesting. Shouldn't have done that.
The description of the city was ok but the book should be confined to the ninth circle of hell because of the truly boring main character. The promise of the blurb is that he's possibly an angel. He ends up being as dumb as a brick and has two fights scenes which he gets so upset about you wish he had of lost. In fact I think he would have been better replaced by that brick I said he was less intelligent than. I won't tell you if he's actually an angel or not, or about what should essentially be the armageddon conflict at the end which really involves about 4-5 people not legions of demons and angels. What makes this book even worse is that the auxiliary characters are pretty damn boring too, especially considering what they're supposed to be.
Lastly, if I ever read the words, "he opened another bottle of expensive red wine" again. I'll poke my own eyeballs out. Continuously drinking expensive wine is not characterisation, that's laziness. Make them enjoy Chianti like Hannibal, or wine from a particular region but don't make me read a whole book where they keep drinking wine that is notable only for it's price.