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The Wrong Goodbye
by Chris Holm, Chris F. Holm
Excuse me whilst I say meh to this series.
The second in the Collector series is as frustrating as the first. Sam Thornton is an interesting character with a good narrative voice, the scenario of a man who made a deal with a demon for his soul ending up collecting souls for eternity works for me too but the stories are just so much magnolia.
The word that sprung to mind again and again whilst reading was perfunctory, scene after scene of perfunctory events just to provide obstacles without furthering the plot or the character's development. It might be straight out of ancient literature but IT'S BORING!
And boy does the author love to describe his imaginary creations in great depth. As the man says, "try not to write the parts that people will skip anyway" and boy did I have to resist skipping pages at a time with this one.
As with the first book Holm created interesting sidekick characters only to use them essentially as filler, except this time they were much more interesting people than the protagonist and merely served to highlight what a total dick Sam Thornton is. The author states in his afterword that the intention is that Sam would always act with the best of intentions but if that's the case in The Wrong Goodbye his best intentions are all completely selfish and something tells me that the two are not entirely compatible.
It's not a bad book it's merely a serviceable popular fiction urban fantasy noir with a really great cover.
The second in the Collector series is as frustrating as the first. Sam Thornton is an interesting character with a good narrative voice, the scenario of a man who made a deal with a demon for his soul ending up collecting souls for eternity works for me too but the stories are just so much magnolia.
The word that sprung to mind again and again whilst reading was perfunctory, scene after scene of perfunctory events just to provide obstacles without furthering the plot or the character's development. It might be straight out of ancient literature but IT'S BORING!
And boy does the author love to describe his imaginary creations in great depth. As the man says, "try not to write the parts that people will skip anyway" and boy did I have to resist skipping pages at a time with this one.
As with the first book Holm created interesting sidekick characters only to use them essentially as filler, except this time they were much more interesting people than the protagonist and merely served to highlight what a total dick Sam Thornton is. The author states in his afterword that the intention is that Sam would always act with the best of intentions but if that's the case in The Wrong Goodbye his best intentions are all completely selfish and something tells me that the two are not entirely compatible.
It's not a bad book it's merely a serviceable popular fiction urban fantasy noir with a really great cover.