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A review by standardman
Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman
4.0
This took me a while but only because I got distracted, no fault of the book.
I find the period of World War I (and its fiction) inherently less interesting than Victorian England so this had to battle for my initial engagement.
Once the period of wanting to look up all the characters and references passed (curse of the meta novel), I found myself engaged with the characters and how natural the setting felt for monsters winged and otherwise.
No-one spins other people's fiction and history into something fresh like Kim Newman. Whether battle scene or breakfast scene, he smartly builds world and character without having you feel the strings.
I find the period of World War I (and its fiction) inherently less interesting than Victorian England so this had to battle for my initial engagement.
Once the period of wanting to look up all the characters and references passed (curse of the meta novel), I found myself engaged with the characters and how natural the setting felt for monsters winged and otherwise.
No-one spins other people's fiction and history into something fresh like Kim Newman. Whether battle scene or breakfast scene, he smartly builds world and character without having you feel the strings.