Review: Grimm-Novel #1 The Icy Touch
The horrible murder of a Drangzorn leads Nick and Hank to a criminal organization, called The Icy Touch. The members are Wesen, and the are threaten other Wesen into the organization. If you won't work for them, you will die a horrible death. While both detectives trying to figure out, how to deal with it, the next victim is hit hard into Monroe's
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Well, my guess ist, like what I'd written, John Shirley got some background material from NBC, as he also mentions the great cooperation with NBC in his credits. But he never was interested, found the time, whatever to actually WATCH at least one episode. The Icy Touch seems to have been written this way. He had no idea WHAT a Grimm is, he had no idea about the different relationships or characteristice of the different Wesen-species. For example the Drangzorn: Oh, yeah, in the profile is written, Drangzorns are good in building tunnels. That they have also a dangerous temper obviously not. So, Drangzorns are limited within the novel to poor victims and slaves, unable to fight for themselves, absolutely frightened by a Daemonfeuer (about that guy I'd written in the review). I doubt that any Drangzorn would let himself getting terrorized by a Daemonfeuer, they would probably feast on one after cooking him in his own fire.
Well, a good written AU is a good story. But this wasn't even an AU. This was an example for an ordered work going wrong - and I've no idea how this novel could have made it through the approval. Someone at NBC obviously had forgotten his reading-glasses - or is an illiteratte at all.
Thing is, the novel IS good, but it's not a tie-in, simple fact.
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