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So, know what's more than a bit of a reading shock? Switching from Agatha Christie to Simon R. Green, because their sentence structure and sometimes word usage and phraseology are just similar enough to make me go "Agatha Christie, what did you just...oh, wait." (Though, uhm, Christie herself does make me go "Agatha Christie, did you just..." quite a bit. So much classism and xenophobia.)
Meanwhile, Green's Ghost of A Chance is...not that great, so far? The humor is really forced and it lacks the loving sense of macabre, and the writing and plot and characters read more like someone trying to write like Green but not really knowing how to properly channel the dark humor and shamelessness. Maybe he shouldn't try writing three separate urban fantasy series at once.