2006 Reading List - Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Book Seventy
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green
Oh good, I don't have to find Simon and kill him.
As I mentioned in the other reviews, the Nightside series has been coming to a head. There's blood and carnage and betrayal, and the end of the world is most definitely nigh. I was worried that I would have to find some way to buy the book that's coming out this month if I wanted to find out how the story ended. It was pretty clear that the arc would end either in this book or the next one, and I was seriously hoping it would be this one.
And it is. So, that's all good then.
John Taylor has been to the past and he's been to the future, and the more he knows, the worse things seem to get. His estranged mother is back, and with her will come the utter destruction of the Nightside, and probably the world. No-one can stop it - not the mysterious Authorities, not the gods or demons or even the God-appointed overseer of Nightside, the Lord of Thorns. It is, in every way that matters, a hopeless case with no way out.
And that's the kind of situation in which John Taylor thrives.
He has one chance to save the city, to save the world. And in the great tradition of all the best anti-heroes, he doesn't figure he'll live to see his city saved.
This ends the arc of the impending destruction of the Nightside, and it's been a fun ride. Like I said, Green's writing is most fun when he's destroying and killing people - he has a very good talent for making everyone's death meaningful in some way, no matter who they were. And since a good many people die in this book, his writing shines....
I'll probably pick up the newest book at some point, but there's no rush right now. Thankfully....
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green
Oh good, I don't have to find Simon and kill him.
As I mentioned in the other reviews, the Nightside series has been coming to a head. There's blood and carnage and betrayal, and the end of the world is most definitely nigh. I was worried that I would have to find some way to buy the book that's coming out this month if I wanted to find out how the story ended. It was pretty clear that the arc would end either in this book or the next one, and I was seriously hoping it would be this one.
And it is. So, that's all good then.
John Taylor has been to the past and he's been to the future, and the more he knows, the worse things seem to get. His estranged mother is back, and with her will come the utter destruction of the Nightside, and probably the world. No-one can stop it - not the mysterious Authorities, not the gods or demons or even the God-appointed overseer of Nightside, the Lord of Thorns. It is, in every way that matters, a hopeless case with no way out.
And that's the kind of situation in which John Taylor thrives.
He has one chance to save the city, to save the world. And in the great tradition of all the best anti-heroes, he doesn't figure he'll live to see his city saved.
This ends the arc of the impending destruction of the Nightside, and it's been a fun ride. Like I said, Green's writing is most fun when he's destroying and killing people - he has a very good talent for making everyone's death meaningful in some way, no matter who they were. And since a good many people die in this book, his writing shines....
I'll probably pick up the newest book at some point, but there's no rush right now. Thankfully....