Something From the Nightside

[artemismuse]

 I've just read an absolutely awful book called Something from the Nightside by Simon R Green, and I must share my assessment of it with you. Mr. Green is under the mistaken impression that he is Neil Gaiman writing Neverwhere, but with far less subtlety. In fact, Mr Green has the subtlety of a brick. He also seems to deal in oxymorons, such as

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[armadillogoddes]

find her daughter hiding out in a house that is actually a carnivorous alien from outer space masquerading as a house, fall in love, can't escape the house-not-house, discover Joanna is actually not real and was created as a faceless-man-trap all along, rescue her daughter-not-daughter... and live weirdly-dysfunctionally ever after. Oh, and there's a trip to a killer-bug-infested future...

Wow... I wouldn't have thought it possible, but that book sounds even worse and crazier than it did over the phone. o_O Carnivorous aliens from outer space that masquerade as houses just cannot be done well... (maybe this is that author's theory on what the house in House of Leaves was...) Plus I'm usually against mingling aliens and magic in the same book just in general. Too many elements unless you really know what you're doing.

And the killer-bugs? Just... why?

[la_belle_dame]

OMG, you are hilariousness incarnate. "Under the impression he's Neil Gaiman" is the best review I've ever read. Now, I need a massive update about what has been going on in your life. Go!