Dr. DOA

Somehow, I think I've fallen off the Simon Green bandwagon. All the usual Green stuff was there, but it felt like I'd heard it all before. There's a pretty decent plot in here, and some good action sequences, but the characters don't really grab me.......more

Simon Green is not the best urban fantasy author out there, but he is certainly one of the most consistent. His Nightside, Ghost Finders and Secret Histories novels are rarely astounding, but are always entertaining, fast and fun. This, the tenth Secret Histories novel, is no exception. First, the do......more

Meh. Maybe I'm just getting tired of the Droods. When this series was first started it seemed to be about this interesting supernatural spy Shaman Bond. I liked Shaman. Then Eddie started getting lazy and instead of using Shaman's wits he started just falling back on Eddie's invincible armor. In my......more

Tenth in the Secret Histories espionage urban fantasy series and revolving around Eddie Drood, from a family of secret agents out saving the world from aliens…and things that go bump in the night. My Take Green is crazy. He’s gotta be with that imagination he has! And it always surprises me how incred......more

Aggh! Why would you do that?? Talk about leaving the poor reader hanging in the middle of the plot at the end of the book! Seems I’ve worked out what the ‘R’ stands for in the author’s name: Simon “Really-never-met-a-cliff-hanger-I-didn’t-like” Green There was almost a literary lambasting, until I real......more