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The Unnatural Inquirer (Nightside, Book 8) By Simon R. Green ( Ace Hardcover )
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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Product Description
Welcome to the Nightside, that secret square mile located in the dark heart of London where the sun never rises and people can fraternize with every myth and monster imaginable.
John Taylor is a P.I. with the special ability to locate anyone or anything. The Unnatural Inquirer, the Nightside's most notorious gossip rag, has offered him a million pounds to find a DVD purportedto contain an actual recording of the afterlife. John doesn't know if it's true, but someone-or something-thinks so, and will stop at nothing to possess the disc.
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 Super Reader ( bluetyson )
Taylor is back in fine form.
After an introductory altercation at Walker's request, with a man with a powerful artefact, John Taylor is put on the trail of a man who apparently has a DVD of evidence of the afterlife.
After this, Taylor (and succubus reporter sidekick from the Nightside tabloid that is employing him) go out and do what Taylor does best.
Green continues to come up with new and bizarre Nightside residents and visitors with cages for John to rattle.
As long as he can make it past the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Another good entry in the series.
3.5 out of 5
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 A somewhat weak return to Nightside ( bksrmgc )
THE UNNATURAL INQUIRER (Para. Mystery-John Taylor-Nightside) - G
Green, Simon R - 8th in series
Ace, 2008, US Hardcover - ISBN: 9780441015580
First Sentence: One of the many problems with working as a private eye, not counting all the many people who want to kill you, often for perfectly good reasons, is that you have to wait for the work to come to you.
PI John Taylor has been hired by Nightside's gossip newpaper, The Unnatural Inquirer. Pen Donavon, who claims to have received a television broadcast showing evidence of the Afterlife. Pen burned the broadcast to DVD, offered exclusive rights to the newspaper, and then disappeared. Taylor, with Inquirer reporter Bettie Divine by his side, is to find Donavon and the DVD.
There are a lot of other very dangerous and ugly beings after the disk and out to stop Taylor along the way.
There is a lot of very descriptive violence in this book. There is also humor and Green's outrageous imagination that keeps me coming back to the Nightside.
This was not my favorite of the series. Bettie is too mild a character to make her really interesting. Shotgun Susie only has a minor role and the other characters come and go so quickly, the book lacks the element of suspense and real horror which makes the offsetting humor work so well.
Even so, I shall still return to the Nightside.
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Becoming repetitive.
Green is always entretaining, but the last two books of the nightside felt like they were written at the same time and he just changed a few things. Basically the same plot, just the thing he was looking for changed. It is a shame because I have always enjoyed his books, hopefully he will give us something fresh next time.
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 Creepy and intriguing.
Hi,
I love Simon Green's Nightside series because he comes up with something ne all the time. This series is original and captivating, bring you head first into a place of crazy, creepy people. There are always suprises and John Taylor(aka the main character) is Wonderful and mysterious. Everything tends to connect during his books in the weirdest of ways and, sometimes, the good guy wins! :)
Hope you all enjoy!
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A fun short book ( jameshawthorne )
This was a good read, but like the rest of the series some what short. Nice for a good quick fun and exciting read. The romance was funny and entertaining.
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