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This is like the American version of Simon Green without the complexity and original characters. I enjoyed this book but it was very uneven. Sometimes events were serious and intense or even realistically funny and other times the action and characters felt slapstick and two dimensional or like an old time superhero comic book. There were a number of puns and one-liners that felt like they belonged in a parody not a novel.
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Simon falls in love way too easily. The man he hates does good thi ...more
The Bad
Simon falls in love way too easily. The man he hates does good thi ...more
The first half of this book is awesome: funny, quirky, interesting. But the second half... It feels like it's written by someone else. The author suddenly uses phrases like "I threw up in my mouth a little" or "we exchanged a WTF look." I mean, huh. I really liked Simon, Connor, the Inspectre and Irene, even Wesker was funny with his acerbic sense of humor. But Jane... If there's a poster girl for a stereotypical blondie, it's her: gorgeous and cute but with empty space where her brain should be
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Slow start, but once I got past the first few chapters I found myself caught up in the story. Simons power is is quite interesting, and I enjoyed the DEA parts.
Feb 10, 2009
Shannon
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Jun 17, 2010
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