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A brand-new series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightside novels!
The Carnacki Institute exists to "Do Something" about Ghosts-and agents JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer will either lay them to rest, send them packing, or kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses with extreme prejudice.
The Carnacki Institute exists to "Do Something" about Ghosts-and agents JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer will either lay them to rest, send them packing, or kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses with extreme prejudice.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I cannot be the only fan of Simon Green who is deeply disappointed by this book. It is a bit like reading Scooby Doo meets Ghostbusters. For a while I thought it was meant to be a juvenile novel, until I came across the first sexual reference and had to revise my ideas. It is a rambling tale of hauntings in the London Underground and their exorcism by a group of dysfunctional operatives working for a secret organisation operating out of Buckingham Palace. I could not work out if HM is supposed to be M. The book lacks the verve and sheer readability that the author achieves so well in Nightside and the Drood novels. I hope he sticks to these and does not try to turn this novel into a Ghostfinders series.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Before I start this review, I must point out that I do love Simon R. greens novels, usually, I buy everything he writes and read it from cover to cover and have loved them all, till now. I really hope Simon hasn't run out of ideas, because it really feels that way with this novel, the same old lines, the same old characters, right up to the guy who has every drug for every occasion. Green fans where have we read that before??
This story meanders on, with no real story or plot, just the same old thing we have read a hundred times in a Nightside, Deathstalker or Drood novel. An ancient evil, older than old, more powerful than us, pushing through the walls of space and time, yada yada yar! Been there done that! And the ending ... Really? Please! A creature so powerful it can bend our dimension to it's will and that's how it ends! I've had to get rid of Jehovah Witnesses that were tougher than that!
I wish Simon would just concentrate on the Nightside or Drood books, or even release another Hawk and fisher, because this is really one of those books without the oompf!
This story meanders on, with no real story or plot, just the same old thing we have read a hundred times in a Nightside, Deathstalker or Drood novel. An ancient evil, older than old, more powerful than us, pushing through the walls of space and time, yada yada yar! Been there done that! And the ending ... Really? Please! A creature so powerful it can bend our dimension to it's will and that's how it ends! I've had to get rid of Jehovah Witnesses that were tougher than that!
I wish Simon would just concentrate on the Nightside or Drood books, or even release another Hawk and fisher, because this is really one of those books without the oompf!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book was a huge disappointment. Simon Green usually writes engagingly and with strong, complex characterisation. However, I find it difficult to believe this was written by him or anyone who could claim to be an experienced writer. The writing is juvenile; the plot could have had possibilities but these were wasted; the characters were cardboard cut-outs poorly developed and the dialogue could have been better written by any senior secondary pupil studying English. This book would be an insult even to the teen reading audience, let alone a wider readership. Don't waste your money.
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Brilliant once again
Love Simon Green books and this lived up to expectations, once again another brilliant, fantastic read :) I never seem to be able to fault his books or put them down.......
Published 10 months ago by Nicola K
Terror on the tube
Fantasy and science fiction writer Simon R. Green turns to horror with the first in a new series of novels about a trio of ghost hunters. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Paul Tapner
Oh Dear !!!!
I love Simon R Green and have read all his books but if he writes another Ghostfinders I will not be buying it. Read more
Published 15 months ago by V. Dodd
worst book of green
i am a fan, i have read all his books, some i liked really a lot, some less but this is for sure the worst that i have read written by green
i don't know from where to start,... Read more
i don't know from where to start,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Luca Bazzea
If your a fan......
As a great Simon R. Green fan I was looking forward to a new book that would grab me like Blue Moon series or even the stand alone book that have come before. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mrs. A. S. Hayward
Dreadful - take me back to "the Nightside"
First Sentence: These days, ghosts turn up in the damnedest places.
Members of the Carnacki Institute JC Chance, team leader; Melody Chambers, scientist; and telepath... Read more
Members of the Carnacki Institute JC Chance, team leader; Melody Chambers, scientist; and telepath... Read more
Published 19 months ago by L. J. Roberts
Well I liked it
Green is a highly engaging professional storyteller who can sometimes keep a series going past its sell-by date which I feel has been happening with the Nightside books. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Ian Williams
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