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"Sparky inventiveness and lickety-spit pace." (DAILY TELEGRAPH )
"Sharp-edged, violent. It's a measure of Devereux's skill as a writer that you find yourself rooting for his protagonist." (David V Barrett FORTEAN TIMES )
"A great fun read, with a lot of sex and violence to keep you turning the pages." (David J Howe SHIVERS ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Sharp-edged, violent. It's a measure of Devereux's skill as a writer that you find yourself rooting for his protagonist." (David V Barrett FORTEAN TIMES )
"A great fun read, with a lot of sex and violence to keep you turning the pages." (David J Howe SHIVERS ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
David V Barrett, FORTEAN TIMES
"Sharp-edged, violent. It's a measure of Devereux's skill as a writer that you find yourself rooting for his protagonist."
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4.0 out of 5 stars
English Harry Dresden with an evil twist,
By Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog "Falcata T... - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Hunter's Moon (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
A Supernatural tale where finally we get a British Harry Dresden with one major change, Jack is a guy who is a man with no morals, a man who believes in completing the job any which way you can and isn't averse to sacrificing alternate agents to the completion of his goal, with methods including assassination and also torture he's an equal opportunity guy who throws the occasional bone to other services in order to gain a favour later.
Whilst many really couldn't fall in love with this type of character he is a man who really has been missing from the genre in my opinion as I'm getting fed up with goody two-shoes who never have a thought darker than how best to achieve the goal without hurting anyone. It really doesn't work that way, here we have an absolute bastard who has no problems being as dark as what he faces, in fact, the only "people" that he treats with any respect are some ghosts, showing that although he has problems with the living the dead are another matter. A tale that many won't enjoy but if you're after a darker supernatural tale set in the UK then give this a go, you'll more than likely enjoy it. However that said there are some sexual themes within the novel and as such make it unsuitable for the younger audience.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sparkling talent, and superb pacing,
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This review is from: Hunter's Moon (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
The occult thriller is an easy form, if you're a lazy writer unwilling to think through the logic of your plot. Doing it well is hard: managing the interaction of supernatural and real worlds, while allowing your characters to work in both is difficult. Devereux does it very well indeed.
His authorial tools are deceptively simple. A calm, deadpan narrative style, echoing Tim Dorsey and Louise Welsh. A central character who accepts that he's unpleasant - a killer in the service of his country - but knows that that's required by the job. And the basic but unfashionable method of sparse, concise writing, getting his story into no more pages than it needs. Some publishers would have insisted on this book being "filled out" or "backstory added" to 500-plus pages; it is greatly to Gollancz's credit that they allowed Devereux to tell it in 272. Not that it feels that long. Devereux has a truly remarkable control of narrative pace; the last time I read a first novel with such superb control of the pace of events was The Hunt for Red October. Action, reaction, deduction, recovery - all this is handled in less space than it takes to write about it. We are seeing a real talent emerging here. Keep an eye on him.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Supernatural derring do with nasty twists,
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This review is from: Hunter's Moon (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)
This book reminded me very much what James Bond might have been like if written by HP Lovecraft. Or perhaps if Ian Fleming had written At the Mountains of Madness.
The protagonist, a magician we only know as Jack, works for a branch of Government so secret that even he doesn't know what it's called. His job - to hunt down users of magic who might have evil designs on the State . His tools - knife, gun, plastic explosive and a rather unpleasant book of Latin spells. The corners he gets into - deeply unpleasant. It's a rattling story with many twists and turns but not much subtlety in the plot. Entertaining, but overall I prefer Charles Stross's Laundry series. Also in places a bit explicity for my taste, but each to their own.
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