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"It's hard to say if this singular novel, which boasts a wicked sense of humour to round off the horror, should be eligible for an Edgar Award or a Bram Stoker, or both." -- Elliot Swanson, Booklist "[Nekropolis] is an atmospheric and exciting mystery." -- SF Site "An up-and-comer who's worthy of the hype... Tim Waggoner is well on his way to being proclaimed horror fiction's leading surrealist." -- Cemetery Dance
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Meet Matt Richter. Private Eye. Zombie. Meet Matt Richter. Private Eye. Zombie. His mean streets are the city of the dead, the shadowy realm known as Nekropolis. This place has always been ruled by the vampire lords. Now they're planning to destroy the city. Over his dead body. More pulp than Pulp Fiction, more butt-kicking than Buffy, Nekropolis is the first in a deathly new series. FILE UNDER: Urban Fantasy [Zombie Detective / Undead City / Crime Overload / Sexy Vampires]
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cross between a role playing game and Chandleresque novel,
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This review is from: Nekropolis: The Matt Richter Series, Book I (Hardcover)
It is a strange hybrid between the Chandleresque detective novel - hard boiled ex cop goes around detecting away, accompanied by a sexy Femme Fatale. Only as our detective is a decaying zombie he cannot really take advantage of her charms. And she is no noir heroine being too nice at heart. If it was written by a Brit the characters would have been much nastier. As it is our hero and heroine are unadulteratedly nice. They never do anything bad - even though they live in the city of Nekropolis - home to all sorts of badness.
The tour of the city of Nekropolis with the various challenges faced by our plucky duo is where it feels like a role playing game - like bish bash bosh, NEXT baddie please. Entertaining though - the author's note at the end said that more was to come after the many years since the novel was originally written - and I would be interested to see what the follow ups actually read like.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dead Men Do Wear Plaid,
By Sam "samueltyler" (Reading, Berkshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nekropolis: The Matt Richter Series, Book I (Hardcover)
Cities that I would like to visit in my lifetime include New York, Madrid, and Sydney. One place that will never make its way onto my list is Nekropolis the home to Tim Waggoner's handily named `Nekropolis'. Told from the point of view of Matt Richter, Zombie PI, it is as much a story of a stolen magical artefact, as it is an introduction to Nekropolis itself. The first book in a series is always hard to pull off; an author needs to introduce so many new characters and places that a reader can turn off. This is why established characters and books based in existing IPs do so well - why learn something new when you can get on with the story? Something new is worth learning, when it is as excellent as `Nekropolis'.
The Angry Robot version of Waggoner's `Nekropolis' is an extended cut of a book he produced 10 years ago. The core story is classic Private Investigator Noir; a gumshoe and femme fatale go on the hunt together. It just so happens that this well realised noir couple are in a world of monsters. Simon R Green's `Nightside' world is in many ways similar to Waggoner's Nekropolis, but whilst Green's writing is confusing, Waggoner is able to portray his world in vivid detail and make it understandable. The central narrative is not the strongest thing in `Nekropolis' and acts as a means of introducing the world. Several locations are all touched upon and hint at exciting developments in future books. At times you feel you are on a whistle stop tour of locations, but you can forgive the author as the new characters you are introduced to are all interesting and ripe with possibilities. The character of Richter himself is a great foil for the chaos and darkness of Nekropolis; he is the reluctant White Knight. On their own, many elements of `Nekropolis' are cliché, but joined together by a talented writer like Waggoner makes them a joy. This is obviously Book 1 in what will hopefully be a long and successful series to rival the likes of Jim Butcher. I look forward to more in depth studies on different locations and characters within Nekropolis, whilst upholding the high quality writing. Sammy Recommendation
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
By Book Chick City (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nekropolis: The Matt Richter Series, Book I (Hardcover)
I have wanted to read this book since August last year when I bought it because of the awesome cover. But as we all know, we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover (although we all do) but we hope that the story is as good as it's visual counterpart. Unfortunately this wasn't the case with Nekropolis.
I'm so disappointed to say that Nekropolis didn't live up to it's awesome cover or premise. I expected a hard-boiled detective with an intriguing mystery to solve. Instead It was a very light, very long read. Too light for the urban fantasy I enjoy reading and just too long to keep me consistently engaged. It took me fifteen days to finish. The writing is good enough and flows well, and it's very easy reading, but sadly it just didn't contain enough edge for me. The main character, Matt Ritcher, is a self-willed zombie private eye who lives in Nekropolis, a city on a planet far away from Earth, which can only be accessed by an enchanted mirror. I was expecting him to be dark and tortured (he is a zombie after all), instead I got the most nicest zombie ever written. Ritcher is just too nice! He doesn't swear, he's very polite and he never loses his rag - I'm not saying that there has to be lots of profanity or violence in my books because that's not the case at all, but I do like my protagonists in urban fantasy to have some grit, a back story that I want to delve into to find out more about that character. I want them to have charisma. With Ritcher there was nothing, other than he used to be a cop and used to be married. Maybe I just like my boys bad. Devona, Ritcher's half-human, half-vampire sidekick/love interest wasn't really that much better. She was either cowering behind Ritcher like a weakling or ripping the throat out of a humungous beast. This woman didn't know whether she was kick-arse or totally pathetic. I didn't warm to her at all and the relationship between the two wasn't electric enough. It was all rather bland. In their quest to find who stole the Dawnstone there was a lot of running from one person to ask a few questions before running on to the next, but there wasn't really any action. There were too many characters to contend with to get a sense of who they were and I was saturated by too many descriptions of weird and wacky creatures that inhabited Nekropolis. The creatures were fun to a point but I felt they were just thrown together to create a world different from Earth but without too much effort: 'Chiranha', a hybrid of the dog breed chihuahua and piranha fish and 'Patchwork', a man made out of cloth with buttons for eyes (??) and although they were certainly wacky combinations they weren't really out-of-this world in terms of imagination. Verdict: I am so disappointed as I only wanted positive reviews for my 'Men of Urban Fantasy' week, but unfortunately this book just didn't work for me. I honestly thought I would love it: urban fantasy, zombies, a mystery to solve, vampires - it sounded just like my kind of read, but I didn't connect with the characters or their story. I rated Nekropolis 6/10 as although for me it was more 5/5 (take it or leave it) I probably would recommend to those that prefer their urban fantasy on the lighter side which bumped it to a six.
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