From Hell With Love by Simon R. Green

[meganbmoore]

I bought this automatically when it came out, then read the jacket description and didn’t touch it for weeks, despite knowing that it probably was a case of false advertising.

It’s been left up to me, Eddie Drood, acting head of the family, to figure out whodunit. And that’s not going to be very easy. You see, opinion is divided evenly between two camps of thought: those who think my best girl, Molly, was actually the killer and those who think I was actually the killer.

And I know for a fact that I didn’t do it.

I mean, I know I’m always captivated by stories that sell themselves by telling me that men are suspecting their girlfriends of being murderers they’ll have to take down. Thankfully, the plot as presented is basically…anti-Simon R. Green, and pretty out of character for his protagonists, and what (misrepresented) bit of that is gone in, like, the first 60 pages. Stupid marketing.

So yes, there is murder. And secret societies. And dragons. And badassness. And Eddie acquiring interesting pets. And evil immortals who die surprisingly easily. There was more Molly than in the previous book, but still not enough. Aside from the ending (which makes me think SRG has been chatting with Jim Butcher) it’s fairly typical SRG, which means it’s light on light on characterization and unified plot, and big on entertainment and twists.

Comments

[jibrailis]

Ah, SGR. He's my guilty pleasure read. His books aren't necessarily good per se, but I find them wildly entertaining and imaginative, so I keep on trucking.