Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1)

Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1) Review

John Taylor is nominally a private eye whose talent is finding things, but his talent only works in "the nightside", the hidden dark heart of London, England. A classy businesswoman approaches him for help finding her daughter who just happens to have run away to the nightside. The two set off on a trek into the nightside in search of the missing daughter, incidentally introducing the reader to the people, landmarks, rules, and rulers of the place. Their quest requires them to face a number of perils, including one that strongly recalls the movie "Monster House" (which post-dates the novel by three years).

While the book explores a lot of well-trod territory, trotting out far too many film noir PI tropes and jokes and looking like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files in a number of specifics, it has some of its own charms. In particular, the denizens of Green's nightside are not vampires, werewolves, witches, demons, or any of the usual array of magical creatures that are so overused in contemporary fantasy (although these may appear in later books -- I've just read the one). If you can get beyond the stilted, cliched neo-noir voice that dominates the first third of this short and quickly-read book, you will probably enjoy it.

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• ISBN13: 9780441010653
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Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1) Overview

John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.

For John Taylor, there's no place like home...

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