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Yesterday's Hero (2012)

by Jonathan Wood(Favorite Author)
3.79 of 5 Votes: 4
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review 1: I don't know if this is a trend or not, but a number of UK authors have done novels that strike me as the Office meets urban fantasy - first and foremost is, of course, Charles Stross' Laundry novels. Mr. Wood's "Hero" novels fits perfectly within this trend. Hero's hero (say that 10 times fast) is a very competent police officer with a minor inferiority complex (I place the blame on too many Hollywood movies a la Kurt Russell) who has been drafted into M137 (Wood's Laundry) to do battle with the things that go bump in the night (in this case Soviet era Russian wizards). This book, and this series in general, is at its best when it deals with the hero's fish out of water view of the world and his relationships with his co-workers. Mr. Wood's supernatural world, however,... more is kind of boring an un-fleshed out. Why was M137 set up? Why is it treated so poorly by the bureaucracy? Are there any normalized relationships with supernatural beings? vampires? werewolves? non-governmental wizards?I enjoyed it for what it was. If Dresden is Philip Marlowe, Hellequin is Bond, and Quill is Steve McGarret, Arthur Wallace is very much a Kurt Russell kind of cop.
review 2: You know how thriller movies have "Hollywood physics"?There's also what I can only call "Hollywood human biology". You know, where people get repeatedly flung through the air by massive explosions and smashed into concrete walls, or beaten up, or dragged along the ground, and each time they're in pain for about 30 seconds and then carry on? Instead of being hospitalized for six weeks with ruptured internal organs and multiple fractures, and then unable to use their limbs properly for a year?This book has Hollywood human biology. Lots and lots and lots of it.It's an OK thriller, without a great many copy editing errors, and the plot moves right along. But it's basically an action movie in text form. If that's what you're looking for, it delivers. less
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Patdougl
This book fell apart in the later part of the middle, but it did end up making sense after all.
windy87
I hope there's going to be another book I liked the Dry Humor
anamaria_2210
I love this series. Lots of action, humor and Kurt Russel!
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