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Unnatural Acts (2012)

by Kevin J. Anderson(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0758277369 (ISBN13: 9780758277367)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Kensington

series

Dan Shamble, Zombie PI

review 1: Once again, Kevin Anderson explores a world that has released the dark-side creatures of the night. Vampires, Ghosts, Poltergeist (a ghost that can manipulate objects), werewolves, witches, and all sorts of monsters, ready to be investigated by Zombie Private Eye, Dan Chambeaux (kidding pronounced Shambles)...The reader is treated to a really humorous novel. In fact, at times, Anderson is so busy with the humor that he forgets that he is writing a mystery. Not that this is so bad, but it is almost frustrating to see the melodramatic overkill in the mystery. Still, this is like an episode of the Munsters, but funnier...I'm enjoying this series, but could have done without the final chapter-- even though it deals with the relationship betweeen Cheyenne (Shy Anne) and Dan..... more. Sorry, I know it was supposed to be funny and poignant at the same time, but I just thought it was silly.I'll keep reading this series, just because it is fun.. Though I'm wondering how Shambles can feel anything... He's reanimated and has to keep seeing the mortician to keep from falling apart, but he drinks beer and coffee-- if he is dead, how does his system deal with waste... I'm overthinking it.. but the series is fun! Lowbrow at times, but fun.
review 2: Today’s post is on Unnatural Acts by Kevin J. Anderson. It is the second in his Dan Shamble series and 325 pages long including a sample of the third book. The plot is told from the first person point of view of the main character Dan Shamble. The cover has Dan and Sheyenne together with a Shakespeare play going on in the background. The intended reader is someone likes funny novels making fun of fantasy and urban fantasy tropes. If you liked the first novel you will like this one too. There is no sex, mild language, and the violence is pretty funny. There Be Spoilers Ahead.From the back of the book- To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead. In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up- to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff. When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark- condemning the troupe’s “unnatural” lifestyles- Dan smell something rotten. And is something smells rotten to a zombie, you’re in serious trouble…Before his way of life, er, death, is destroyed, Dan wants answers. Along the way he needs to provide security for a mummified Madame, defend a mixed- race couple (he’s a vampire, she’s a werewolf) from housing discrimination, and save his favorite watering hole, the Goblin Tavern, from drying up. Throw in a hairy hitman, a necro-maniac, and a bank robber who walks through walls, and Dan Shamble’s plate is full. Maybe this time, the zombie detective has bitten off more than can chew…Review- I had so much fun reading this book. It is funny, clever, and has good characters. I was reading five chapters of this book as a reward to myself as I read one of my nonfiction books about a pretty horrifying topic so I needed all the laughs that I could get. This novel picks up pretty soon after the end of the first one so you do not have to do much catch up and can just jump right into the story. The clients are just as wacky, the case themselves just as weird, and Dan just as funny as the first novel. One of the funny gags in this novel is that the witches from the first are now ghostwriting, with the help of a vampire, the adventures of Dan Shamble zombie P.I. and I hope to read some of that in the next book. If you are looking for a laugh or urban fantasy series that does not take itself or anything too seriously then try this one. I personally love it.I give this book a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this book with my own money. less

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