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Naming Of The Beasts (2000)

by Mike Carey(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0748112146 (ISBN13: 9780748112142)

languge

English

genre

Horror

series

Felix Castor

review 1: I love Mike Carey's comic book work, particularly on The Unwritten and Lucifer, but it took a while to really warm to his prose. Not sure why - well, part of it was that the old sub-editor in me wanted to tighten things up here and there. And there was the fact that I was starting with book three, which is the sort of thing I do way too often. And initially Felix Castor seems to bear a striking resemblance to John Constantine, who Caret has also written, but this feeling dissipates as the book goes on and, in fact, he's very much his own man. Certainly, I will be going back to the earlier volumes.
review 2: Well I had to finish this series, which is pretty blatantly a novelization of John Constantine Hellblazer, with some little twists. It's cheap reading, but ... morenot terrible writing. This book wasn't the greatest of the series. While there was plenty of action, it never really felt so exciting. I'd almost say it felt anticlimactic the whole way through. I may not have expected so much from it, it being a quick guilty pleasure read, but some of the other books were at least more enjoyable. All the books do that annoying thing where they rehash How Things Work in this world, which is necessary to a point but overdone here, as it might be done in a serialized comic book. less

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