Books by Robert Kroese
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review 1: This book was hilarious. The author admits he owes a debt to Harry Harrison and you can definitely see the Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero peeking out, but he also borrows from across the humorous genre with a bit of Adams and even some Pratchett footnotes thrown i...
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review 1: Yes! Finally a book about funny angels, demons and humans. Some trying to avert the apocalypse, which was poorly planned to begin with, due to the bureaucratic nature of the universe.I like the part where a funny demon ransacks a humans apartment only to make it more tidy, cos it...
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review 1: This book was a good example of why sometimes it's best to resist the temptation to stretch things out into a trilogy. The first book in the series was a sprightly satire, wittily riffing on the foibles of bureaucracy. By the second installment, the theme was beginning to get te...
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review 1: A thoroughly enjoyable read. The second in the Mercury series has all the elements that made me love the first book so much. Humor, action and a very unique take on angels, demons and the possible end of the world.Robert Kroese has a wicked sense of humor and it doesn't let up ...
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review 1: A short, funny story featuring the wisecracking, free-spirited angel Mercury, who here is correcting a time anomaly. Mercury finds a saxophone player blasting out very good jazz music in an ancient world cave club, but according to the divine plan jazz isn't scheduled to come int...
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review 1: 5 StarsAfter having read books one and two I decided to read the two novellas that bring the beginnings of Mercury to light. This short read is hilarious. It is Mercury’s first assignment as an angel, he is to oversee and ensure the fall of Troy. This is the perfect companion rea...
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review 1: The quality is fair to middling in this one. I liked "Mercury Falls" and looked forward to this one as I knew Kroese would put a lot of sci-fi geekdom in it. But, with the exception of some very funny parts, this book really dragged for me. There were parts (like the Morlock & ...