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Dead Streets (2011)

by Tim Waggoner(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0007323875 (ISBN13: 9780007323876)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Angry Robot

series

Matt Richter

review 1: This book didn't start out so well, what with the repetition of descriptions almost verbatim from the first book and the short stories, but it's still pretty more-ish, like the first book. I read reviews of this when I was part-way through, for some reason, and had to laugh when someone said they wished Devona wasn't a character so it could get back to being a book like the rest of the "dick genre". Pretty apt way to put it, considering most private detectives have and are dicks, and even the ones I love can be very misogynistic. It's great that Matt has a girlfriend, and respects her, and works alongside her, and that they work through their issues.The plot itself got spoiled for me (by that same bad habit of mine of reading reviews looking for spoilers), so it wasn't sur... moreprising, but I thought it was reasonably well done -- building on things mentioned before in the first book and the short stories, and carrying a narrative forward. Bonus points because Devona is not a side-plot or side-character, she's centre-stage and involved in almost all the action.While I think Waggoner's writing can be pretty lazy, I'm sure I'm going to go on and read Dark War. It's a lot of fun.
review 2: Ok, first off, the writing in this book is better than Waggoner's first. Far fewer run on sentences, which made me really happy. Second of all, I enjoyed the Easter eggs throughout this novel. From references to Lovecraft, Rocky Horror, to the Grudge (I laughed out loud at that one), and so on, he hides them well, and I enjoyed how they were implemented. The storyline is good, though it does feel rushed from location to location to location. Not once do the main characters stay put for longer than a moment before being rushed to something else. It lends a nice sense of urgency to the novel, however it also makes for a feeling that you are being rushed around with too little time to enjoy the scenery. Anyway, a good read, and a very good followup to his first novel. less

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