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S'està carregant… The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Bobby Dollar, #1) (edició 2012)de Tad Williams
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. That is definitely not my kind of book. But... sometimes for me it is all just about some elements and this book have it. Yes, that someone. Someone in the book that is just enough to finish, like and put next in queue. Sometimes I just need to know what will happen to some characters. I mean if not for that one particular character I would just walk away right from the middle. This is so simple that I fear for my taste in women.
For me Tad Williams sits right up there with the very best fantasy story-tellers... Pertany a aquestes sèriesBobby Dollar (1) Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsDAW Book Collectors (1599) Contingut a
Bobby Dollar, an angel who has taken part in the long battle between Heaven and Hell, must figure out why there are suddenly an unprecedented number of souls missing from both sides and who summoned a Babylonian demon to kill him. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Bobby was okay as an MC/narrator, but he's not the best character. He's a bit of a misogynist, though he probably doesn't think of himself that way. He's afraid of commitment with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Monica, and completely blows her off after a booty call one night. He then falls for a demon named Caz, the Countess of Cold Hands, a woman we come to learn later in the story, had been horribly abused by multiple men in her life, including her husband, who she eventually killed, which sent her to Hell in the afterlife. Bobby, of course, does little to comfort her, not entirely trusting her, since she is a demon, but that doesn't stop him from sleeping with her. The whole relationship left a bad taste in my mouth because it could have been more nuanced and interesting. Not what I typically expect from Tad Williams.
The story moved along a bit slowly, and the revelation at the end wasn't all that surprising. The story also ends with numerous unfulfilled plot lines, presumably to continue in the next book. I will probably read the next book, but hopefully it will be better than this one. ( )