Review: An Action Filled Thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
This is part two of Conner's "Nightmare City" novel. It does zip along at a near breakneck pace and is thus a very fast read. The action is described in simple terms, which makes the reader just turn pages as quickly as s/he can. There is no question of Conner's familiarity with Lovecraft and he accesses that world nicely,if only superficially. The steampunk aspects are fun and help the reader enter a world of alternate reality to our own. It is a fun read.I have one bone to pick with the author. Right after he is revived from death, Ravic, the good guy boss, lies in a weakened state. Katya,our hero, decides to have sex with him. There are two problems here. The first is that the scene is, at best, gratuitous and perhaps is there just to please female readers, since Katya had already spurned Ravic's prior advances because he held"all the power". In this scene,she declares that she holds all the power, so that seems to make it okay. Second point, right after the sex is over, Ravic tries to get up, but falls back in agony, too filled with pain and too weak to get up. Just blows the reader's suspension of disbelief all to hell, and, as I said, it is gratuitous and does nothing but interrupt the story.The book is a fun and entertaining read and I do recommend it. It may just introduce them to Lovecraft and/or steampunk and that would be a good thing.