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Something from the Nightside: Nightside Series, Book 1
Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside.
I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth, asking me to find her runaway teenage daughter, I didn't say no.
Then I found out exactly where the girl had gone.
The Nightside. That square mile of Hell in the middle of the city, where it's always three A.M. Where you can walk beside myths and drink with monsters. Where nothing is what it seems and everything is possible.
I swore I'd never return. But there's a kid in danger and a woman depending on me. So I have no choice—I'm going home.
I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth, asking me to find her runaway teenage daughter, I didn't say no.
Then I found out exactly where the girl had gone.
The Nightside. That square mile of Hell in the middle of the city, where it's always three A.M. Where you can walk beside myths and drink with monsters. Where nothing is what it seems and everything is possible.
I swore I'd never return. But there's a kid in danger and a woman depending on me. So I have no choice—I'm going home.
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Published January 18, 2022
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Simon R. Green
312 books3,211 followersSimon Richard Green is a British science fiction and fantasy-author. He holds a degree in Modern English and American Literature from the University of Leicester. His first publication was in 1979.
His Deathstalker series is partly a parody of the usual space-opera of the 1950s, told with sovereign disregard of the rules of probability, while being at the same time extremely bloodthirsty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
His Deathstalker series is partly a parody of the usual space-opera of the 1950s, told with sovereign disregard of the rules of probability, while being at the same time extremely bloodthirsty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
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June 20, 2025
I'm a big fan of the Ishamel Jones series by Simon R Green, so I thought I'd give this audiobook a listen. A similar sort of hero, an investigator with a mysterious past who has supernatural abilities.
All in all, a decent book. A short listen, but none of the plot twists are predictable. I didn't give it 4 stars because of the narration and some generic cliches. It was very fast-paced narration, although that might be a choice by the producer in order to match the theme of the book. Quite a few characters are introduced in this book. I think it was worth the credit to purchase the book; however I won't get the next in the series straight away.
All in all, a decent book. A short listen, but none of the plot twists are predictable. I didn't give it 4 stars because of the narration and some generic cliches. It was very fast-paced narration, although that might be a choice by the producer in order to match the theme of the book. Quite a few characters are introduced in this book. I think it was worth the credit to purchase the book; however I won't get the next in the series straight away.
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