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myweereads's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
“You can find pretty much anything in the Nightside, except happy endings. Gods and monsters run confident tricks, and all desires can be satisfied, if you are willing to pay the price. Which might be money and might be service, but nearly always ends up meaning your soul.”
It has been a few years since I finished this series of books by Simon R Green. With a cast of unique and disturbing characters, the stories from this macabre part of London were always a treat to discover.
In this collection are the first three books featuring private eye John Taylor. He has a gift that allows him to find the most impossible things and being a celebrity for all the wrong reasons in the nightside makes him a constant target.
“Something from the Nightside”, “Agents of Light and Darkness” and “Nightingale’s Lament” are a great introduction to this bizarre world and each feature a case for John to work on. You will come across beings and monsters from all over this world and that which is unknown.
It’s been fun revisiting these books and I can’t wait to read the rest again.
laurla's review
5.0
contains the books "something from the nightside" "agents of light and darkness" and "nightingales lament"
julieputty's review
2.0
Other than an incredibly annoying tendency to stick "in the Nightside" at the end of every other line, Simon Green has constructed an interesting world. I don't find myself able to believe in it, and I don't feel the fascination I think he wants me to feel, but it's interesting.
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