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gengelcox's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
The eighth Destroyer book, firmly settling down into its formula while at the same time chafing at the limitations of the same. I’ve said before that Remo and Chiun are basically superheroes and unless the villains they are against have powers as great as theirs, there’s no tension in the plot. The villains here are organized crime types—nasty but nothing special—and so the writers have to do something to Remo, similar to how the Superman comic writers had to eventually invent kryptonite. Here, it’s a glancing bullet to the head causing Remo to have amnesia. Yeah, soap opera material. This one hardly rises above its pulp origins.
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