After slogging through The Host, I needed something lighter, more throwaway. Â Luckily in my reading pile I had book 8 of the Nightside series by Simon R. Green, The Unnatural Inquirer.
When I tell people about these books the only way I’ve found to describe it is that they are like a book version of a film noir movie set in a city of demons and angels and magic and monsters. Â It is pulp. Â There is no heavy introspection or examination of the human condition. Â John Taylor, the main character, fears no evil when he walks through the valley because he is the baddest mutha in the valley. Â So to speak.
Anyway, this addition to the series is more of the same, which if you like them is a good thing, and if you don’t like them it isn’t.