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A terrific blend of tongue-in-cheek humor, pulp mystery and 50's horror/sci-fi tribute. Suffice to say, the story takes more twists and turns than an eel on steroids before finally reaching a satisfying resolution. The finale, while in a very raymond ... Read More
Justin robinson turns the tired cliches of the detective story into something fun and altogether unique. Robinson deals with the night war events as backstory known to the narrator and presumably his listeners, therefore cleverly avoiding the necessit... Read More
City of devils is the first of justin robinson's books that i've read and i have to say that it is so far my favorite! Justin's prose has the perfect hard-boiled brilliance of all good noir writing, with nods to hammett and chandler and leonard throug... Read More
Highlights
Quality
One of my favorite characters in this novel has a pumpkin for a head, and a very special relationship with the protagonist.
After surviving world war 2, he found himself at war with the monsters.
Packaging/appearance
The night war led the the monsters overtaking everything.
Competitiveness
Thank you for relief from the real world!
These are werewolves, mummies, fishmen and phantoms unlike any you've see before.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 51 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 14 2022.
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I laughed through out the book and would often stop to read passages out loud to my wife
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Lovecraft and universal monsters as to dashiell hammett raymond chandler or walter mosley you might think of this as a worthy literary successor to the criminally underrated cast a deadly spell
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As with a lot of the best science fictionfantasy there is a good deal of metaphoricalallegorical social commentary but its never heavy handed think later original star trek or gets in the way of whats a very funny tale that never takes itself too seriously
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City of devils reads like a fun b movie romp
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Written tongueincheek much like his earlier novel mr
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Along comes mary who is a human pretending to be a monster pretending to be a human
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What i didnt like that everyone and i mean everyone was trying to turn nick
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Theres a part of me that wants to move to this magical city of devils justin so vividly describes in his novel
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