Mike (the Paladin)'s Reviews > The Jennifer Morgue

The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross

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Jul 19, 10

bookshelves: fantasy, urban-fantasy
Read from July 15 to 16, 2010

*Actually an audio Ebook...it's what I have access to, but then I like audio books.*

So far...not nearly as good as the first one...

And my opinion didn't change. This one wasn't (in my humble opinion) nearly as good as the first one. The first one was obviously intended to be a sort of collision between H.P.Lovecraft and Ian Fleming. This one was to be that also...but Lovecraft's influence has faded to a slight ghost and Fleming is not only here...his work has been slammed into the story, actually added to the plot...along with I'm sorry to say the influence of Danielle Steel or possibly Laurell K. Hamilton...I have a limited knowledge of both bodies of work. We get a female possessed by a succubus who eats the lives of men as she has sex with them having an orgasm at the same time. That way (I assume) you get your sex and violence in a single scene.

I think this book was something like 25% to 50% too long. The story was probably a pretty good idea, but just didn't have the legs for the length it ran here. Still, it wasn't horrible and I may (later) run the newest volume down...but I'm not running right out to find it. Too bad, I really kind of liked the first one.

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