Access Location, Location, Damnation (The Brackenford Cycle #1) Developed By Nick Moseley Shown In Version
started this one with high hopes because there was a lot of snark, Then it took a dissapointing segue into dialogue heavy exposition, Like, SO MUCH of exposition,
The exposition thingy also made it hard to connect with the characters, There are no emotional stakes between all these humanoid information repositories people, What characterization we do get is pretty shaky, Trev oscillates between entertainingly terrified Everyman and cocky powerful sonovabitch with little in the way of connecting traits, everyone else is a plot device but props to Louise amp Corbyn for being more entertaining than the rest,
I would have, in complete seriousness, preferred a story about the cutthroat world of real estate sales, It was honestly the best part of the book,
Note: I read this book more than a year ago and I remember absolutely nothing but it turns out my highlights did have pretty succinct reviewadjacent notes so here they are.
This story took a while for me to get into it, I initially thought it was going to be a horror story but happily I turned out to be mistaken, Trev's magical manifestations appear after histh birthday, His grandfather had avoided telling him of this familial quirk as he wasn't sure whether it would bypass Trev or not, As such, Trev is pretty much left to figure out things on the fly, He saves a local businessman from an assassination attempt and then is coerced into investigating who is behind it, It had some nice twists and turns, There's a disapproving spirit and a talking cat, Also ghouls who live in the sewers, There may be an office romance brewing,
It looks like there are at least two more books and a novella to pursue, Really liked it. I had some minor pacing problem at the beginning, and it suffered from being read at the same time as new favorites of mine, but it was still really good and I'm eager to read the rest : So I ran across this book on Goodreads and decided to give it a go.
As the story started I found myself wondering where it was going, The first few chapters maundered a bit as the author built his back story, but I found myself continuing on due to the sarcastic humor and the likable, everyday, down to earth, main character.
As the story wound on it began to pick up speed, each supernatural run in becoming more intense than the last, The sarcastic humor rose in equal measure! There were several laugh out loud moments and I found myself searching for reading time at the end of my busy day to finish this book.
The novel is well written with very few noticeable spelling/grammar issues often found in a self published novel, The story flows nicely after the first few chapters, and wraps up in a satisfying manner that leaves you wanting the next book in the series while pleasantly ruminating on the read.
I highly recommend this book to anyone into the YA/UF genre! Get it and enjoy! I liked it, Might a Little unfair to it since I'm in a book slump and have had trouble picking any book up, but I have been thinking about it while not Reading, and I very much like the MC who is not very likeable.
Very very notlikeable in fact, It is nice to have a MC that is not glorified from the beginning, The plot was a Little thin somethimes I felt, like it was a little to much things that just happened than there was thought through, but I at the same time got the feeling that it was a part of it that it should feel like that.
I'll read the following Novellas and books, I was a bit wary, because juststar reviews on amazon, . . well, looks a bit fake actually,
So having finished it, I thought I would add mine, Alsostars.
It is the start of a very promising set of urban fantasy books,
The lead character is an estate agent called Trev, who
is a bit of a sarcastic git, And he doesn't belive in ghosts either,
Quite fast paced and light hearted, but underneath rather sinister and just a little creepy,
Going to go read the next books now, I loved it!
I want too see Rowan Atkinson play the part of Trevor, And I want to see it tomorrow! Fun read, So I'd had this recommended to me by a few people here on GR so thought i'd check it out, I'd heard some say its like a better Dresden files and such and I love that series aside from the endless repetition per book so thought I was on to a winner.
I was right.
Trev is British, very British and obviously being set in Britain the story is very British too, There's tea drinking, binge drinking and lots of sarcasm, To compare it to Dresden files to me is wrong because Dresden is a serious story with some added comedy, it can get quite dark at times and from this book I'd say Brackenford is more of a light comedy vehicle with added supernatural goodness.
I may be proved wrong in later installments but thats my initial view after the first book,
It was a little slow to start, still funny but the main plot took a while to properly get going.
The one liners are great such as
Is this the point where a giant with a West Country accent walks in and tells me that Im a wizard said Trev
and the characters are well written with a good bit of banter between the good guys and the bad guys are not quite so bad or as clear cut as you may think in all cases.
To me reading this felt more like watching what Buffy would have been like if it had been set in Britain and the slayers were male.
It was a great fun tale which promises more in the series to come, looking forward to starting bookright away, DNF atThis book was hilarious! It wasn't just a wellwritten and well told story, but it made me laugh out loud so many times, I started counting.
Watching Trev grow into his power and become more hero and less zero, was a joy, With his motley crew of allies it will be side splitting fun to follow the future adventures, Totaal niet wat ik verwachtte, Lekker droge Britse humor en een heuse antiheld, Erg leuk. I recently discovered the author so I read this one as book of the month for a group I'm following,
The setting is a modern English town, not too big, but with some legends and inexplicable facts that attract curious people.
The main character is Trevor Irwin but he prefers Trev, a real estate agent, Trev is skeptical of all paranormal phenomena, his life is a struggle against competitors in the ruthless real estate market, small rivalries with colleagues and, at the end of the day, precooked meals at home and beer at the pub.
So far, a quiet life,
One day Trev discovers that there is much more and he finds himself in trouble up to his neck, He discovers he has powers he would never have believed possible and will have to find a balance between his past life and the one that awaits him.
The elements of classic urban fantasy are all there: vampires, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, a secret organization that watches over all this and Trev, passed from skeptic to chosen the short time, armed only with powers that he doesnt understand and a raw and cynical sense of humor.
The story is fun, not just for the main character, definitely the opposite of the hero who accepts his destiny without hesitation.
There are other costars, from colleagues in the office to the Trev family, in addition to new friends he will meet during the chapters .
The transition from a normal working day to a vampire hunting night seems almost natural, without forcing, The description of Trev's Rover and the complicated procedure to set it in motion is exhilarating,
I liked the first book very much, it has a good pace and it's funny, Sure, it's a bit slower in the first part, this is a way to introduce different elements necessary to the plot, but also to show the different communities of supernatural creatures existing in the city.
For mestars. We'll see if the next one keeps this line,
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