Pratt, T. A. -- Dead Reign [e-book purchase]
Marla Mason goes to Hell. It isn't exciting. The author has a talent
for describing supernatural events in a bland, workaday mode that
fails to bowl me over -- either with the protagonist's reaction or the
sheer special-effects awesomeness of it all. I realize I'm picky about
this sort of thing: I regularly excoriate Simon Green for putting in
special-effects narration that's over-the-top but bad. Richard
Kadrey fell down at the job too. For what it's worth, Kate Griffin
hits it dead-on.
So, there's my prejudices about fantasy writing laid bare, and I think
I'm done with Marla Mason now. (So is the publisher, although the
author is web-publishing sequels. If you enjoyed the first few, go
hunt up the rest, by all means. I see some series arc shaping up --
the second book was about love, the third about death, the teaser for
the fourth implies family.)
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