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The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

6 reviews

poisoned_icecream's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Ford is a living hitman, and his partner Neuland is undead. When they fail to complete a job, they flee to California. When they reach California, they meet Tilda, who tells them that her great-grandfather wants them to kill a devil that lives in their old house. This was fun and often funny despite some typos and some cringe dialogue. There were also times when I got frustrated at Tilda. I am still looking forward to the sequel and reading more of Ford and Neuland's adventures.

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challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Pleasant and fun. Would read more of this trio!

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2.0

This one was a bore to me. I thought the premise was really good but it didn’t deliver. I did really enjoy the banter between our two leads but this novella doesn’t make good use of its pages.

It’s a haunted story about hunting a demon and we don’t even get a whiff of it until 70% into the book. It tries to place a mystery in but that’s about 10 pages of them realizing what’s happening. No suspense or build.

The villain is such a two-dimensional over the top bad guy that his dialogue seems to unrealistic and wooden. Hard to really place the time period of the story as all the characters seemed to be from a different place/time.

All around, not for me.

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