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Night Fall
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Moonbreaker comes the epic final Secret Histories adventure, where the Droods will take on the most unexpected of enemies: the inhabitants of the Nightside.
The Droods are all about control, making people do what they're told for the greater good. The Nightside is all about choice: good and bad and everything in between. The Droods want to make the world behave. The Nightside wants to party. They were never going to get along.
For centuries, ancient Pacts have kept the Droods out of the Nightside, but now the Droods see the Nightside as a threat to the whole world. They march into the long night, in their armour, to put it under their control. All too soon, the two sides are at war. It's Eddie Drood and Molly Metcalf against John Taylor and Shotgun Suzie. The Drood Sarjeant-at-Arms and their Armourer against Dead Boy and Razor Eddie. More groups join in: the London Knights, the Ghost Finders, the Spawn of Frankenstein, Shadows Fall, and the Soulhunters. Science and magic are running wild, there's blood running in the gutters, and the bodies are piling up.
Is anyone going to get out of this alive?
The Droods are all about control, making people do what they're told for the greater good. The Nightside is all about choice: good and bad and everything in between. The Droods want to make the world behave. The Nightside wants to party. They were never going to get along.
For centuries, ancient Pacts have kept the Droods out of the Nightside, but now the Droods see the Nightside as a threat to the whole world. They march into the long night, in their armour, to put it under their control. All too soon, the two sides are at war. It's Eddie Drood and Molly Metcalf against John Taylor and Shotgun Suzie. The Drood Sarjeant-at-Arms and their Armourer against Dead Boy and Razor Eddie. More groups join in: the London Knights, the Ghost Finders, the Spawn of Frankenstein, Shadows Fall, and the Soulhunters. Science and magic are running wild, there's blood running in the gutters, and the bodies are piling up.
Is anyone going to get out of this alive?
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Thelonebassman
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Scott Magill
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“The biggest disappointment of any series I’ve read this year, possibly ever. (I mean I couldn’t even finish The Dresden Files so maybe that’s hyperbolic.)
I loved the Nightside and all its shades of grey. It introduced me to the urban fantasy genre. So of course I’m bias toward their side of the conflict. I didn’t love the Drood family and the secret histories series as much. Still I thought they were at least often trying to find a balance between their messy beginnings and being the force for good they aspired to be.
This novel ruined a lot of what I liked about both series though. It felt like none of the characters were as clever as they were built up to be in previous stories. I suspect Green just wanted to kill off as much of the Nightside as possible because he didn’t want to revisit that world anymore. Though the Droods suffered losses too, many of the characters weren’t as fleshed out as the Nightside ones. Most of the characters who died on the Drood’s side either were introduced in the battle they died in or got so little time in previous stories as to be strangers.
The worst part was the complete lack of urgency from Eddie Drood. We’ve spent several books talking about how if the family got bad enough he’d come back in and take over again to save it from itself. But this was the worst they’ve ever been and it feels like he’s wasting time for most of the book. His family has gone full on Germany in WW2 on the Nightside, deciding anything different must be destroyed. I don’t think that’s an overdramatized comparison they’re clearly in the wrong from the very beginning. Most disappointing for me though was Molly in this story. She’s almost a non-character. Standing by Eddie’s side while his family destroys and kills so many people feels like the ultimate sign that she was never her own person just an accessory to further separate Eddie from his family in previous novels.”
Kas the Librarian
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