The adventure follows along a number of familiar themes in an original
and pleasing manner. I found myself halfway through the book almost
before I realized it. There were a number of things that I expected and
a number of things that took me for a pleasant loop.
The
narration proceeds along at a casual sort of dinner table pace. You can
almost hear it voiced by someone like Stephen Fry or whoever it was
that did the voiceover for the Hitchhiker's Guide movie. While the
narrator is consistently describing things in a calm, matter of fact
manner, such that you can almost see the amused smirk as he describes
the way the story proceeds, you still have a good sense of just how
frantic the characters are in certain scenes. A lot of times when an
author tries for the dry, smirky narration, then the characters
themselves seem to acquire the same sort of calm approach to things.
However, this story very thoroughly portrays Denny and Tamar's
alternating frustrations with each other and the situation as they move
from problem to problem.
There are a number of cliches and
tropes, but they're handled very well, with a liberal amount of
lampshade hanging. Playing with the tropes is a central part of the
books humor actually, and it could be said that Denny has weaponized his
genre savvy even well past the point of being dangerously genre savvy.
And that dovetails in with other elements of the book's story and
setting.
The story is rather reminiscent of Douglas Adams with
the frequent asides and quirky humor, actually. While they don't quite
leave the Earth, except when maybe they do, it still remains a fun sort
of romp through a fantastically farcical world. Right down to the
delightfully irreverent retelling of the Biblical creation that occurs
within the first few pages.
All in all, a very wonderful piece of writing.
The
adventure follows along a number of familiar themes in an original and
pleasing manner. I found myself halfway through the book almost before I
realized it. There were a number of things that I expected and a
number of things that took me for a pleasant loop.
The
narration proceeds along at a casual sort of dinner table pace. You can
almost hear it voiced by someone like Stephen Fry or whoever it was
that did the voiceover for the Hitchhiker's Guide movie. While the
narrator is consistently describing things in a calm, matter of fact
manner, such that you can almost see the amused smirk as he describes
the way the story proceeds, you still have a good sense of just how
frantic the characters are in certain scenes. A lot of times when an
author tries for the dry, smirky narration, then the characters
themselves seem to acquire the same sort of calm approach to things.
However, this story very thoroughly portrays Denny and Tamar's
alternating frustrations with each other and the situation as they move
from problem to problem.
There are a number of cliches and
tropes, but they're handled very well, with a liberal amount of
lampshade hanging. Playing with the tropes is a central part of the
books humor actually, and it could be said that Denny has weaponized his
genre savvy even well past the point of being dangerously genre savvy.
And that dovetails in with other elements of the book's story and
setting.
The story is rather reminiscent of Douglas Adams with
the frequent asides and quirky humor, actually. While they don't quite
leave the Earth, except when maybe they do, it still remains a fun sort
of romp through a fantastically farcical world. Right down to the
delightfully irreverent retelling of the Biblical creation that occurs
within the first few pages.
All in all, a very wonderful piece of writing.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/11463 (unfortunately, as of this writing, it is no longer apparently published at smashwords)
A blog by Luke Garrison Green of Thrythlind Books and Games. Here he discusses writing skills, reviews books, discusses roleplaying games and refers to Divine Blood, Bystander and his other books.
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