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Originally Posted by drjd
Thanks, eschwartz, for the opinion. Actually the reviews available on various websites regarding Simon R. Green and Peter Brett are biased on the praise side and somewhat appear like sponsored type. We might have to wait for the unbiased reviews of other members who actually have read them, before going ahead.  |
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Originally Posted by drjd
Great, thanks DuckieTigger! Well, Alan's opinion is quite enough for me to abandon the Iron Druid series from my TBR. I was just asking more opinions about the Secret Histories by Simon R Green, and the Demon Wars Cycle by Peter Brett.
In fact I'm in process of reducing my scary TBR list of 1400+ books, and any negative opinions about them are more than welcome.  |
What, my opinion isn't good/unbiased enough?
I'll repeat: Simon R. Green's books are awesome and
I liked them a lot. They play around with classic stereotypes in a very fun way. (e.g. the Secret histories books are very like James Bond even down to the titles... until you factor in the magic and super-science and aliens of course. Saving the world ends up being rather more literal!)
"not entirely sure how particularly Dresden-like they are" == "I'm not great at evaluating whether other people will like a specific book just because they liked another specific book". However, I can say that anyone who
likes the type of books I like will like his books.
I promise you, this isn't a sponsored review!
(I
wish I could get paid for mentioning the books I like...)