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Originally Posted by gmw
I'm almost sorry to see the Tom Holt novel in front - but only because I know I will read it anyway. I became a fan of Tom Holt after "Expecting Someone Taller" and "Who's Afraid of Beowulf". I avidly chased up more of his books ... only to find that they didn't quite have the magic of the first two; most of them were good, they just weren't great. So now I am still interested but have less enthusiasm. Maybe "Nothing But Blue Skies" will be a return to top form - here's hoping.
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This is why I voted for it.
"Expecting Someone Taller" is one of my favourite books. I read it when it first came out and it's always a guaranteed comfort read for me. That said I lost track of his books after the first 3 or 4 and came back to them a few years ago. Seeing he'd been very prolific in the mean time I jumped in again more or less at random ("Falling Sideways") and was disappointed. I've since read "Blonde Bombshell" and enjoyed it, re-read "Flying Dutch" and it was also fun. So I'm left with a feeling that Tom Holt books may be good or may be terrible and hence if someone else is proposing one then I'm hopeful it's one of the better ones. If that makes sense.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
And it's not set in the 20's, but in the 70's, a time at least some of us actually remember.
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I could say it's because I remember the 70s that I'd rather not read about it!
That would be an exaggeration. It is true though that being set in a time I don't really know is a bonus. Reading being a view on a different world etc. Whether that "worked" in the case of Whose Body? - well I won't prematurely review it.