Daemons Are Forever by Simon R Green
November 25th 2008 22:18
Plot Synopsis:The Drood family is all that stands between Humanity and all the forces of darkness. They were supposed to protect the world, but ended up ruling it. Eddie Drood discovered the lies at the heart of his family, and brought them down. For his sins, they put him in charge: to run the family, and to redeem it.
Eddie feels the need to prove to the world that the Drood family is as strong as it ever was. So he decides to wipe out one of Humanity's greatest enemies, the soul eaters known as the Loathly Ones. But once started on this venture, he discovers that the Loathly Ones are just the forerunners of something far worse; the Many-Angled Ones, the Hungry Gods, descending from a higher dimension to consume every living thing in this world.
Eddie Drood has got his work cut out for him. (net sourced)
After reading the previous Drood novel The Man with the Golden Torc, I had been really looking forward to Simon's latest instalment of the spoof 007. The story continues from where Golden Torc left off with paranormal secret agent Eddie Drood realising he misses his carefree days when he becomes the family patriarch of his snobbish clan, who many of them consider him the enemy. Making matters worse for Eddie is the secret dodgy deals his kin made in WWII with devils, demons and the like to battle the Nazi’s other world horde. And now with the daemons having decided to collect their debt; some from him as the default patriarch and the rest from the world in general as the Hungry Gods make themselves known..
Enlisting his girlfriend the infamous Molly Metcalf, his Cousin Harry’s hellspawn half-brother Roger Morningstar, Mr Stab and Subway Sue, Eddie does his best to save the world from total destruction.
DAEMONS ARE FORVER, the second satirical “James Bond” Drood fantasy (see THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TORC) .
The first Eddie Drood novel was well paced, plotted and funny, a joy to read as you could tell it had some real thought put into it, Daemons are Forever on the other hand was something else entirely and I have to admit was something of a disappointment. Whereas the first book was like a breath of fresh air, this one seemed stale in comparison.
It just didn't have the same wow factor and seemed at times to be by the numbers writing, slow pacing and plotting in places and left you with the feeling of 'Is this it?'
But it was when the character Giles Deathstalker was introduced from the Deathstalker series into the story, I couldn't help feeling the author was being a bit lazy after his usual great cast of fictional historical characters.And the many angled ones, could have been lifted straight from the great 2000AD story Slaine.
Overall, its okay but nothing special and whereas I would have bought the first book, I don't think I would buy this one.
kiwiauthor rating 5/10
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