Hex and the City

Nightside Series, Book 4

De: Simon R. Green

Narrado por: Dan Calley

John Taylor is the name. I work the Nightside. Only in that dark heart of London where it's always three A.M., where human and inhuman can feed their darkest desires, do I feel at home. Probably because I was born there.

What I do is find things-people, objects-and in this case, the truth about the origins of the Nightside.

That's what Lady Luck has hired me to investigate. But the more I dig, the more I discover, not about the Nightside but about the great question in my life: exactly who-and what-was my long-vanished mother.

Paying jobs are one thing. Personal quests are another. And I've been warned that uncovering the facts about dear old mum could be a very bad thing, not just for the Nightside but for all of existence.

Still I can't stop . . . I'm John Taylor. Finding things is who I am. It's what I do. Whatever the consequences . . .

©2005 Simon R. Green (P)2022 Tantor

best in series

extraordinarily creative, unpredictable, great characters. love it, I think it's the best so far.. looking forward

What will happen next?

I love how this book ended!
What will come next?

Love the characters introduced in this book!
Off to the next book 😃

Ramp up

This book is a great ramp up for the next couple books in this series. I’ve always loved the nature of the night side

Slow moving, needless filler

“What brought you to the Nightside in the first place?”
“I came for the glorious sunsets.”
“But … it’s always night here.”
“I was misinformed.”
This is an entirely skippable installment in the six book arc. Yes, John’s mother is revealed.
But, there’s enough recapped in the next book. And, so much makes no sense, starting with the
basic premise of John blithely deciding to discover Nightside’s origins and heedless of warnings,
then including the weird mishmash of Arthurian legends with Heaven and Hell lore,
and ending with the head scratcher of why everyone hid the truth of John’s mother.

“When there is nothing left but to die: die well.”
There’s no Deadboy, no Razor Eddie and barely any Shotgun Suzie. The only part I liked was the love story between Sinner and his succubus, Pretty Poison. I much prefer the standalone mystery procedural books to the oversold, and slow moving, armaggedon plot.