How does it compare to audio works by the same author?
Very good
Advantages:
Very readable, very funny
Disadvantages:
Not many that I can see
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I loved this book. The characters are more fully rounded here, being fleshed-out with little personality tics that both endear them to you and make them easy to identify with. They become almost like old friends.
I really liked the use of fables, folklore and urban myths as a narrative to pin the story to. This is a modern day morality tale, but with better dialogue. Good is good (sometimes - a bit crotchety, a bit judgemental maybe and definately a bit grubby), and bad is very bad all the time, but with a great deal of style and an eye for detail.
A small criticism of this book is that as the main players are very well defined, it can be a bit difficult to make it believable when they act out of character - but that is a very minor niggle. It can be a difficult trick to take characters out of their normal setting without them acting differently, so maybe I'm getting a bit Esmerelda Weatherwax-ish and judging too harshly.... All in all, one of my favourites.
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