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Mike Carey
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Publisher | Orbit | ||
ISBN | 978-184149655 | ||
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Gareth
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Synopsis
They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he'll tell you there's quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There's only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it's left Castor with blood on his hands. Well, not his hands, you understand; it's always someone else who pays the bill: friends, acquaintances, bystanders. So Castor drowns his guilt in cheap whisky, while an innocent woman lies dead and her daughter comatose, his few remaining friends fear for their lives and there's a demon loose on the streets. But not just any demon - this one rides shotgun on his best friend's soul and can't be expelled without killing him. Looks like Felix Castor's got some tough choices to make, because expel the demon he must or all Hell will break loose. Literally ...
Review
The culmination of the Rafi Ditko storyline -all the Felix Castor novels have been leading to this point.
Normally when a series of novels take this long to culminate it's possible for them to run out of steam, or the author to run out of idea's to keep the pace up. Thankfully, The Naming Of The Beasts is guilty of neither of these. From the cliffhanger of the previous novel, "Thicker Than Water" this novel never looses its roller-coaster like pace, and for once the reader even wonders whether Felix Castor is going to make it out alive!
Cliché as it might sound; this time it is personal, as Castor has to finally face up to his responsibilities with Rafi Ditko -the man possessed by the demon Asmodeus; possessed with Castors help -and this time Castor has no choice but to join forces with those people who, up until recently, have been his sworn enemies.
It's hard to call this book the best in the series, because all the novels in the Felix Castor series have been exceptional. I've enjoyed them all - which for me is rare. I've been extremely lucky to have read them one after another with only a small gap inbetween... I doubt I could have really endured waiting for the next instalments; they're that good.
I knew that Mike Carey was an outstanding writer of comics, but the fact that -like Neil Gaiman - he can write amazing novels heartens me. I can't wait to see what he does next!!!
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