Paranormal
Simon R Green writes novels with lots of blood and guts and
Ghost of a Chance is no exception.
The book starts. “Everyone knows there are bad places in the
world.” This first Ghost Finders
Novel has two institutes that send teams out to handle bad places when they
appear.
Our heroes’ work for the Carnacki Institute and are the good
guys. They only work to shut down
bad places. The opposition works
for the Crowlely Project. They
really don’t care about protecting humanity; they just want to amass knowledge
and power for their own use.
The team from the Carnacki Institute consists of:
JC Chance– He is an over the top very confident, extremely good-looking
male who is the leader of the team.
Melody Chamber – Her main concern is with the machines that
pinpoint where and what the bad things are.
Happy Jack Palmer – A telepath who is never happy and spends
his days popping pills to help keep the voices at bay.
At the end of the book there is a surprising new member.
They are not an “A” team but when a big bad shows up in the
London Underground they are all that is available. A two-man team from the Crowlely Project is tasked with
taking JC and his team out and shows up in the underground at the same
time.
This is a set up for a lot of blood and guts, unexpected
alliances and a win in the end.
Everything about this is over the top. I could never see this as a movie but
it would make a great comic strip with characters drawn like the Dick Tracy
strip of old. I thought it was a fun book to read but not one to take
seriously.
This is our Science Fiction Book Club book this month. I wrote this before the meeting and am
adding the thought of the group after we met.
Group thoughts on the book:
There were two thumbs up on the book and 7 thumbs down. Only two of us liked the book. Everyone else said they were tempted to
put it down unfinished and would have if it had not been a Book Club selection.
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