Michael J. Anino

Quirky, goofy, fun

Revisado: 10-23-24

This was a surprisingly great little story.
A human find herself at a new job working in a district of the city filled with aliens and hanging to deal with human and alien problems, including one that's much bigger than it first appears.
Really fun listen, it gives you just enough to figure out where the story is going, but not so much that it's completely predictable all the way through.

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It's fine

Revisado: 01-17-23

Maybe it was the narrator that was not English, but some about how he spent his entire childhood in the rural English countryside.
Maybe it's because I felt the story wasn't exciting until the very end of the story.
Maybe I just got excited about the story and had higher hopes, but this wasn't quite as good as is hoped.
My biggest complaint is the narrator.
He's great, he's a favorite for other novels, but this book is so focused on being in England, and specifically Quaint Village England, that the narrator not having a British accent really hurt the book.

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And Then There Were Psychics

Revisado: 06-04-22

There are elements of this that are very much "And Then There Were None" but with the kind of goofy action adventure of the first book.
At heart this is a mystery with several people being trapped on a boat with a person who has psychic powers threatening them in an undefined way. All they really know is they're all stuck and they're being given information about what's going on one by one, with an occasional death or murder thrown in.
It's very fun, despite all that.
The chapter "narrated" by the FBI Agent from New York is just as good this time as in the previous book.

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It's fine

Revisado: 11-01-21

I really like Simon R Green for his world building.
All the other books of his I've read I've loved because it's a very well developed world, with weird stuff going on JUST outside of where people are looking for it.
This is fine, but not great.
there's a couple spots where I think we're supposed to be surprised that the "answer" was there all along, but I remember it as being spelled out, like a threat earlier in the book, so not really a shock.
I liked the idea, but I could tell where it was going pretty quick. And there wasn't a twist, it was just " Bad people are doing bad things, and they'll keep doing it unless we do them, so let's stop then. oops, maybe violence wasn't the best solution"

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the best

Revisado: 09-25-21

This show can be very dirty, it's very nsfw, but it's very fun, lots of strange facts every week.

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A bit short

Revisado: 05-22-21

I really liked this sorry of "origin" of Moriarty, but I feel it was too short.
I know I didn't pay for a full novel, but still, I'd love more of this sorry of "Reverse Sherlock" that we have here.

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Mostly setup, little payoff

Revisado: 01-28-21

I liked this, and I have part two ready to go, but this by itself isn't really that great but itself.
This has a lot of good setup, and there's a few really good action scenes, but without the second half I would be very disappointed.
I liked the pseudoscience that was present, and the explanation of the various disasters around the world.
I'm looking forward to the second half and a lot more action.

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Fun twist on Holmes

Revisado: 11-03-19

I hope there are more of this series as this is a very introduction to the world, while not yet fully using all the aspects of the world.
I really liked it overall and I like that it wasn't just a simple Sherlock Holmes story and introduced a person that believes himself to be a descendent of what is known to be a fictional character.

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Strange, fun multiverse adventure

Revisado: 04-01-18

I don't like the main character of this book, but he eventually becomes at least slightly likeable.

This novel is presented as a series of emails, and the guy starts it as a bit if a jerk who just kid if stumbles into a huge discovery abd then gets progressively likeable over the course of the book. But it's almost like he becomes likeable by accident? Like I can't tell if he actually learned anything about his relationship with his ex, the person to whom he's writing all these emails.
He just kind of assumes that she'll understand and help. And it's never addressed as like this is his coping mechanism, it's always just that he's writing thousands of emails to someone who he admits has every right to punch him.

But, character dislike aside the book is pretty fun.
All the supporting characters are pretty great.
I kind of wish there were more adventures in other worlds, but they'd like five universes at least in this one, so it's fine.
I already have the next book in the series, so I'm going to read at least these first two books. I just wish I liked the main character more. Well see if he improves in the next book.

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Still a fun series

Revisado: 08-11-17

This is a really goofy series and I really like it.

That's a lit going on and there's a couple of hiests (which I think is where this series shines) and there a bunch of weird magic stuff (which is also very well done, especially when it's particularly silly) and there's still a relatively strong sense of "if the protagonist doesn't do something, the bad guy weeks". it's not necessarily a sense of narrative tension, it's all a little too goofy for that, but it's still there.

The plot is a little hard to describe, there's a mummy and there's a bunch of rich kids that are wannabe animal rights activists and there's a crooked car salesman and there's an elephant and then there's another plot against the protagonist all together.

At times it's a little hard to connect all the plots and remember what's going on. The stuff in the basement is generally pretty funny, but gets a little odd by the end, like I kind of forgot exactly why the stuff that was happening to them was happening. And it takes a long time for the animal rights stuff to pay off, and it's not a big good ultimately, just another hitch in the road for the crew.

I really like the doctor that's a ghost cat that's a robot, that's a great thing. That's the kind of thing I look for in books, something that is nearly indescribable and also is exactly what it sounds like.

Overall I liked it. I don't think it's quite as good as The Everything Box, but it holds its own and it's a fun book.

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