Fury from the Tomb, S.A. Sidor
Received to review via Netgalley
I loved the idea of this, a pulpy horror story in the tradition of something like The Mummy (not that I’ve seen that film). And honestly, it was quite a lot of fun, in a fast-paced way, with interesting stuff going on with the various mythical stuff brought into the story. It’s fairly tropey and predictable, and the pacing is a bit jerky, but I stuck with it and had a reasonable amount of fun. Not something that I’d recommend unless you really love pulpy Penny Dreadful type stories with mummies and vampires and all kinds of weirdness, but it wasn’t the worst way to spend the time either.
Things that would have made me like it more… more of Evangeline, less of Evangeline being an object of desire for Rom and apparently everyone else; more flesh on the bones of McTroy and what went on in his head; and… some kind of change to Rom’s character. He struck me as stuck up and ignorant in many ways, and the effect was something like Simon Tam from Firefly, except with no willingness to get his hands dirty (except maybe with grave dirt) and no trust of the people around him. Basically, Simon Tam without the good bits.
Aw 2 stars, how disappointing. The pulpy cover gave me such high hopes too 🙁
It did have its fun aspects, but it just… I don’t know. Meh.
Ah, so really properly pulp with all the icky bits? Hmm. That’s a shame!
(also, I love the use of Simon Tam as a comparative. Because once you get past his commitment to his sister he’s… really hard work, right?)
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Yep, there’s some veeery icky bits.
(He’s probably great in his own context! Out of it, he’s hopeless, and he’s not good at adapting.)